The greatest obstacle for seekers (to finally live in PEACE, in their Nature) – is that they think it “looks” a certain way and that it’s soooooo difficult to be FREE. IT’S your Nature, for God’s Sake’s (exactly as you are right now faults and all)! How difficult can that be? Enlightenment/Peace looks JUST LIKE YOU!
The basis of being happy, the basis of “SHUT UP AND BE HAPPY” is a firm intuitive understanding that: IF IT Could Be Different, It would Be. If your life could look a different way, It would! And of course it doesn’t! Why? Because you realize with a full heart that: “Deeds are done (& said & thought) and there is NO INDIVIDUAL DOER”–THE BUDDHA
Long time seekers, people who have searched and done Sadhana for years, somehow miss THAT POINT. (Even tho they’ve read it a hundred times). They’re still worried about their practices, their meditations, their guru, their purity, their diets, their service, their lifetimes. They’re still worried about everything! (only instead of being worried about heaven & hell, they’re now worried about bad thoughts!)
Understand its ALL OR NOTHING if you want to be happy/free from all this human strife. Either you’re the doer or YOUR NOT! There is no in-between. It’s either all GOD’S WILL OR NOT! NO in-between. That doesn’t mean you don’t try and do things or progress or get a better job or eat better, or try to listen to your teachers or whatever. HOWEVER, It does mean that you recognize that even all these thoughts, actions, trials and tribulations, ups and downs, failure and triumphs are part of THAT GOD’S WILL.
This KNOWLEDGE should at least relax you. Give you some semblance of peace until it’s fully intuitively integrated, ESPECIALLY in those that have been working at it for a long time.
If It Could Be Different, It Would Be Different is a modern way of saying: RELAX, “Deeds are done and there are no individual doers”. It’s a mantra (even tho it’s in English) that opens you up to THAT VAST UNKNOWN SPACE AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE. It brings you peace and it’s SO SIMPLE.
Enlightenment is your VERY NATURE! Now how easy is THAT?
OY VEY! RELAX ALREADY!
Written 23 hours ago · ·
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Jelena Polic
Reading your book and postings here really helps me relax through turbulent times (at least that much)
Yesterday at 8:30pm ·
Cathy Prem
Shut up and be happy? If it were so simple you could tell that to a child.
9 hours ago ·
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler
Children don’t listen! Try talking to a 2 year old or even a 13 year old….Simplicity is a product of innocence/knowledge not age….
Shut Up means: fall silent, relax, go within….and Happy means: accepting your life as it comes up and moving from one moment to the next without all this rationalization and regret.
Many Seekers have been mind-F-ing themseves for a long time, twisted in meaning and fantacies of enlightenment and New Age lingo, ancient books and positive hope. Thinking and praying for relief from their ignorance and vasanas (thoughts of present & past life miseries).
It is simple, Truth is very very very simple and closer then your breath…it’s the mind and intellect that’s complicated. Shut UP & BE Happy is a call to open-ended relaxation into your NATURE…it’s not a technique or another intellectual discussion on “how to shut Up”.
3 hours ago ·