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Eckhart Tolle's most famous exercise — "I wonder what my next thought will be" — contains a hidden flaw: the voice asking the question is itself a thought, and it never gets caught. Mark walks through exactly why this creates a loop with no exit, what presence and disidentification actually have to do with each other, and the one move that catches the mouse Tolle's exercise always lets go.
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