What do you guys think of the teachings of eckhart tolle? He has gained some major popularity in North American culture as of late (he has his own T.V. channel, like Oprah 
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Eckhart Tolle
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I am not looking for syncretism but an intelligent assement of his teachings from an Orthodox perspective for those who are aware of what he teaches, i am not one of those. I try to keep on top of being "in the know" of what is going on in the religious landscape around me.
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From what I have read from his book he seems like Secular Zen Buddhism lite. My take anyways.
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he seems New Agey, combining philosophies and religions in to one big ecumenical stew.
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It's phonetic.
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He seems to want to unite God and man, which is good. But he refuses to acknowledge what God Himself did to unite Himself to mankind. He also seems to believe in ridding oneself of one's "self". In Orthodoxy, there is nothing wrong with "self". Rather, it is the exaltation of the self that is the problem. We believe in denying the self, but not in eliminating it. Orthodoxy teaches a true union of selves.
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From wikipedia:
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According to a 2009 article in the New York Times, Tolle is "not identified with any religion, but uses teachings from Zen Buddhism, Sufism, Hinduism and the Bible".[6] Tolle has said "I feel actually that the work I do is a coming together of the teaching 'stream', if you want to call it that, of [Jiddu] Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi".[9] Tolle himself has mentioned texts such as the Tao Te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita and other Hindu scriptures, the Buddhist scriptures, the Old Testament, the New Testament, and A Course in Miracles; he has mentioned various individuals such as Zoroaster, Lao Tzu, Mahavira, Siddhārtha Gautama, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Jesus, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Rumi, Meister Eckhart, Hafiz, Rinzai Gigen, Ralph Waldo Emerson; and he has emphasised the mystical schools within religions such as Gnosticism in Christianity, Sufism in Islam, Hasidism and Kabbala in Judaism, Advaita Vedanta in Hinduism, and Zen and Dzogchen in Buddhism. He has met and spoken with Barry Long and Don Miguel Ruiz, and he wrote a foreword for The Diamond in Your Pocket by Gangaji.[3][9][12][20][26][40]
Where do you begin an intelligent discussion on such a syncretistic mess? As I said syncretism is incompatible with Orthodoxy.
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yeah, he reminds me of Deepak Chopra. you can't have a discussion with guys like that because they mostly don't have anything solid to come from. they pick and chose their spirituality from wherever they can.
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