Shadowing Practice: Freedom Through Thoughtlessness | Eckhart Tolle on The Space Beyond Thought (Part 3) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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When we use thoughtlessness, it has a very positive meaning.
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You've risen above thought.
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The way it's used in normal culture is,
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you've fallen below thought, and you don't know what you're doing.
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This spaciousness, this inner spaciousness,
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can be there at any time in your daily life.
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You bring in until it becomes permanent in the background of your being so that no matter what you do,
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and even while you're thinking,
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there's still something you sense that's deeper than thinking.
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So you're no longer lost in thinking.
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In other words,
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you are not the slave of the mind anymore.
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You're not possessed by that entity anymore.
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And then it functions beautifully.
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Being here should help you to grow in,
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as I sometimes call it,
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presence power, so that this presence arises through you,
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in you, so in your daily life,
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you can suddenly enter a state of spacious awareness in between two actions, for example.
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walking from here to there,
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picking something up, looking out of the window.
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Five seconds of alert, spacious awareness as you're looking at the clouds.
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Instead of looking out of the window and having some kind of commentary about what you're looking at.
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Not another rainy day.
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You don't need that.
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And even what beautiful sunshine,
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you can go beyond that too and just spacious awareness.
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Five minutes, five seconds looking out of the window.
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getting dressed while you put on your shoes.
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Just be the alert presence instead of projecting yourself mentally to some future moment.
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And as I said before,
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whenever you're waiting for something,
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a wonderful opportunity for entering that, go into the body.
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That can very easily take you there or pay attention to sense perceptions and feel as you pay attention to sense perceptions.
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Feel the presence without which there would be no sense perceptions.
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You can do that now.
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So there's what you see and what you hear.
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These are the two predominant sense perceptions here.
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There's what you see and what you hear.
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That makes up what I call it,
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as you might know, the surface of the present moment.
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All the sense perceptions of the surface of the present moment changes all the time.
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and then there is the depths of the present moment that does not change,
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the now that is forever here, totally timeless.
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That is your presence, that space.
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So you are what arises,
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and more fundamentally you are the space in
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which it arises ultimately they're not separate
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but we don't know to go into then you are the space for whatever arises in that space of consciousness
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So content, I call it.
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There's content.
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The content of your consciousness is sense perceptions.
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Seeing, hearing, smelling, touching.
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The content of your consciousness is thoughts.
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The content of your consciousness is emotions.
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Those are basically your life consists of,
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put these into a pot,
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sense perceptions, thoughts and emotions stir.
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Add a little bit of cayenne pepper.
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That's the drama.
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And whatever else other spices that you want to add.
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But basically, that is your life.
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The life which changes, your life is different from your life and your life and your life.
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They're all different lives in different worlds.
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But basically, the basic ingredients of your life and whatever your life situation is are sense perceptions,
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thoughts, and emotions.
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Is there anything else on the surface?
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No. Now, all of that is content.
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All of that is form.
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Now, for most people, that's all they know about their lives.
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They only know their life and themselves as a mixture,
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and every mixture is somehow different of sense perceptions, thoughts, and emotions.
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and that's all there is as far as they know.
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What they don't realize is without the light of awareness in which sense perceptions,
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thoughts and emotions appear, they wouldn't even, they couldn't exist.
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That is the space for them and that is the consciousness itself.
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And that once you realize that dimension within yourself,
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the content of your life is of secondary importance.
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Before, it mattered so much what happened or didn't happen or fail to happen or success or failure that was.
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And you were so miserable when things went wrong and
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so elated when you fall in love of course it doesn't last
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when you only know content you get more and more frustrated with life
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and and then you realize there is a deeper dimension and that deeper dimension is who I am essentially.
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That is the true I,
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not the I that identifies with content forms that arise.
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So that is truly the secret of life for humans and others,
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I suppose, wherever they are,
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on this planet and elsewhere in the galaxy and other galaxies,
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because it cannot be that much different in other places in this galaxy or other galaxies.
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There will be form and space, both externally.
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You can look around, and you can always see stuff.
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In a room, you see the furniture.
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If you're outside, you see trees and so on.
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Or if you look up into space at night,
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you see stars, most of which are suns, distant suns.
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And what else do you see?
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Well, you don't see it,
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but there's vast spaciousness there.
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And even in this room,
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you might not pay attention to it,
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but this room could not exist if,
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in addition to the furniture in this room
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and the physical bodies in this room and all the other things in this room,
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and the ceiling floor and the walls of this room,
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if there were not space.
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This space is the essence of this room.
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You can't say the room.
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If you describe the room,
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usually people would write down,
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give children a school exercise,
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describe this room, ceiling, walls,
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floor, what's in this room,
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is that all there is?
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Yes.
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forgotten anything?
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No. Except the most important thing, forgot.
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It's the space.
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Thank you.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C2 is gebaseerd op de video “Freedom Through Thoughtlessness”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: sense, perceptions, space, content, arise. Deze video bevat 118 zinnen en 991 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 11:14. De spreker praat langzaam, ongeveer 88 woorden per minuut, zodat je tijd hebt om elke klank na te doen. 88% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 13 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| arise werkwoord | /əˈɹaɪz/ | ontstaan |
| spacious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈspeɪʃ.əs/ | ruimtelijk |
| dimension zelfstandig naamwoord | /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/ | dimensie, afmeting |
| elated bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪˈleɪtɪd/ | uitgelaten |
| frustrate werkwoord | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | frustreren |
| rainy bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɹeɪni/ | regenachtig |
| ingredient zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | ingrediënt |
| beautifully bijwoord | /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/ | mooi |
| spice zelfstandig naamwoord | /spaɪs/ | kruid, specerij |
| consist zelfstandig naamwoord | /kənˈsɪst/ | samenstelling |
| stir werkwoord | /stɝ/ | roeren |
| possess werkwoord | /pəˈzɛs/ | bezitten |
| essence zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛsəns/ | essentie, wezen |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| write down werkwoord | opschrijven, neerschrijven |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- You're not possessed by that entity anymore.
- There's what you see and what you hear.
- If you're outside, you see trees and so on.
- You can't say the room.
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 22 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals you're, don't, they're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: spacious /ˈspeɪʃ.əs/, spaciousness /ˈspeɪ.ʃəs.nəs/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: predominant /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnənt/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, beautifully /ˈbju.tɪ.fə.li/, miserable /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: arise /əˈɹaɪz/, elated /ɪˈleɪtɪd/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als arise, spacious, dimension.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.