If you are having a strong urge to not read this page, it might just be because of Eckhart Tolle’s words:

“The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego.”

This is quite a statement. If you continue reading, send a self-congratulatory comment saying “I read it. I’m on the right path.”

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This may seem simplistic so I’ve included an example of my ego-driven life – not so clean and simple. The three ways your ego treats the present moment (i.e., how you treat your life).

For Many years, I’ve treated computers as a means to an end. At the height of my business which I sold in 1996, we had 10 computers. I also had employees who handled them and fixed them, even picked new ones. They installed all the new software, taught me what I needed to know, answered my questions and fixed problems I created. I had a functional and distant relationship with computers. I viewed them as a means to an end, a necessary evil.

When I sold the business, I was for the first time in 18 years alone with my computer. My relationship quickly escalated from a means to an end to an obstacle to be overcome.

My relations ship with computers escalated to an obstacle to overcome especially when I was upgrading my software. Why did they programmers have to change what working perfectly well for me? In my opinion, rarely was it better.

I would fight and fight to conquer the software only to have hardware obstacles. Of course, better software required more computing power.

The problem was for every problem I solved another popped up. It became war, and I’d call in reinforcements – the computer consultant. Finally, I’d win the battle – but not the war.

Tolle says “When you… curse things that are happening or have happened… you are arguing with what is… You are making life into an enemy and Life says, “War is what you want, and war is what you get. External reality, which always reflects back to you your inner state, is then experienced as hostile.”

So What Is My Relationship with Computers NOW? The Present Moment…Life?

Tolle says answering this question brings you into a state of presence. When you see that your relationship with whatever is your computer, you are becoming present to the present moment and releasing dysfunction.

Well, I purchased Microsoft Office 07 about a month ago and finally put it in a week ago. I was afraid of what would happen because I’m learning a new skill and then to put learning new software on top of that, I just wasn’t sure I could handle it.

Well, I decided to friend computers and software and installed the upgrade. I love it. The 3-D graphics were created in MS Word. Before, I had to hire a graphics person to do that. I’m enjoying this new friending concept much more than a full-scale war.

Now I will say that I spent 2 hours on the phone with Mircrosoft help trying to figure out why I could not make a pdf file so I could make a graphic file that I could then import into this hubpage. Then a few hours learning. I decided to just go with the flow... and finally it worked.