Radish you nailed it! I knew I could not be the only Non Sequitur fan who also reads and listens to Eckhart Tolle. “Eckert”is for Eckhart.
He teaches what most people would recognize as the Buddhist approach to being in the world, part of which is that our thoughts have no lasting reality, and negative thoughts in particular keep us from focusing on the present and understanding our true nature.
He might also say that negative thoughts actually make us very unhappy, and keep us in a state where we cannot truly enjoy anything in our lives. Buddhist masters all teach that learning to release and not “feed” destructive thoughts and habitually negative thought patterns is an important step to enlightenment.
Radish you nailed it! I knew I could not be the only Non Sequitur fan who also reads and listens to Eckhart Tolle. “Eckert”is for Eckhart.
He teaches what most people would recognize as the Buddhist approach to being in the world, part of which is that our thoughts have no lasting reality, and negative thoughts in particular keep us from focusing on the present and understanding our true nature.
He might also say that negative thoughts actually make us very unhappy, and keep us in a state where we cannot truly enjoy anything in our lives. Buddhist masters all teach that learning to release and not “feed” destructive thoughts and habitually negative thought patterns is an important step to enlightenment.