Ask Dvorahji: I can't stand living in the present anymore!

CASEY:

Dvorahji, I’m having great inner turmoil right now with my faith – I’m in a situation in which I would like to skip the present and move on to the next step. So how to make peace now with the “present” I am in, and how to keep hope alive for something I “wish” for, when the Universe pretty much will do as it will?

DVORAHJI:

Darling, what is turmoil, but thoughts and feeling coming-going-returning-goi

ng again more often then usual. The problem comes in when we give these thoughts and feeling the “importance” THEY DON’T DESERVE. Just because they SEEM more spiritual, more important, more enlightened then other thoughts, we somehow see them as “BIG SPIRITUAL TURMOIL”. Relax. They are thoughts like any other. You might as well be thinking about your next lunch. Thoughts are thoughts are thoughts.

The present is a thought. Hope is a thought. It’s all a thought and YOU ARE in the PRESENT. IT’S NOT UP FOR DEBATE, OR THOUGHTS OR FEELINGS. Your body is in the present. Your breathe is in the present. Your thoughts about the past and future and hope are ALL IN THE PRESENT.

You have NO CHOICE but to make peace with the PRESENT, as You are always in it. The next step is also in the present. You can’t rush an apple seed and you can’t “rush” your life to do something else. YOU JUST CAN’T, SO why not FACE THAT. Sit down, close your eyes, and say very softly before you sit down to meditate:

I am HERE. I am nothing, I want nothing…then continue with your meditation.

And you can say this to yourself even in activity during the day a couple of times.

Every question you have put in front of me is a CONCEPT you have about your life, what should happen. And you have concepts about how the universe works, And none of them hold water in the reality of WHAT IS.

IT’S ALL BS (BRAIN SCRABBLE) and you want me to give it importance. Just move a long with your life…just keep doing what you’re doing and let life work itself out! Do your Yoga, meditation, program. Do your courses, because that’s what you do……….And recognize that life just continues to do it’s thing. JUST MOVE ALONG and when these dire thoughts continue, great! SO WHAT? BE AN APPLE SEED. Add some fertilizer and change & grow when you change&grow. BESIDES YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. Relax with all this stuff….It’s just stuff honey, relax.