Unfortunately the word ego itself causes huge palpatations in the spiritual masses. And of course I have the biggest EGO in California and I’m always making noise like a spoiled brat, especially when I’m not getting besos from you.

We need to stop focusing on the ego altogether and just talk about this SIMPLE, SIMPLE, SIMPLE AWARENESS that is OUR nature and then EVERYTHING ELSE WILL FALL INTO PLACE. Capish?

Focus on the WHOLE-That’s all that’s needed. Not another 2 hour video or book on trying to get rid of the ego. I don’t care which famous holy/guru/roller is giving it. A complete waste of satsang. Don’t even get me started on this ego absurdness, makes me want to walk away from this spiritual stupidity forever, as people meditate in circles for another million lifetimes, following anybody in saffron or white robes who hums OM.

Drop the ego conversations and go have FUN (from the inside out!) You are not your ego, YOU ARE EVERYTHING.

My first AOL course question was – why do we make ego a layer – giving it reality? when all religions and cultures talk about destroy the ego !!

years!! later – i had my answer from Swami Pragyapad, and realized that yes, be one with all, yet you do need your ego (your separateness) to protect yourself, experience life etc etc.
The day i understood that – life was easy.
“be like a glasshouse, all light comes through and there is no difference between you and outside you, you see and experience everything as is, without distortion, yet the glass walls protect you from the outside elements that may harm. Your ego should be like that – absolutely clear glass wall.”

Noticed that when you have any kind of pain, at first your attention goes to it, but if the pain continues, notice that you can be talking, doing things and no one will know that you’re in pain, unless someone asks you and you tell them, right?

That detachment, that witnessing detachment IN FULL RELAXATION, is that Space observing the pain. But it is so natural and so intimate that you attach it to the mind & body (you) having the pain. when in fact THERE IS PAIN and then there is the observer, witnessing pain. When you begin to relax into SELF/that Space, you see the body continues to do what it does trying to balance itself out. 

Of course herbs, healers whatever can help or not. But know that when there is pain and you get sick, that it has IT’S OWN HEALING TIME FRAME. You “think” you can rush it by doing all kinds of things (which may or may not work) and still it has it’s own time frame & heals when it heals (goes when it goes). Illness, Pain like everything else is what it is, so you can get impatient, and also know that it passes through like everything else.

Personally, I DON’T LIKE PAIN, it’s a bummer!!… whether I’m detached from it or not because depending how severe – you still go in & out of it. If it’s really bad, I go to bed put on Om Namah Shivaya tape by Robert Gass and trance out and suddenly I’m blissful in the eye of the storm. Try it when you’re in Pain.

And since that thought may come up again and again, it may take a couple of days. Do your asanas, pranayam, meditation, a little kriya and you should be good as new.

All this healing stuff, it’s your imagination…you “THINK” you have to heal. Relax and again move along…

From my perspective, hidden causes is the language of psychobabble, belief in getting rid of ‘bad karma” cleaning the chakras, cells, aura and a myriad of healing processes that are available now through the New Age. THEY all assume there is something hidden in you that needs to be looked at and healed. From my perspective IT’S ALL RUBBISH-THOUGHTS THAT COME AND GO about your mind & body. & of course that doesn’t mean people don’t get healed.

if you ask me, Dvorahji, then LIFE IS A HAPPENING, PERIOD. And to understand that statement, you really have to go beyond thought, and belief systems and recognize that all your problems including all the “hidden causes” are because of your THOUGHTS and those thoughts have the staying power and “depth” of a fly buzzing around your head. 

It will buzz for a while & then it will move on, maybe it will come back again, but then it will eventually die. There is no “depth” in a fly and there is no depth in a thought. Your “hidden causes” are a thought, an made up story that you believe. and again THAT’S OK, because IT IS AS IT IS.

When you’re ready to give up ALL YOUR STORIES and ALL YOUR HIDDEN CAUSES, you may want to check out this post again… love Dvorah

Look at them, review them, heal them, write about them, that’s all part of our life, just RECOGNIZE that they are passing through and that SILENT OPEN PEACEFUL SAFE NATURE that you are. That way you can play with them, experience them AND NOT GET STUCK ON THEM as if they we stuck in your cells & the rest of that New Age healing Bull$%%T. NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING is stuck anywhere. NOTHING is deep in your chakras & dna crap. IT’S ALL RIGHT HERE ALL THE TIME, RIGHT NOW, for you to access if IT wants to.

Just be Natural, be who you are, accept your life as it comes up or NOT….but again, when it’s all over, and you’re done doing your thing, MOVE ALONG! instead to back tracking to get the last bit of nonsense the healer told you to get out. Move along… your free, your healed and you are PURE.

Present moment, Enlightenment, Love, SPACE, GRACE, ALL ARE YOU NATURE in the present moment ALWAYS.

The present moment is ALWAYS RIGHT HERE, PERIOD. You never have to try being in the present. You are always Here in IT. If you want, stop, take a breath, and in that breath your mental activity usually stops and there it is – THE PRESENT MOMENT. Always there in between every breath, with no beginning and no end. HERE all the Time.

What teachers really refer to when they tell you to “try” and be in the present moment is a cessation of thought – AND trying to stop thinking is like trying to stop the pink Elephant, from trampling through your mind. 

NOW/PRESENT are already your reality, you don’t ever have to try and BE present, that’s when you start mind-tripping again. It’s a relaxation into what YOU ALREADY ARE, NOT a trying to be. Get it? Great, now relax with all this stuff and live in the Now/present naturally.

“That BEING that has ALWAYS been with you since childhood & has never changed-THAT’S YOUR ENLIGHTENED NATURE! “

I am hooked onto your FB status and comments now….pearls….nopes….absolute diamonds of wisdom…..

Cheers to you. Your words are amazing.

Seekers can get very smug with what they’ve learned – No body seems to want to really give it all up…they still want “a little control, a little choice”. That’s why there are so many teachers Offering enlightenment & positive thinking as still “your choice”.

I’d like to look at you straight in the face and completely dismiss anything you have to say and make sure you know, VERY CLEARLY – THAT LIFE IS A HAPPENING…and you have NO choice, there is only the appearance of choice. And everything, and I mean EVERYTHING IS A VAST MYSTERY beyond your control. And maybe then you’ll just give it up, relax and live your life without all these rationalizations and “what ifs”. 

It always is exactly as it CAN ONLY BE, PERIOD. NO ifs, buts, maybes or whatevers. Nada. It is as it is.

Yes IT IS EASY, EASY, EASY….

All these concepts on how to get things to happen for you. Honestly it’s so heartbreaking to keep watching seekers trying to manipulate their life to get what they want and then once they get it, they want something else and on and on and on…It’s one mind trip after another with an occasional hit for awhile.

I know it appears as if there is a rhyme or reason for what happens to you…BUT FORGET IT! IT HAPPENS WHEN IT HAPPENS, AND most of the time it doesn’t happen the way you want it to, and if it does, there always a little twist. But the good news is you still keep hoping that this time it’s going to be a “forever” happiness.

How can there be a forever when everything is ALWAYS CHANGING? How is it possible? You find your true love and in one year they’re completely different? And in five years you’re both completely different people. Sometimes you hang in there and sometimes you don’t.

Don’t worry so much about all this stuff…Live your life and have as much fun as you can in & out of relationships…

Excellent. Just wish I had read this before spending two weeks with what I honestly believed was true love. Hey, it was just two weeks. Could have been two years…

Jeff

In life when you have a lot of happiness/bliss it comes with an automatic “opposite” ticket. If you go up, you come down…That’s the REAL LAW OF ATTRACTION. UP IS ATTRACTED TO DOWN.

Jeff you had a great time, a great adventure and you’re going to have many more…enjoy them all with their ups & downs, otherwise life get so boring. all this hoping, praying, wanting, getting, losing, crying…what a drama, and feeling it all is really very exciting, isn’t it? Much Better then feeling nothing? 

The trick is always to move on and give all those “associations/feelings” a chance to move out of your system & psyche. People tend to think they have deep vasana – but really that’s ridiculous. THERE IS NO DEEP ANYTHING!!!! IT’S ALL RIGHT HERE. IT’S JUST THAT SIMPLE…let them come & then let them goooooooo. Just be a little patient. A little breathing, a little kriya, a little meditation and you’re as clear as new.