Why does eckhart tolle charge so much

In this short and straightforward read, Eckhart Tolle teaches readers the value of embracing stillness and silence and how doing so contributes to a more profound inner peace and a greater understanding of ourselves. With practical application to any reader's life, this book is beloved for its simplicity. This read focuses on our relationships with our pets and how being spiritually close to our animals guides us to a higher peace.

This book is an artistic companion to " A New Earth ," taking the most important pieces of the bestseller so readers can focus on the key phrases and concepts Tolle believes are most essential. Inspirational and comforting, this format brings powerful quotes and deep messages to the forefront for readers.

Recorded at a five-day spiritual retreat, this book continues upon Eckhart Tolle's philosophies presented in " The Power of Now " and offers a practical and soothing guide to help readers continue living his philosophy.

Recognizing that it's easy to forget the power of spirituality, Tolle encourages readers to create consistent habits and prioritize living in the now. This book is a collection of the talks Eckhart Tolle gave during a two-day retreat in Findhorn, Scotland. Tolle guides readers to find spiritual peace by living in the present moment by focusing on the power of stillness and silence. Considered a perfect introduction to Tolle's philosophies, this is a short listen known for being both insightful and funny.

This is an interview with Eckhart Tolle from September 11, Listen to "The Art of Presence," available for free with Audible trial. Recorded from a six-session spiritual retreat, " The Art of Presence " is a calming and light-hearted philosophical listen about the unified consciousness between us and the present moment. In these talks, Eckhart Tolle discusses the degrees of presence and absence — and how each one has a powerful role in our peace.

In this story, Milton stops going to the playground because he's being bullied and uses Tolle's philosophy to overcome his fears. In this spiritual talk, Eckhart Tolle introduces the idea of "absolute importance" or the deeper purpose of our lives. Pairing this idea with his concepts from "The Power of Now," Tolle encourages readers to embrace a "collective evolution" towards an enlightened and peaceful society.

With his gentle voice, Eckhart Tolle encourages readers to take a deep dive into understanding themselves better and reaching spiritual enlightenment.

Listen to "Gateways to Now," available for free with Audible trial. In this audiobook, Eckhart Tolle teaches readers how to let go of the past so they can effectively live in the present. He guides them through three gateways: The Gateway of the Inner Body, the Gateway of Silence, and the Gateway of Accepting This Moment to transform their lives and reach internal peace. In this audiobook, Eckhart Tolle introduces the "pain-body," the state of being where we are attached to our pain and fears, a state which we must overcome in order to achieve an enlightened state.

With Tolle's signature calming voice and accessible teaching style, readers can find a meaningful message in this self-help book. Listen to "Entering the Now," available for free with Audible trial. In this addition to the " Power of Now " series, Eckhart Tolle uses a step-by-step style to help readers embrace creativity, independence, and peace.

He uses both practical and abstract exercises to encourage readers through their spiritual journeys. Listen to "The Realization of Being," available for free with Audible trial. In this talk, Tolle guides readers through the process of meditation so they can find joy and meaning in the stillness.

In this guided self-help audiobook, Eckhart Tolle teaches listeners how to refocus their energy to redefine alertness and be present with their whole selves. In " Through the Open Door ," he guides readers to spiritual enlightenment by way of a higher "aliveness.

In this talk from his " The Power of Now " series, Tolle summarizes his philosophies about our fears and pain that hold us back from enlightenment. Using his trademark intellectual approach and calming tone of voice, Tolle aims to help listeners identify their negative behavioral patterns and break them in order to reach inner peace. Sign up for Insider Reviews' weekly newsletter for more buying advice and great deals. You can purchase syndication rights to this story here.

Disclosure: Written and researched by the Insider Reviews team. We highlight products and services you might find interesting. There is no substitute for being in the presence of a teacher. Direct oral teachings resonate deeply. Are they obedient to the will of those who run their foundations and business enterprises? Eckhart Tolle has established a huge worldwide commercial enterprise through his business company, Eckhart Teachings.

It is surely appropriate to question whether his growing personal wealth, and his desire for more, is compatible with his spiritual teachings. Eckhart would receive a percentage probably around 7.

Some Eckhart Tolle fans will defend these substantial charges. Concerts and sports events cost much the same amount of money for the same amount of time so why should not a spiritual superstar charge top prices for admission? There is a difference.

And it is a big difference. Entertainers and sports stars do not offer spiritual teachings on letting go, dropping desire, living without attachment, trusting in the now and enlightenment. So they tried to suppress desire by having no possessions. The true renunciation is about attachment to which operates on an inner level.

It is the inner that matters. Mr Tolle lacks the experience and understanding of men and women living a life of intentional renunciation or a complete lack of interest in materialism. Monks, nuns, sadhus, swamis, spiritual communities, spiritual seekers, meditators and more explore a different way of life. As a former Buddhist monk in the East, I would suggest Mr. Tolle spends some time in a monastery to experience such a way of life. In my experience as a monk, there are very few ordained who suppress desires.

Is Eckhart Tolle honestly trying to claim that he has renounced desire while desiring to charge exorbitant tuition fees to listen to him? Some of those renunciates in religious traditions, who have little or no possessions, include such Buddhist monks as the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thich Nhat Hahn, the fourth most popular spiritual teacher in the Watkins Bookshop list.

Another renunciate from the Christian tradition, Pope Francis chooses to live in simple rooms in the Vatican. In A New Earth page 46 , Eckhart writes about the problem of the ego. It is an addictive need…. Fine words, Mr. Do you really need to own so much money? Why do you still want to make even more money?

Is this what I have been doing? Once you see what you have been doing or are doing, you also see its futility and the unconscious pattern, then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change. If the thought of such transparency is too difficult for you to handle, then I have a small suggestion. You are very wealthy. From now on, please offer all or many of your public talks and retreats on the basis of dana a Pali word meaning the act of giving , the offering of a donation and minimise the price of your books, cards, calendars etc.

Your wealthy devotees will still give you a generous reward for your fine teachings. The Buddha spoke frequently of the power of dana. Dana covers many aspects of the inner life:. Your teachings have given much support to the spiritual journey of your followers. You deservedly receive a lot of goodwill from people. You can make a contribution towards developing trust in spiritual teachers and their teachings. Your practise of dana would dispel the growing widespread disillusionment with spiritual teachers who accumulate vast sums of money.

This is not a hair-shirt philosophy but an act of kindness and support for all regardless of their financial status. If you developed trust in dana, you would show to yourself and your followers the power of now to let go of old desires. I am sure you would agree. Note to Readers.

This is a critique of the fusion of spirituality with accumulation of immense wealth. There is no intention to deter readers from listening to Eckhart Tolle on YouTube or reading his books. I wrote the blog in The global pandemic has currently blocked the opportunity for all, regardless of income, to attend public events of spiritual teachers, and others. The wealthy and the poor unite on YouTube.

Eckhart Tolle along with Sadhguru helped me a considerable amount when I needed it the most. But when I discovered how much money these two teachers were making it added a dimension of doubt in everything they said.

Always in the back of my mind there was the thought asking if they were genuine or con artists. If they charged donations I would not care how wealthy they were. But because they have a charge for spiritual teaching and they are pretty significant charges it adds the element that for them enlightenment is only for the wealthy which makes them no different to all the money hungry capitalists charging heaps for low quality products. Love and Enlightenment to ALL. The most important thing to ask is not if someone who is spiritual is going on the rich man list or not.

The main thing to ask is how many corrupt people , people who have shit loads of black money or other assets, or people who have earned money through harming other innocent people like you , by feeding them sugars, tobacco, medicines, calories, addictive substances like ajinomoto which are present in your kfc burgers btw and what not.

How many of these people are on the rich man list? Good people, who are genuinely capable of making conscious change should be empowered. Should be rich. Should have the power to do so. Because mr. The world need conscious rich people right now who have the ability to make change. Christopher, the money is going to be there you can do what ever you want.

But it will exist. So better it goes into the pockets of some conscious monk like you or Eckhart. Better not go to unconscious destructive people. My Thought process and judgements became loud and clear. Now I am far from a Saint but as more time went by I ended up on Youtube one night and there was Eckhart talking about his Panic Attacks, horrible Night fears, his upbringing and It suddenly occured to me that I was Spiritualy lead to this Man.

I focused on his Experiences and Changes as well and than was led Spiritually to yet another YouTube Teacher whom seemed to show me the New growth I had been experiencing and so on. I also experienced a couple times where I was in such deep mediation that Inliterally lost a whole day and last remembered Meditating before I snapped out of it and had no sense of day or time but quickly ran to my Phone and Clock to see the date and time of day.

Than I learned they call that a Spiritual Ascension. Than Instarted getting turned off by certain foods and became physically Ill and that is called Ascension Flu. I Am Teresa. I Am a Housekeeper now Retired. I Am a Mom. I Am a Dog owner. Lots of Love and Light. I am going to give a very subjective opinion about Tolle so I apologize. He grew up in a time when he should have been a disciple of Watts or Dass but he never mentions them.

As far as I know.? He definitely has the potential to awaken people because he exports the dharmic teachings. I think his efforts are on the whole good but yet I still feel he himself comes across as an unabashed capitalist and cult leaderesque. Maybe because he looks like Linus from lost. Anyway, the world is probably better for his book in it.

As far superior. Thank you very much Justin. I have a similar view as yours. I have a few books of his, and probably have watched all his free YouTube videos, and they have helped a lot. And this article show just about how much wealth he has, and perhaps how unethical all this is. I get that all needs to be making a living. But unless he is building some sort of non profit center to enlighten the planet, just goes in his bank account. Due to all this. Quite enjoyable as well.

He got me the closest to the truth. But this money thing is always going to be in my mind. And in a way, I chosen to take this as a practice in itself. Perhaps he is collecting all those millions to eventually build enlightenment centers around the world, where you can attend his readings for free?

One can only hope. Anywho, I just wanted to take the time to thank you for suggesting Ram Dass, as I never heard of him. Plus, on his. And downloadable. Again, all needs to make a living. Ram Dass way of doing things should be the way for any enlightenment teachers to follow. People that appreciate you, will give you money, and buy extra stuff from you, to thank you and show appreciation. Plus, hey, he is seen as a religious entity for tax purposes. Meaning no taxes to pay on all those millions?

Hey, I still love you Mr. But, unless you have some secret plans to free the world somehow, please consider going inside, and show us that you are also practicing your own teachings. Obviously some have an ego they have not confronted, it is not Mr. Keep safe! Challenge the concept that being wealthy means accumulating money and lots of possessions. I think the future of homo sapiens and the beautiful planet we are privileged to be part of depends on it.

Thank you for all your comments over several years. This might be the first time I have written a comment. I have received a full range of appreciations and criticisms of my concerns about spirituality and accumulation of immense wealth. Thank you for taking the time to write. I still agree with Jesus, who stated this on more than one occasion. May the teachings of Eckhart Tolle continue to be beneficial and insightful. May all being understand the inter-dependence of the past, the present and the future May all beings understand the timeless — unbound to past, the now and future.

The Red Cross once experimenting give out money instead of food in a famine. He talked about it in terms of referring to suffering and completely missed the introduction to that passage where Jesus says that anyone who listens to his words the sermon on the mount that preceeds and does them, is like the wise man.

The great irony is that the passage immediately before is about false teachers and is directly connected to the one which Tolle taught on. He completely exposed his ignorance and arrogance in bringing his own off the wall interpretation. But then the essence of his teaching, so common to New Age philosophy, is the power of self, and that you can be like god — without him. Tolle so ironically ignores this when he expounded Matthew chapter Whether or not Tolle is rich us largely immaterial, it is the love of money which is the root of evil, not money itself.

However, Jesus teachings about false teachers were given as warnings so that we could judge by truth and not be seduced. It is tragic that so many of his followers are completely blind to his dead-end and self-centred path of so called enlightenment. It is directly opposed to the Christian teaching that he claims to understand. You talk about his arrogance, but your irritatingly pompous comment reeks of arrogance.

He does not teach that you can become like God without him. Not at all. You totally and completely missed it. He teaches that you can become a fully functioning, creative, powerful, centered, peaceful human being ONLY by depending on God, and that any other way you will always fail and suffer.

Tolle claims to never really study religion and I find this claim credible, but I have a doubt that his psychological transformation was a authentic and b from God. The type of transformation Jesus speaks of many times when he speaks of persons being resurrected. Eckahart Tolle seems to have been genuinely resurrected from being spiritually dead to being spiritually alive, and furthermore he describes this process in a personal experiential manner in his books.

Because in the end this really seems to be more psychological than spiritual—although, obviously, there is no real separation between the two. Tolle as being very spiritually deep despite his resurrection , but I do regard him as being practically perfectly sane. Along the lines, I agree with Mr. He is one man reaching millions of people. With all the problems in the world, you focus on him who is guiding millions.

Jealousy is not peace within. You spend time to do research on him. All to make yourself look better than him by quoting the bible and making yourself look aligned by it. I can see through your intent. Actually causing conflict. Practice what you preach and find peace within and look at all the simple things in life.

Find more peace and you will focus on what is already right in front of you. It creates a subtle distortion of truth.

In truth there is this infinite universe of limitless love and truth. Yet we live on a finite planet with finite resources there is enough to sustain us but not for each person to accumulate excess. This is obvious and readily apparent. The planet requires that we live in harmony with its natural cycles of production and regeneration. After all its your story about how spirituality should look like that tells you that being spiritual has nothing to do with money.

Where is the proof for that? If there is no seperation, only one life and one conciousness than making money is certainly a part of it. Only an unexamined story about reality could keep me from seeing that. And that hurts. Post by anne » Fri May 29, am As mentioned, there is another location where this topic is covered and by the number of responses there, it is surely a topic that attracts a lot of interest!

Clearly you don't have much time for Tolle's work in A New Earth and don't see the value of other products such as the recordings. For myself and others, these have been wonderful and also very non-essential. As Tolle says, only the teachings of Power of Now are really needed to provide some pointers. He surely could have marketed this differently and pushed all his prodeucts as being necessary, yet he didn't. How can you know where someone else's money is or is not utilised?

Post by Grautgramsen » Fri May 29, am OneLove wrote: How do non-dual teachers like Eckhart justify their outrageous business efforts.

It just seems grossly hypocritical for an "enlightened" teacher to be so greedy. If he's truly egoless and enlightened why doesn't he do all his work and teachings pro bono, charge to cover publishing costs etc He has a seemingly endless line of products.

He's done so much, why doesn't he just retire? He's made enough money to do that and he's certainly made enough media to enlighten the planet. His actions seem to mirror an egoic corporation exactly, continuously producing different products to convince the customer that theres always more and that he might be missing out.

You might say that this issue is completely separate from the truth of his teachings, and maybe thats true. Since ET is dispensing radical life advise to the whole world and our group here in particular seems to be taking it especially to the heart, we should really make sure that the source of this advice is legitimate. By legitimate I mean not a lie. This issue can only be remedied by facts. Facts showing that the enormous amounts of revenue that ET is acquiring are going towards helping humanity rather than ET's wallet,.

As far as books, vidoes cd's etc. His teaching should help humanity?