You know, I am FULLY AWARE that everything is possible in consciousness and the variety in life is infinite, from ants to spiriitual teachers (I call OUT all ants too)…and I really find it all to be Amazingly, astoundingly, lovingly Fantastically miraculous…Truly unbelievable how everything does it’s BIT IN LIFE…I can barely speak after thinking about this even for an instant…
The fun in life is the Play, the positive and the negative…what fun is it (for me anyway) to constantly make you feel good and speak with golden tongue? Really really boring for me & for you…Why not give you a chance to feel Confused, indignant, upset, angry and see how much fun IT ALL IS without LOSING YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR?
TRAGEDY is heartbreaking and I cry like a baby with the rest of humanity (as a matter of fact I cry easily about everything beautiful or sad)…and I laugh just as easily about ANYTHING (and I mean anything!)
All knowledge is pretty much IGNORANCE. Nisagaddatta ( I do love him) said:
“As far as I am concerned, I have no faith in anything which has been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. ONLY MY OWN EXPERIENCE. You have had many visions, Is there any truth in the visions? What is the basis of these visions?”
Only your own experience is really worth anything…everything else is HERESAY, DISCUSSION, FOOD FOR a restless, inquiring, unsatisfied MIND. It’s all part of that Mysterious ongoing mind that keep churning out ideas and the world as we know it.
I can only speak from my own experience and I do. And this is my truth.
1. Life is a continual happening.
2. The Divine runs the show ALWAYS.
3. IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT IT WOULD BE, so relax with your life exactly as it is.
4. Shut Up (fall silent/meditate) and be Happy!
5. Make fun of everything and EVERYBODY, because it’s all a thought in consciousness -EVERYTHING.
6. NOTHING AND I MEAN NOTHING IS SERIOUS. You can always find a funny twist in everything, yes I mean everything; including sexual abuse, murder, Haiti, EVERYTHING.
7. AND OF COURSE THE BIG ONE by Beethoven:
“I console myself by the fact that God made me”
Every thought, every feeling, every action (gd bad & horrible) is God’s Will.
So I relax in the TRUTH that God Made me. PERIOD. AND I AM HAPPY/AT PEACE. ALWAYS (even when I’m crying, screaming and cursing at the way life is presenting ITSELF)- Because I know it just couldn’t have shown up any different then it did. Capish? Relax and be at Peace with your life exactly as it is.
AND, don’t bother to defend your spiritual teachers, they usually don’t care what anyone thinks of them beause they’re too busy serving others or just plain happy! OR some are tooooo busy making money and saving the “I” and the world with their rhetoric.
I’m gonna give you a smack if you don’t wake up soon! How many more advaita carrots are you going to buy into before you just relax into your Nature?
Repeat after me: I EXIST, I AM FREE and I’m not giving another penny to Katie, Gangaji, Mooji, Tony or Pamelai!! I’m going to buy myself a new car, a wardrobe and a house instead. Maybe I’ll even get a new boob job or a hair transplant (for the guys).
Just be yourself! That’s all that’s asked of you in this life. Don’t try to be like anyone else, think like anyone else, feel like anyone else, have enlightened experiences like anyones else. JUST BE YOURSELF THROUGH & THROUGH. BE Natural. Relaxing about yourself and your life will guide you home…Being feverish and wanting to be like someone else will keep you in knots and unhappy.
Who cares if someone else experiences the Transcendence (whatever that means)? Who cares if someone else experiences dancing with Krishna or the dissolutions of the universe or no “I”?
You keep your eye on YOUR PRIZE because no body else’s prize matters. We’re happy for them but the only one that matters is our own experieces when it comes to Being knowledge.
And be patient. The rule of thumb goes like this. “What’s yours will always be yours – what’s NOT yours will never be yours!”.
Ok? Now relax and be happy with your spiriitual programs, your progress and your life in general.
Haha! – A friend of mine came along to the last Tony P meeting. Tony’s wife Clare was collecting the entrance fee of £10. She looked at my friend and said “Hello, I don’t recognise you”. My friend replied “Oh, you should – I’m a regular – I come once every 10 years”. Tony came up and said “That’s a bargain – it’s only £1 a year!”. My friend replied “Yes – I’ve been saving up!” Much laughter ensued.. lots of love from David.
Tony is actually hilarious…when I’ve listen to one of his tapes I’m GONE!…His knowledge is that strawberry effect. You can only experience him fully after you’ve had your own experience. Before then, It’s a maze of words & confusion, but it is magical/enigmatic rhetoric.
The tape that I was listening to, he was calling out Gangaji, for charging so much money. Someone asked him about why he does what he does – and he said (I’m paraphrasing): “to support myself of course, but I’m cheap compared to Gangaji; she’ll take your whole checkbook!”
You know interestingly enough…all these teachers really do it to share their knowledge, and Tony is relatively “free=er” in stance then others, cause he doesn’t take enough to be “beholden” to a way of being and speaking.
But once you start TAKING THE BUCKS” there are certain expectations from your “students/devotees” that you have to live up to. And when you don’t live up to those expectations, they throw you RIGHT OFF that pedestal they Put you ON!
Say something negative, have an affair, show your emotions (in a negative way) and they STOP WANTING TO PAY YOUR BILLS ANYMORE AND OFF THEY GO TO THE NEXT ENLIGHTENED smoke & mirror PONY SHOW.
From my perspective, set the record straight right away. 1. Tell them you don’t know ANYTHING except what you’ve experienced & can offer for sure… 1. Don’t take their money (except for expenses) 2. Do & say WHATEVER COMES NATURALLY AND BE FREE of opinions of your “enlightenment and all their fictitious theories.. 3. Offer all that YOU ARE – and help others catch fire, marvel & laugh in freedom. 4. Be funny (sometimes in the strangest ways)
Some will call you crazy and some will just be entertained. EITHER way: “IDIDITMYWAY”!!!! (and that is definitely a song!)
PS. and what other way could you ever do it?
I do love you all, Dvorah (Dvorahji is a fabulous character I made up to give me that “guru” credibility!!!!
There really are some wonderful teachers/Guru’s around. We are very lucky nowadays. From my perspective, One will move you deeply…stay with that ONE and relax…
(from the shut Up book) What if I told you the only lesson you have to learn is to “Shut up and be happy?” That …See More
it’s funny you should mention the Artofliving…I’m not very much of an organization person, I never have been, I’m just too eccentric for them to put up with really, but I happen to look on the website yesterday to see Sri Sri’s schedule because he’s coming to LA to inaugurate a new center in central LA in April and I happened across what he’s accomplished (THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION) and it’s really impressive, & love stirring…
Someone’s got to do the HEAVY LIFTING. SOMEONE’S got to get the money and man power together to SERVE OTHER’S less fortunate and you need buildings and volunteers and constant travel and hotels and food and advertisement to tell people you’re here to help them and the list goes on and on and on…My friends (aol teachers) travel all over teaching trauma relief courses to Veterans thru the organization. And my kids (together with many others) went to New Orleans and worked with the children there through AOL (& someone had to pay for that).
I’m actually very proud of what Art of living does and that Sri Sri (despite the hype) has served so many in multitude of ways (physical, spiritual, trauma relief, & bucks). I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to go to Haiti,new orleans, Africa etc… I don’t even want to give them money or my time…I’m not built that way…but I’ll give someone a necklace I’m wearing because they want/need it in some way…Or I’ll sit at my computer writing a note or make a video or write a book, when I’d rather be outside walking lilly by the ocean. So we all serve our loved ones (the world) in our own way.
Sri Sri for me has the flavor (the aroma) of all the other great Guru’s. I love Ramana, Nisagaddatta, Vasistha, Astavakra, Shankara, and actually I only read their stuff not Sri Sri’s – but when I’m deeply quiet/in-love, it’s HIS aroma I get (I don’t know why)….
Check out srisri.org or artofliving.org…they’re worth a look/see…
I agree with D’ji, AOL is into good work. Perhaps as I notice, the org needs more transparency and accountabilty to show what they are doing and where exactly the money that is being donated, is going. I get receipts and follow-ups when I donate to other orgs, but AOl doesn’t do this very well. Perhaps it needs to
mature in this area. I have heardmany of my friends voice this very same opinion.
Plus the teachers need to update the videos on service being conducted at AOL- they show the same videos over and over and some of them don’t even mention the link www.artofliving.org as a reference.
I’m now not much into AOL but just help out with causes that mean something to me (including some projects at AOL). I am too individualistic and some of the teachers branded me as being too in the mind. But I am sure Guruji understands me…
It is strange isn’t it? My gig was always meditation asanas, pranayama, bhakti, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the vedas….i start reading Nisagaddatta, Ramana, Ramesh…and all I can see is SriSri and he says to me one day while reading ashtavakra in a tape: “Dvorah, when will you get it?” and the whole world began to unravel and THERE WAS ONLY THIS!.
I can only tell you that LOVE/DIVINE are MY NATURE…everything else is a HAPPENING…and SriSri is my Guru, like Esther & Leo are my parents. IT IS AS IT IS.
Sri Sri is an enigma to me, I do not understand HIM at all and I don’t try to, not possible. I only know that it’s incredible to be blessed with good parents and it’s a real blessing to have a Guru step into your life, want nothing and continually hold up a mirror so you can see your SELF clearly.
I am in adoration of my Guru, and I’m in adoration of everyone else’s Guru too (regardless of talking trash about them!!!) I just love playing it’s my nature.
