Eckhart Tolle, in Chapter 6 asserts that people should live their lives and create happiness at their present moment, without considering their material possessions. In this chapter, Tolle cautions the consciousness of the readers. Tolle explains that once an individual ceases to identify his or her pain, the pain is transmuted, meaning that the individual no longer experiences the pain (Tolle 178). Emotional pain is more dangerous than the natural pain, and thus individuals should learn to avoid the situations that trigger emotions in themselves. When the human body is exposed to excess pain, it reaches a point where the body adapts the pain, and cannot react to the pain any longer. Tolle encourages the readers to set their bodies free from both the emotional and natural pain (Tolle 180).
According to Tolle, pain-body can be inherited from parents to the children. Parents should learn to avoid condemning their children after the children do a wrong. In life self-instilled pain and hunger are of no benefit to the lives of individuals. Edward Field asserts that when an in individual is in pain or hunger, the person cannot enjoy life. Edward explains that when people are in pain they fail to realize when enjoying the brightness of the day. People who live with hunger are often in conflicts with other people because of their hostility. In chapter six, Tolle explains that the best way of responding to situations while in anger is through silence. Edward encourages the readers that when an individual is in anger, the person should not engage in violent activities (Field 319). The favorite incident in the story is when the person in the train solved his anger through shedding tears. After crying, the man who was earlier filled with anger was relieved. The readers are advised to learn on how to solve their personal issues to so than they can live happily.
Works Cited
Field, Edward. A Geography of poets: an anthology of the new poetry. New York: Bantam Books, 1979. Print.
Tolle, Eckhart. A new earth: awakening to your life's purpose. New York: Plume, 2006. Print.
