Sri Sri said: -” Wake up, realize this is all made of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought, your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this…& be free!” Dvorahji says: BELIEVE HIM!!! Thoughts are just passing through…Relax in THIS/INFINITE SPACE – Let thoughts come & go…you remain free
if you let them go would that make you thoughtless,lol,,,,I do believe the mind is a powerful thing it can make or break you!!!! Think happy thoughts 😉
thoughts CAN’T make or break you if you see them for what they are…..TRULY JUST A THOUGHT, AN ILLUSION IN THE AIR, A PAST FRAGRANCE OF AN EXPERIENCE. As soon as you think it, it’s gone. Your body is HERE Your breath is HERE Your thoughts are thinking about everything BUT THE HERE…they are passsssssssing through….See them for what they are and you are always cooooool!
well said!!!!! A past fragrance of an experience, very nice,,,,if I close my eyes and think about sad thoughts floating by and smile it feels like they just pass on they don’t stick and dwell,,,thanks for the tools I need them today to get through while I am closing a chapter in my life 😉
Jacqueline, there’s a little twist here that you can get:
We are always trying to get rid of sad thoughts, unhappy thoughts, irritating thoughts, stressful thoughts, and we don’t WANT them to stick.
Just recognize that NOTHING STICKS. IT JUST DOESN’T, IT JUST COMES BACK AND FORTH AGAIN AND AGAIN. but nothing “sticks” to us. Healers talk about “thoughts” lodged in our cells and on and on – honestly it’s just Bull#$%!……Our bodies are a spacious floating environment and so is our mind. NOTHING STICKS, it all on the surface, right HERE!!!!! WE JUST THINK IT DOES. it’s just all changing, moving from moment to moment, thoughts to thoughts in an open ended Spacial environment.
So if a thought “sticks or not” comes back again and again…..we know it for what it is. Maybe we’re overshadowed for a moment and STILL WE KNOW IT FOR WHAT IT IS.
btw – People still like/get intrigued interested in their thoughts positive, negative or otherwise….I just watched a horror movie and occasionally the images come back, but to me I’m watching that movie again and it’s wierd and scary and interesting……..People actually like their thoughts regardless of their contents. IT GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT AND FEEL A CERTAIN WAY. But the SPACE THAT YOU ARE IS far bigger then the thoughts passing through.
When I turn to some of the teachings and books people recommend – it sometimes causes me more stress that I am not maintaining the correct mind set to be “truely connected”. Your messages help remind me that everything is ok and as it should be…..they help me find the peace of heart I am trying to remember. Luv, Sandy
DVORAHJI:
You Know SANDY, “trying to stay connected to spirit” is one of the most ridiculous concept the New Age & Old Age have come up with. YOU ARE ALWAYS CONNECTED…that’s never the problem. Are you connected to your nose? Are connected to your breathing? So you are always connected to the Divine to spirit.
What causes stress is “thinking, feeling” whether you’re connected or not. Your life will continue to change according to ITS OWN PLAN..LIFE JUST MOVES ALONG BAD & GOOD. You’re job is to recognize that you are always loved and that right now the weather is a little grey, cloudy….
Relax, keep moving along, I promise you it will change. Don’t bother to think about it so much…just do what’s in front of your face and keep moving along…
If you have a chance pick up the “Shut Up book” get it from the AOL bookstore and …go through my posts and relax with your life, knowing very CLEARLY, that if it could’ve been different, if it could have turned out different, It would have!!! Relax…you’re just fine.
Keep going to group Kriya and don’t isolate yourself…and you can write a letter to Guruji secretariat@artofliving.org
ok, love Dvorah
YOU ARE ALWAYS CONNECTED! IT’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO BE….
And I think it is that wie forget, that we are always connected. Remembering and going into stillness for a moment helps to relax…and make you feel connected again. without concept. Love!
“The moment you place judgement on another person, you are revealing to yourself the part of you that you are in judgement of.” ~ Amir Zoghi******
DVORAHJI:
You know, we judge people all the time…and we think it’s so horrible! Well, let me be the first to say: IT’S NATURAL…And it’s not such a big deal. No matter how much you “don’t” want to judge – you JUST DO – AND THEN you end up hating yourself & others for judging. It’s so stupid really. LOVE IS YOUR NATURE and judging comes & goes (and let it be from your throat or brain and not from your heart!!!)
And if we wouldn’t take it all so SERIOUSLY we wouldn’t get so bent out of shape
everytime we judge a 90 year old driving in front of us at 20mph in a 60 mph zone.
THIS POLITICALLY SPIRITUAL CORRECT NONSENSE GIVES ME HEARTBURN AND I THINK IT’S BECAUSE OF THE CHINESE FOOD I HAD FOR DINNER (OOPS! was I just judgemental? SH@@ – can’t say anything nowadays: Especially in a non-judgemental spiritual community – where people judge each other ALL THE F-ING TIME about who’s judgemental or not!
Give yourself a break, and stop looking for reasons/quotes to JUDGE YOURSELF!
SPIRITUAL SEEKERS & devotees are always judging me! Do I really know WHO I AM?……..Well let me help you along….I don’t have a clue WHO I AM and if you think you know who you are – you are defnitely spiritually CRAZY!
@Vibha..of course the joke is, you’re judging them for judging themselves and that makes them “not as spiritual/or non judgemental as they should be”…..It’s all just a joke! People judge ALL THE TIME, CONSTLANTLY. So I say…OK – so judge and then letl it go into the ether/space where it cam from and keep moving a long, singing a song. We get stuck at every ridiculous concept that moves through our mind.
So WHAT, you judged someone or thing? SO What someone else is judgemental? SO F-ing WHAT! Unless it’s coming from their heart and they’re really BOZO’s & you need to correct them by calling them a Bozo -LET IT GO and don’t bother to judge others for being judgemental.
was never too judgmental… born to be hippie and have so much love for everyone and everything the way they are…. But still sometimes something comes out like he/she shouldn’t or why he/she did like this or
not like that. The funny thing is, it takes just few days or sometimes hours and I find myself in the same situation and doing or planning to take same action as the person I was judging 🙂
Thanks for this, I’m going to copy the Amir Zhogi quote. In ‘Mind Clearing’ the question is ‘When did you do something similar?” and, after initial reluctance, there always was something similar.
People are afraid they’re going to screw up their life and make wrong choices. EVERY CHOICE you’ve ever made has been GOD’S Choice. Maybe it didn’t turn out the way you hoped-BUT IT WAS WHAT IT COULD ONLY BE! Relax with your choices . Continue making choices UNAFRAID deeply knowing that ANY choice you make, WILL BE THE RIGHT ONE! OK? Relax.
Remember that “good” is A concept we’ve made up….actually, it happens the way it needs to happen…and that isn’t always “good” from our point of view. IT JUST IS.
And (from my perspective, contrary to New Age BS) the Universe is not benevolent, IT JUST IS and does what IT does. That’s actually a tough ‘concept’ to swallow – but the alternative is even worse because if you have a benevolent God, then you also have a treacherous God and WHO needs either.
FORTUNATELY you’ve got NEITHER, so you can relax. It is as it is.
There is NOTHING terribly serious about Awareness-NOTHING! You don’t have to let go of anything. Relax with all these concepts-let AWARENESS NATURALLY become your NATURE.
I think what people don’t realize, is how wonderful it is to have a “LIVE” IN THE BODY somebody that you adore and trust and that even tho it all comes & goes from the same place…that place has the flavor of this “someone” that imbibes all the Masters that you adore, living and gone…There is something wonderful about “that body”…like a beautiful elegant natural Rose, that you know fades but the fragrance somehow remains and embodies the Space of all time…
“Relax and be with your life AS IT IS! – STOP this incessant searching and crying for some fool to save you…You are saved! Shut Up! (fall silent) and BE Happy!…and if you can’t be happy, then complain about not being happy, and if you can’t complain, go have a cookie…just move along without analyzing everything you think, say or do…just move along from one moment to the next…
I just had a cookie about an hour and a half ago… vegan, with pecans and chocolate chips… and then a slice of pizza with artichoke hearts and feta on it…. thank you!
Some people often think of food as their last “challenge” that they have to conquer before they’re finally in control. Let me be the first to SMASH that delusional concept. When food goes, YOU GO…From my experience it’s one of the last desires that LEAVES YOU before you check out………….and still with your dying breath you may still ask for a hot fudge sundae.
This fight that people have with food is heartbreaking to watch, because it so seems that we should be able to control it and yet………we just can’t. All you have to do is check out Oprah with all her money and all her trainers and al her everything and she still can’t control what she puts in her mouth.
Food is usually associated with life. You eat, you live. If you associate it with control then you get all the weird symptoms of food control, anorexia, bulimia etc.
Fortunately I’ve always considered myself a dyslexic anorexic. In other words, I’m big & ZAFTIG and I look in the mirror and I see a perfectly shaped model. GUESS I’M ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES & my dyslexia has come in handy.
like yesterday i was made to realize….EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING….stay with the happening what say u dvohraji….wud love to meet u next time u in India darling…
As for food, I would have to say …. I do enjoy it, but it’s more I eat to live, not live to eat. Likely if I could take a pill that took care of my body’s needs ….. I would not eat much …. it would be way simpler:) I still would want an apple or a mango, or cookies with tea sometimes ….. and maybe a hot fudge sundae a couple times a year 🙂 Feel for myself and some other people …. well we all have different ‘challenges’ ….. I know quite a few women who can’t seem to let the ‘mother’ role go !! I feel I still (at times) want to know what I will do when I grow up !! What my purpose is and what PROJECT should I be working on !! I also would like a Mr. Saturday Night, and maybe he could come on Wednesdays, too ….. depending 🙂 Tonight is booked and I am grateful for that ….. and Wednesday was too 🙂 lol !! but, that was just THIS week ….. it is not consistent YET – But, what the hell is ….. it’s LIFE and nothing is consistent except ‘not knowing’ anything !!! ♥
This is from Dr. Hew Len of Ho’oponopono: ” Before I eat anything say in my mind: ‘I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! If I am bringing anything into this situation that would cause me to feel ill/fat as I am eating you, it’s not you! It’s not even me! It’s something that triggers that I am willing to be responsible for!’ I LOVE YOU – then enjoy the meal because it’s now cleaned.”
Personally I get tired of all the TRICKS that give me permission to eat food, or cleanse my food. To me they are just more thoughts trying to fix it all. I don’t need to clean my food, fix my food, make it holy or worth eating it. I’m not trying to change it’s vibration so it makes me “feel responsible or thin or ill or fat. I’m tired of MANIPULATING my life PERIOD. Why? Because its just plain NONSENSE!
I don’t believe in positive thinking, or begging to make my life or anyone else’s better. Sometimes a natural prayer arises and I’m thankful for everything including the piece of chocolate cake that’s sitting in front of me or that great plate of vegetables.
A Simple THANK YOU is always enough. If YOU want to do more, great, what could it hurt. But all this talk/and begging and pleading and loving nonsense to make it all OK – IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ILLUSION. BECAUSE no matter how many times you say “I LOvE YOU”, the fact that you’ll still get that sugar/diabetic attack after you eat that donut, or a rash after those strawberries – will assure you that you are full of “positive I love you” Shi@!@@@@!
I’m physically fat and have tried all sorts of food phobias over the years, but lately I feel like a thin woman and I can’t be bothered.
I have a friend who was trying to ‘fix’ my thoughts the other day by doing some mirror work, and while she was trying to get me to dig around in my sludge, I kept looking in this mirror and getting distracted by how pretty I am.
“If you want to have any peace at ALL,Really. The ONLY CHOICE you have regarding your past present & future is to say: IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT-IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT! Everything else will leave you guessing as to what might have been, should be, and could be. Relax with all UR concerns and simple repeat this simple mantra when you’re in conflict about what you’ve said or done or happened. Relax with a new moment”–Dali Mama
BIRJOO:
Seeing the future as being choiceless makes the lazy mind happy, and slip into the couch and doze off instead off get going…seeing the past and present as if it could be different it would be brings freedom to drive to a different place starting now…the future is full of possibilities, adventures which can be looked upon as problems or viceversa…. isnt it?
DVORAHJI:
Great question!! AND………Well……….
NO! Not from my perspective. The future may be open to all possibilities, but if you expect it to be OPEN “Your Way, the way you’d like that possibility to go” Then it’s going to leave you in MISERY. It is OPEN…but it’s open IT’S WAY. That’s why, from my perspective the statement “if it could be different-It would be different” as it relates to the future……INSURES ALL POSSIBILITIES GOING IT’S WAY and takes you out of the picture, so you don’t have to worry about the future, AS THE future takes cares of ITSELF.
It’s a mistake of the intellect to think “ONE has a lazy mind”. Actually it’s IMPOSSIBLE to have a lazy mind. Because the mind ALWAYS DOES IT’S JOG, doesn’t it? IT THINKS! And sometimes those thoughts bring action and exciting revelations, and sometimes those thoughts just pass right through and bring nothing but more thoughts. BUT this lazy mind thing, is JUST ANOTHER MIND THING.
SOMETIMES YOU”RE DYNAMIC AND SOMETIMES YOU’RE NOT and it only APPEARS as if you’re lazy but actually YOU ARE DOING THE BEST YOU CAN AT ALL TIMES & SO IS “YOUR MIND”. Anyway that’s my opinion and it’s as good as yours, but mine makes more sense, isn’t it? hahahahahhahahahahahahhah HMITBOTFL (HUGE MASSIVE IN THE BELLY ON THE FLOOR LAUGHTER!)
BIRJOO:
Just like duty free goods now i can enjoy guilt free laziness…lol
DVORAHJI:
My bumper sticker says: The lazier the better! Our problem is we just can’t let go of this “I am the doer bit”….especially in American where “I will, I can, I must” (and I’m going to do it MYSELF) exists so strongly. The question comes up: “how is it possible that I’m NOT the doer? Impossible”.
Even long time seekers are still going for the “law of attraction” professing: “Well if I can’t do it, there must be something wrong with my desiring, let me desire even stronger!”
Now everything is possible in consciousness, and desires are fulfilled and many times that fulfillment can coincide with the desire for that fulfillment…BUT THAT STILL DOESN’T MEAN YOU DID IT! You, are like an ant with an intellect. You do what you do, and NOW you can “THINK:” ABOUT IT every which way and then bother yourself about EVERYTHING, thinking all the time it’s YOUR FAULT, YOU DID IT!
WELL in the world of appearance you did do it!! and SO WHAT? SO YOU DID IT, SO YOU MADE A MISTAKE. SO YOU LOST YOUR HOUSE, cause you couldn’t get a job. So you lost your husband, cause you nagged. So your daughter’s on drugs, cause you “think” you didn’t pay enough attention. So your Guru doesn’t call your name or pay attention to you, because you “think” you’re too stupid and have too many negative thoughts!” SO FRICKIN WHAT?
IT HAPPENED, AND YOU can’t do anything about it except what you can at this moment and if you “could have done it differently you would have done it differently and you JUST DIDN’T!!!!. WHY? BECAUSE!!!!!! (UNDERLINED!)
NOW go through your traumas, go through the gyrations, bang your head against a wall and when IT’S OVER….SAY WITH FULL CONVICTION: “if it could have been different it would have been different!!! THEN move on to what YOU need to do next and WHALLLLLAH…YOU’RE IN PEACE AGAIN moving through the LiLa again and again…waving, and screaming and blissing at the next adventures that you THINK IS screwing you over……..
And Darling BIRJOO……..It’s a Crazy Magic show…..really crazy and really AWESOME MAGIC SHOW…now you see it, and now you don’t!
What’s unfortunate is that we have to suffer…I hate that part and I don’t care how we rationalize it! (like if there’s no suffering, there’s no joy) and beebleblahblahblahahahahah
ah……and yea you can observe & dig the misery, BUT WHO WANTS TO! But what choice do you have?????? Just move along and sing a song (miserable or otherwise) and blame it ALL on the: AAAAAAAAAA Applejuice your guru gave you!
Wanna be at peace? Get a dog then a Guru…in that order! or NOT!
Doing itself doesNOT rob peace…Taking the blame and credit of “my doing” robs peace. If people could “Do” and live with the consequences of doing without second guessing themselves all the time…they wouldn’t get so tweaked in their life…they’d relax more and move along…
the Nature of knowledge is “to be appreciated -it never sinks in until it compeltely dissappears and takes you to silence…Appreciate it without expectation of “sinking in”….
Sri Sri: “Whenever someone matures they realize they know very little. Its like from an ignorant ‘I don’t know’ to an enlightened ‘I don’t know’!”—- Dali Mama: It’s amazingly freeing to realize ONCE & FOR ALL THAT YOU REALLY JUST DON’T KNOW. For some reason it leaves you in Spacious PEACE. Make an alter to OPEN SPACE…
Dear Dvorahji: Does enlightenment look a certain way? Will I see things a certain way, or perceive the outside world in a certain way? Will I live with NO ME, see through a fish eye like UG, or have experiences like Byron, or some of these other Guru Teachers, like Da, or Osho, or Adi, or Gangaji, or Francis, or Sri Sri, or the Advaita guys or even you. What does Enlightenment see? What does Enlightenment physically look like?
Darling:
Where most seekers bite the dust and I have for years – Is they have expected these experiences of NO ME to be apparent at all times (in our physical perception at all times) like a physical continued expression/or experience. As if the PHYSICAL eye/seeing perception would change.
Now in some cases that may be so, because ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN CONSCIOUSNESS. Some Teachers, Gurus have certain powers, Siddhis i.e. they can disappear, or duplicate themselves or naturally know what you’re thinking. But these are natural occurrences and its’ their gig. That still doesn’t mean they perceive “see” the world differently with an altered perceptive apparatus.
However, all the written material on “enlightenment” or liberation from Ramana to Gangaji to Tony to Maharaji to Mother Mary and all the rest….points to an ABSOLUTE EXPERIENCE AT ALL TIMES OF “NO ME” or some sort of “OTHER” then normal seeing, hearing, thinking and feeling. And that has caused MASSIVE CONFUSION even in the seeker who IS naturally happy, enlightened & RELAXED IN LIFE. For some inane reason some seekers (who have been in this enlightenment game for a while) CONTINUE this search, this seeking for “NO ME” .
So I’m here to unreservedly say SHUT UP AND RELAX…with all these concepts you have about “what enlightenment looks like!!!” MANY OF YOU are already happy and intuitively already exist/are absolutely AWARE COMPLETELY/WITHOUT A DOUBT – that life is a living dream and that EVERYTHING, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING, from your latest subtle experience of “NO ME” – to getting mad at your husband, to seeing your Guru, to eating potato chips is a ever-changing Happening that comes & goes. IT IS A HAPPENING and YOU are part of that HAPPENING.
When Dvorahji, looks out her window she sees the Sun. And when Dvorahji looks at her dog, she sees a dog and when Dvorahji has a choice between a milkshake & a turkey, guess which one she’ll choose???? Enlightenment doesn’t look like anything? Freedom COMES IN DIFFERENT FORMS…but it sees everything the way YOU DO…OR NOT (because anything is possible)
It’s a Play, a Lila, a MOVIE, a HAPPENING…AND You and everything You think, feel, say, do, Is part of that play. BEING AWARE that it’s a play and intuitively/realizing that it’s a play, and having some experiences that demonstrate to you that it’s a play….Is enough to SHUT UP AND BE HAPPY and stop this miserable searching and confusion and let Life present you with what ever it wants to. YOU ARE ALWAYS HOME. YOU ARE ALWAYS ALREADY ENLIGHTENED. YOU ARE ALWAYS PEACE.
I love you, relax…..love Dvorahji
PS. The really cool experiences, the ones the so-called “enlightlened” ones are always talking about come & go like everything else (just like they do in you).
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Dvorahji comment:
I love the name Shut Up Guru – Why? Because it’s enough with all this serious Guru BULL#@#@. The Guru is YOUR NATURE. PERIOD. NOTHING other then YOURSELF. PERIOD. This seriousness, phony humbleness, idol worshiping this constant separation is uncalled for.
Seekers fool themselves & teachers fool themselves thinking they are higher, know more, are more intelligent, understand the in & outs of enlightenment, are more evolved then their students. And that includes the students of the Dai lama, Ramana and the hundreds of revered Gurus & Teachers, students are constantly bowing down to.
Now Look, I have a Guru, I honor my Guru, I’m grateful I have a Guru, and I love so many teachers & Guru’s but I don’t want to BE LIKE MY GURU. I don’t want to look like him, talk like, him or be revered like him. I’m a Dvorahji. And that’s good enough for me. Like Being an Alexji, or Manjulaji, or Gayleji, Lakshmiji is good enough for you. I just happen to be a writer a teacher…Others are blackjack dealers, bus drivers.
From now on, you can call me the Shut Up Guru, and my favorite phrase in the whole dictionary is Shut Up and Be Happy! And don’t put me on any pedestal cause you are going to be sorely disappointed. Just be NATURAL, fully at ease with yourself and all the stupid/holy ridiculous things you say and do.
Be Happy with your life exactly as it shows UP. If It Could Be Different – It would BE!
sometimes enlightened people see me as a giraffe with sun glasses..
cant stop laughing!!! “what enlightenment looks like!!!” .. but the words were really enlightening too.
I remember the first time i met Sri Sri, i realized i had a concept that if someone was so cool, he would be glowing like a 1000 watt bulb, but Sri Sri was so normal looking. I broke my own concept of what a enlightened person should look like… that day.
You know Mary, maybe it’s my age, but I feel like fading more and more into the background…the only thing I might do is some children’s music…I still have no desire to finish the second book & I’ve tried lots of gimmicks to do it, it’s just sittin’ there…I’m going out to volunteer…now that’s sounds fun!
I have a writing coach/editing/tutoring business. If you ever want help with the book or any other writing project, you can find me at writer8services.wordpress.com or at the Vital Writer Services page on FB. I’d be happy to ghost write or whatever for you since I love you and I really need the work!
I thought it was just me—–I hide out here in Never Never Land with the chickens. I`m getting over feeling guilty for enjoying it. Let me know if volunteering kicks you into gear.
I’m volunteering for fun, there’s nothing like SEEING someone laugh at one of your jokes, or being cheered up because you’re wearing a colorful outfit – and there is nothing more delicious then hanging out in the garden and having lunch for 3 hours. Quite fabulous! Guilt is sooooooooo past tense…
Betsy…I don’t pay, but I’ll certainly send people if it comes across my desk….
i feel like my head is spinning, reading the article. Its great. Its amazing. but I feel like am standing on top of a 50,000 feet skyscraper and looking down at everything, feeling dizzy. You’re mad Dvorahji. 😀
I’m actually hoping to drive my friends so CRAZY & SPACED OUT – that they don’t care anymore IF they’re enlightened or NOT! THEY’LL JUST BE IN A DAZE OF THEIR OWN REFLECTION! And be sure to wear all your rings, bracelets and carry a rose close to your face at ALL TIMES like a teddy bear so you feel secure with nature….
can I carry a dianthus flower? How about a peony, a geranium or a begonia? Or impatiens blooms? or gardenias, dahlias, clematis, chrysanthemums, petunias, salvia? andonandon…. LOL
