Dear Dvorahji: Papaji said: “If you desire to be one with truth, ‘you’ must completely disappear.” Well, I don’t ever dissappear, sometimes I feel I’m not the doer, but then I’m the doer again..I can’t seem to get it? I don’t understand anything in a final sense.
Darling: let me suggest something here. It’s really very simple, tiny, tiny subtle in it’s simplicity, but it is EVERYTHING.
Once you’ve had that moment of clarity, that experience that Enlightenment/Love/Truth/T
hat is your nature….THAT YOU ARE NOT THE DOER. It’s really enough. The problem with seekers is everytime they go into the “experience of I or being the doer” they think they’re back in ignorance and just “AREN’T THERE ANYMORE”. AND THIS IS WHERE the unhappiness BS thoughts start again & we believe them, and then we’re sunk again.
The Self continues to be overwhelmed with the experience of “I’m the doer” it’s a powerful obvious thought that comes & goes and when It comes we buy into it….then it goes and “AHHHHH, oh that’s right, I’m not the doer”.
This doer stuff is really quite stupid, and so is this concept that “we” dissappear.That’s an artistic cool phrase & I love using it for it’s beauty. But we take it literally and then expect to continue to be dissappeared….
Do you kinda get what I’m saying??? Trying to NOT BE THE DOER, OR THINKING THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE THE DOER – Is what’s doing you IN!!!!
You ALREADY know/have experienced “you are not the Doer”….now forget about it and go in & out of it and BE FREE OF THIS “I’M NOT THE DOER” CONCEPT. just live your life AND BE HAPPY! and you naturally are NOT the Doer.
People still think that ALWAYS RECOGNIZING in a very physical way that they are “not being the doer” makes them “enlightened”, finally THERE. THAT”s actually an idea like any other….LIVING LIFE WITH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING THAT THE DIVINE RUNS THE SHOW, THAT IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT IT WOULD BE —makes you NATURALLY not the doer, PERIOD. It’s all this thinking “about” that’s causing you problems.
Anyway darlings, relax with your life. I’m trying to talk about something that is a very very very subtle twist in the usual thinking about this subject…But that little twist is the difference between complete FREEDOM and this continuous search…..
This concept is Difficult to explain, because I want to go to the razers edge with IT to cut that tiny tiny subtle illusion you still have about “needing to be the non-doer”. If IT COULD BE DIFFERENT IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT is the exact same thing, but gives you a mantra that is more practical and it makes more sense in this time & place.
Love you Darlings, your Dvorah
This peace sign mean, I’m TRYING to be peaceful—-but since I’m NOT the doer, I can’t guarantee I will be peaceful…SO BEWARE of Dvorahji!
Jerry Harvey
a wonderful comment and a gorgeous photo. we enjoy your writings so much. you coulda been a contender.
December 24, 2009 at 9:30am ·
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler
that’s what my Dad used to say. “Dvorah! Get you arse out there and make some money! You got a million degrees, Now GO OUT and use them!”
And I’d say, “But Dad, I make a hundred dollars an hour counseling.”
And he’d say: “So, Dvorah, how many hours have you worked this month?”
And I’d give him a big smile and hold up my 2 (peace sign) fingers. “Sorry Daddy, I only worked 2 hours this month”……and Of course he’d just shake his head in amazement and hope for a better tomorrow!
I couldn’t tell him I was too busy meditating to work…Good lord the fantasies we have in our heads about enlightenment…it’s really ASS-TOUNDING!
December 24, 2009 at 9:40am ·
Nivedita R
This is awesome. You are awesome!! 🙂
December 24, 2009 at 9:51am ·
Doris Shewchuk
YOU are awesome…thanks Dvorah…and Peace to you :o)
December 25, 2009 at 8:50am ·
Sherry Stewart
Dvorajii. Did you ever generate financial wealth enough to give your dad. Big smile?
I had to sdk. Inquiring minds. Ya know? Love and glad I feel free to inquire.
I had to sdk. Inquiring minds. Ya know? Love and glad I feel free to inquire.
December 25, 2009 at 4:23pm ·
Margaret Guillory
Your ‘stories’ are soooo adorably FUNNY! :-)))
December 28, 2009 at 3:56pm ·