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February 2009 
What gets in the way of us connecting with others?
Diana
For those of you not familiar with Eckhart Tolle here's the best and suitable explanation about the "pain body" I found on the web:
"First, there is the field of complete consciousness.
This then expresses itself in an organic form.
From here it loses itself in organizing the physical environment around it.
It begins to split into mind, and mind then splits into ego, and ego then believes itself the origin of consciousness.
As ego, arising from thoughts of limitations, fractures itself against obstacles, it develops what Eckhart Tolle calls the pain-body.
The pain-body then becomes an unconscious entity within. It seeks to feed on pain to survive. It makes a person feel pain and it causes this person to inflict pain on others."
Source: Saleem Rana - Reflections On Eckhart Tolle's Concept Of The Pain-Body
What follows next to that is that you start labelling everything as good and bad, as right or wrong ... and you continue feeding your ego with "how right you are about what you think" and how bad and/or wrong the other person is ...
Well, living in this daily battle with our "pain body" is for me the main reason why we have trouble connecting with others.
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thank you for this resumé which is clear and helpful.
N.
You're welcome. Glad it could be of use :-)
Make sure to check out other Saleem Rana articles … this guy is quite interesting…
P.S. Oh, and welcome to Gaia!!! May you find waht you need to “clean your lenses” ;-)
Diana
yes! William Blake talked about this too…the idea we need not choose good over evil, mind over body, etc…he said to unify…not to choose….no duality….
and that was in the 18th century!
:)
Thank you Diana, :)
I will have a look at his articles.
N.
Thank you Aley, … wow, in th e18th century people new already the answer and we are still doing it the way we are? Frightening, isn't it? Sometimes I ask myself if we are really as intelligent as we think we are ;-)
Yup, if we only realized we revisit the same questions year upon year and think we are the ones who “found it” LOL…but sometimes, we reword it and it sounds easier to grasp!
:)