Most people cannot accept themselves. They can’t accept their thoughts, their feelings, their decisions, their actions…they wish they could change them and they spend a lifetime, regretting what they’ve said and done and that relates outward into their relationships, into the world.
They can’t stand what happens in the world, and then they can’t stand God for making it happen. They hate him, they love him, they fear him, they adore him and on and on. It’s a life-long struggle with: gimme/gimme, blessme/blessme/saveme/sav
eme, loveme/loveme….BUT THERE IS NO PEACE, with themselves, with the world, with God.
They’re always struggling, manuevering, pleading with God to make life different then it is. Always wanting to control their bodies, minds, earthly or celetial worlds. Always wanting life to go “their way”, how they envision it. It’s great to have a cause, to make things better for yourself and others, so why not do your bit and recognize that life has a way of doing it’s own thing regardless of your desires and efforts. Many times it will go your way – but often it won’t.
I tell you it’s a waste of life to constantly fight with all your thoughts and emotions and desires and efforts. It’s time to relax and accept yourself exactly as you are and recognize that your struggles are a product of the mind, of Life itself. It’s time to say: Hey, this is my personality, this is my life, this is the world and I do the best I can, even if I think I don’t.
Look-if you’ve already come this far, to ask this question of a crazy Dvorahji on the internet, speaking some radical truth –then why not go completely WILD? WHY not just JUMP in and accept yourself exactly as you are and BE HAPPY? What have you got to lose, confusion, doubt, unahappiness, regret, guilt, misery? Go Ahead honey – Jump In!
Love you, Dvorahji
I’m gonna give you a smack if you don’t wake up & accept yourself soon!
the first thing I ask new clients, patients or customers is: in what ways are you flawed? Not once has anyone said i’m without flaws. The flaws they come up with have never really been flaws at all. It’s always laughable and humorous for all concerned.
Actually, all your flaws, problems, concerns even thoughts are there on the surface….If you go see a good a astrologist, numerologist, joytish – he tell you everything about yourself. He’ll even give you a clue into the movements of your life past & present & future and if he’s really really good, he’ll say this to you & maybe you’ll never goback for another reading:
“See! The past is gone, the present is happening, and the future is a thought in your mind. And everything you EVER, thought, felt or did HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU! Why ? Because if an objective person like me can see it, then it’s just like a BOOK WRITTEN IN THE WIND. IT’S There for everyone to read! So how personal is THAT????? LIFE moves along and leaves a trace in the stars and numbers of LIVENESS ITSELF, and YOU are not any of it—HOWEVER, YOU ARE EVERYTHING. ALL this activity of “your” mind, body, world & beyond come from EVERYTHING – which is YOUR NATURE.”
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerEnlightenment is Being 100% NATURAL-JUST NATURAL-Look at SriSri or other Gurus-they’re natural-completely themselves. They R silent when they R silent: Speak when they speak: Laugh when they laugh: Yell when they yell. They don’t constantly think about what it all means-THEY JUST DO!-on to the next moment.PLAY GURU-be natural-Don’t Be ashamed of URself. Just say: “OOOPS-I did it again!”(Isn’t that a song?)-& MOVE ON
I wish I could confirm that… I’ve met the love of my life, Dvorahji, Mimi. And thanks to you, all I had to do was: nothing. Chill. Show up. Smile. And have my heart captured. Blessings and peace to you, love. First invite to the wedding is you!
I hate that song 😉 But it finally suited somewhere 😉 I am so grateful to have him (Sri Sri) in my life… He’s so Adorable… Like you, like me, like everyone whose reading this or not reading this 😀
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerUNHAPPY? Wait til you discover you don’t even exist & are an unfathomable INFINITE bundle of energetic thoughts, feelings & matter moving in & out of space. If that doesn’t blow your mind & get you out of your funk, I don’t know what will! Relax & just live your life as it shows up. No regrets.
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerWorrying about your PURPOSE in life is a waste of time. One year your purpose is to be a teacher: Next year it changes. You feel great when you have a purpose & you feel depressed when you don’t. Purpose COMES & GOES…relax until another purpose shows up…don’t be so impatient. It is as IT IS.
INDEED! And, how awesome it is when we discover our purpose!!! I just love to figure those things out… the thing is that we constantly do stuff and we dont even know it! Who knows how many read these posts and it awakens something in them!? I think its amazing… the posibilities are endless; I love it! At the same time, one could put down …See More
So true! Thank you for the reminder, Dvorahji! My purpose used to be in i.t. (systems analyst), then it was teaching, then a healer, now healer and coach. Usually people let me know what my purpose is… Are you listening for yours?
The whole Univese is in synch with itself as it just goes along in its oscillations and changes every moment it exists as this is how one exists through change and not by plan…plans are a form of suffering or Dukkha and cannot be put in a cardboard box for use later on…enjoy Sweet Angel of God(+) Dom*:)
“…I do not see anything, I do not know anything… what remains is bliss, the waves of bliss, the tidal waves of bliss…bliss is all that remains…In bliss thou art full…thy grace is full…thy light is full… the fullness of my life… thou art full my lord…In fullness of thy being I adore thee, In fullness of thy being I adore thee, In …See More
“…Thy Glory is full, Thy Grace is full, to the fullness of my life thou art full, my lord. And the world is the abode of thy grace, I am the temple of thy light, I am the way to thee, My lord thou art the Goal in me.. My lord, my love, my God From the window of my heart the light of thy alter comes and overtakes my being It overthrows my world, and I do not see anything, I do not know anything, what remains is bliss, the waves of bliss, the tidal waves of bliss, bliss is all that remains, in bliss thou art full, thy grace is full, thy light is full, to the fullness of my life thou art full, my lord In fullness of thy being I adore thee, infullness of thy being I adore thee, In fullness of thy being I adore thee…”
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerIF you want to BE Enlightened”- it’s really very easy. Repeat after me: LIFE IS A HAPPENING…YOU ARE NOT THE DOER…BAD & GOOD KARMA COME & GO…WE BLAME NO ONE: And we know deep in our hearts (even if we freak out) that: IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT, IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT…
LIFE IS A HAPPENING…I AM NOT THE DOER…KARMA COMES & GOES…THERE IS NO POSSIBLE BLAME: And I know deep in my heart (even if I freak out) that: IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT, IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT…
Karma is a thought…but thought itself is an infinite mystery, like Karma is a myriad of something or other doing something or other…it’s really quite astounding, how this manifestation works, crazy mysteriously AWESOME….REMEMBER THE MYSTERY, NOT THE DEFINITIONS…
“Karma is a thought”…IS A THOUGHT that should take you compLETELY out of your head and into SPACE, because it’s such an outlandish statement…Be sure to marvel at these statements – not JUST put them into another department of knolwedge………….and by the way DO LIVE AS IF YOU HAVE NO KARMA, because you will NEVER FIGURE it out, so why even bother???…Just live your life without this added “karma/schmarma worry!!!
Assuming there is “karma”, or inherited genes to predispose people in certain direction, we must remember that we have FREE WILL and we can change many things…. we are no “actors” thrown in the world stage… and if some people believe we are, I’ll say… don’t follow the script… add your own music and dance steps…shut up… as Dvorahji said… dance, and be happy. LOVE TO ALL
Pilar, love you I do, however I disagree with you completely….The appearance of free will is very strong isn’t it? But in truth: “Deeds are don’t and there is no individual doer!”–Buddha…….(from my perspective) Free will is one of those wonderful illusions that we cling to that makes us miserable. Why? Because if we have free will, why can’t “we” make decisions that benefit us, that make life go our way? And my answer is BECAUSE! YOU ARE NOT THE THINKER, FEELER OR DOER, and sometimes life goes your way and sometimes IT DOESN’T. AS a matter of fact MOST of the time it doesn’t.
You can still dance and make music and shut up and be happy, BUT IT’S ALL IN THE SCRIPT…AND what I’m talking about here is not an intellectual discussion on how Karma works, or how the body works or how free will works……The hardest THING for the seeker to understand is that LIFE IS A MYSTERY AND HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW ANYTHING WORKS…Although he sure THINKS he does……..So yea…be happy, dance, play do what you want, make decisions, excercise your “FREE WILL” ….just DO WHAT YOU DO AND BE HAPPY!
Hmmm… I thought I’ve chosen to become your fan by exercising my free will… I don’t know much about Buddha but I heard he’s pesimistic. I thought also that I have taken big decisions, turning points in my life…. was all that written??? If Karma is just a thought then there was nothing written….. I can’t complain the way things are flowing in my life. LIFE IS A MYSTERY…. : )….. Just watched “A serious man” by the Cohen brothers…. great movie. And Now, by exercising my free-will I’m going to do my breathing techniques Sudarshan Kriya and going to sleep and wake-up refreshed in the morning…. or maybe not? Would love to meet you in person to have a serious Laughing Retreat. A laugh a day keeps the doctor away. Lo
ts of love to all.
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerUR always trying to get away from stress! LIFE is STRESS! Changes-ups-downs-success-failure is life HAPPENING & is STRESSFUL by IT’S Nature!
Stress is part of the wavy flow of the journey… it is never the destination, nor its part of it… when our journey is over, i believe there will be such a lack of stress that we will not even have time to miss it due to the state of awesome joy one would be found in… but thats the future i am talking about… something totally speculative of which I know nothing about lmao but hey! it entertains! hahaha Stress is part of growth, plants wont grow without some amount of stress… seeds wont sprout… guruji says something about pain that is similar… stress… pain… youd argue if pain and stress are not similar in this way… personal growth has its taste of pain or stress or both in order to bring you new experiences from which one grows! Indeed, an integral part of life! We may fight it as much as we want… but life will always throw events in our way… until we grow!
“….life will always throw events in our way… until we grow!” Actually, “life will always throw events in our way PERIOD-Enlightened or not. And our bodies will RE-ACT accordingly, enlightened or not. And BLISS actually brings it’s own stresses on the body. Joy is a sensation a feeling like any other and it comes & goes like all other feelings, in the enlightened as well. It’s not a permanent state, it CAN’T BE, as it’s associated with the body/changing world.
Stress & life/body are synonomous, Enlightened or not. That’s why the enlightened get cancer like everybody else or are in pain like everybody else. THEIR TAKE ON IT IS JUST DIFFERENT, they handle/APPEARS differently – but it still hurts (is a strong sensation). People have this misconception that “stress stops” if we just “grow enough. The second you’re born stress begins, gravity begins, life begins, the body & mind concept begins.
The POINT REALLY IS…don’t get “stressed out of shape” when you realize it NEVER GOES AWAY FOREVER (it’s not something to look forward to, because you’ll waste your “stressful life” trying to get rid of it….
Recognize IT FOR WHAT IT IS and move on to the next moment whether it’s joyful of NOT…
Dvorah, this is great. I thought for a long time that stress disappears when we become enlightened. It does not disappear. We just handle it better. Be one with your giggle. Love ya!
This is beautiful indeed. What I meant was on a situation per situation basis. With “stress until we grow” i meant that a certain situation will continue to be stressful until we grow. Which means that we obtain the necessary mindset, or tools to properly deal with said situation, in which case that same situation will no longer be a source of stress in the future, because it is known how to manage it. Needless to say, stressing issues will never stop coming… 🙂 That is life! The difference is as you say Dvoraji, how we react to these issues. How thick is our spring… do we spring very far when we react? It will all boil down to experience… experienced people often know how to deal with stuff better than others… they are not invincible or exempt from downfalls or going gung-ho because something happens to them… but they have pretty good chances of not springing too far when reacting to stressing events… XD I always considered my father to be like that… while my mother would go nuts and sometimes would yell… my father would take things calmly and talk his way through… often resolving any issue in tranquility… 😀
Well, Jorge, that’s all true AND…REACTion IS IN THE MOMENT, really no past of future, so you never know how you will react really, no matter how much training or experience you have. Example: I love my daughter, I know we’re both pitta’s, hot tamales. We’ve both had a lot of experience/meditation/knowledge/whatever and lots of experience wanting to kill each other over Nada…so you’d think, that “THIS TIME IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT”……but it just isn’t or sometimes it IS… Sometimes she does/says something and I/she lets it go and SOMETIMES, I/she screams our heads off and the next second, we’re peaceful at rest again…
It is the nature of the person, the system, the diet at that moment, the circumstances, that determines how POEPLE DEAL WITH THEIR STRESS/LIFE…Your Mama, well she was hot, body was sensitive to heatd (internally & externally) – Your dad well his planets/stars/liver/ bile WAS IN A DIFFERENT PLACE… AT some point people ACCEPT THAT their bodies & mind (and every thought feeling & action ) is really a matter of their genetics/body/type/circumstances/and on & on – ONE BIG HAPPENING IN THE MOMENT – AND OUT OF THEIR CONTROL!………….You think you got it down and thennnnnnnnnnnn along comes someone stealing your Guchi bag and you’re in a DITHER or NOT!
THE POINT REALLY IS…you are who you are AT ANY MOMENT…you just think you can control it……..The enlightened aren’t any different. Some Guru’s are HOT, and some are mellow, and some can’t stand leaving their little HUT!
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerSri Sri: “The purpose of words is to create silence”……When the student is ready, even a Fortune Cookie can bring you HOME! Doesn’t matter so much who your teacher is, what your Sadhana is: What does MATTER is how ready YOU ARE. So RELAX, You will never miss YOUR moment, impossible. You have no RECOURSE BUT TO COME HOME.
I am in for the Fortune Cookie… wonder where in India I can find one.??.. These gurus are not doing it for me no more no more no more no more… la la la hit the road guru, hit the road… when jack says this is the last shack… I’ll rather hit the waves in stead… I’m in for the oceanic relaxation and mindless lion roar
ing … woohhaaaa!! Kisses to you D..
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerDon’t get stuck on every CONCEPT that floats through UR mind-Move Along from one moment to the next-Relax & open to the adventure of UR life
BTW, it not so much what you do as WHO YOU ARE…The thoughts, feeling & actions will continue to be the ADVENTURE OF YOUR LIFE…Don’t get stuck on the adventure, the concepts of life…JUST LIVE IT, JUST MOVE ALONG without stopping at everything thought feeling & action – wondering if “it could have been different, better, more evolutionary”…Apologize if you need to; feel sorry if you need to; THEN MOVE ALONG…continue without all this rationalization, analyzation, mental constipation…Say good-bye to the last thought-feeling-action (good or bad) and Move ON!
I sorta do that . . . but, sometimes I’m on a ‘time line’ and rushing around to pick up the teens after school (my little part time job) and try to fit in running those errands, and end up getting sorta ‘involved’ in shopping or returning things, lol !! and have to rush to finish up ~ I just did that yesterday! I prefer not to be rushing anywhere and yet, I find I do ….. so I guess it’s to relax about that and be happing to even be rushing sometimes . . . ? and ‘if I have any choice’, (which at this point along the journey it certainly doesn’t look like I do) ‘ I can try to leave the house ‘earlier’, try to move slower, get more enjoyment, rather than ‘rushing’ …. or go on ‘another’ day when it’s more ‘open ended 🙂 and stroll store to store rather than brisk walking …. 🙂 love you !! ♥
@Tanbir – you worded it so perfectly – YES !! so clear and basic, which is so helpful as it leaves the mind with really nowhere to go! ( Sigh of relief!! ) I loved the prayer she did on here last week ….. fold your hands and say ‘I want nothing’ . . . mmm. I have been using that one recently and it’s so very helpful. Thanks for being yourself, D …… thanks for sharing with all of us. I hope we can ‘do lunch’ sometime this summer …… looks like I will be in ‘Camarillo’ in the later part of June for my nieces graduation party, and then on to OC to see a new grand daughter, who is due ‘any minute’ now !! 🙂
This makes me think of life as a river that continues to flow happily over everything that comes in its path, and the babbling sounds of the river are like the sounds of loving laughter. Be one with your giggle. 8))
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerSometimes when you are talking about knowledge, you get dry, intellectual. If life is a story-Let it be a juicy ONE! Devotion is Yummy!
Yes, some spice.. some flavor… some aroma..make it tempting… mouthwatering… delightful … and heavenly!! Thanks Dvorahji… I am your biggest fan. Your crispy posts are great appetizers and make the spiritual food easily digestible… Thanks for all the care that you take of your friends- Jai gurudev!!
Life is also quite comical. We do end up laughing at the moments we felt were horrible at a later date. I like this little bit of wisdom. Be one with your giggle.
Now darlings, don’t get stuck on “wanting it to be juicy” all the time, that’s also a trap…can’t be squeezing oranges day & night!…just don’t be afraid to have fun, laugh, dance, be silly, hug, kiss and eat ice cream…don’t get intellectually dry with all these spiritual stories of what’s what. Just look at the sky, your finger, that AWESOMENESS/WONDER WILL TAKE YOU RIGHT OUT OF YOUR HEAD!
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler“When your real, effortless, joyful nature is realized, It will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life”-Ramana….In OTHER words Get IT! and then GO OUT AND GIVE IT as life flow your “effortless, joyful NATURE” out into ordinary Life. EAT, DRINK, MEDITATE, TALK, TRAVEL, SING AND BE HAPPY!
Yes Nitin, it is all completely effortless…it’s our thoughts that make it difficult, gluppy!…In actuality, life is light, just moving along doing it’s thing, right?
One minute you’re happy next minute you’re sad, next minute you’re eating, next minute you’re on the computer, then you get a phone call, now you’re angry, then there’s a knock at the door with your delivery, and you’re happy again and on andon andon just moving along, effortlessly…
Hi Dvorahji, I really enjoyed your comments on meditation, however as I’m technologically challenged also I didn’t know how to add my comment on the blog. So here it is: “Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; meditation is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased. Meditation is not control of thought, for when thought is controlled it breeds conflic in the mind, but when you understand the structure and origin of thought, then thought will not interfere” KRISHNAMURTI “FREEDOM FROM THE KNOWN” (1969)
Krishnamurti, (wrote this in 1969) and to me he is very very confusing in 2010, there are far simplier/ more fun teachers…So from my perspective what he said can be said very simple this way: TRUE meditation is your NATURE – SO when you are ALREADY in true meditation: 1. mind is alert 2. understanding of totality is evident 3. Thoughts come and go and they don’t ‘BOTHER THE STATE OF MEDITATION.
Intellectuals love krishnamurti and others do to – for me I fall asleep listening to him…although truth can always resonate with someone who hears it. And He was very cool in his own way.
Nicely simplified! I only have 2 of the books which contain his lectures, my favorite is “Freedom from the Known”, he also said that you can meditate at any moment, sitting in a bus or walking in the woods, reading a book if you are 100% into it. Thanks for your comment.
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerWhat in THIS LIFE are you hanging on to? Pizza, graduation, birth, marriage, Olympics, bliss, Meditation, Guru, medal, another orgasm? They all fade the instant the experience ends. The second U leave UR mother-husband-child they dissapear-GONE! It’s a “thought” of them that brings them back! IT’S AN OPEN FIELD OF EXPERIENCE HAPPENING! Bow your head RIGHT NOW and say: I WANT NOTHING…and see what happens.
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerDon’t Worry BE Happy means-NOTHING goes well “all the Time!”-so UNDERSTAND you are in the lap of the DIVINE ALWAYS, HELP is on the way-Relax…
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerUntil you let go of UR Idols (concepts) U will continue to be uncomfortable with your/other’s thoughts-feelings-actions. Either regretting OR wanting to control them. What are U holding on to? SPACE! Phantom particles moving thru SPACE. Keep your concepts-just recognize them for what they are & move on; smiling, dancin…
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerMEDITATION is ur Nature-Concentration is NOT meditation it’s CONCENTRATION. Relax/open into UR Nature-let go in freedom; THAT’S MEDITATION.
I think, Concentration in meditation – looking at the center in between the two brows, start of the nose, is a way to mingle the Soul with the Supreme Soul – the Super Consciousness – the God.
So, when we concentrate the ever thinking, ever jumping mind, our sixth sense, it is just a way to Still the mind and make it thought less and let all other cells of the body figure out its job.
After just 20 mins of concentration, we find that the problems of the Body solved. for example, if a person has Constipation, he can concentrate on a job, and he gets the TRIGGER to go to Toilet and cleanse the body.
Thought Influence, Interfere with body clock and body cell functions, thats why we get Diseases.
So, a little Concentration once in a while is necessary to Silence the Thoughts and direct our Inner Radar to Cosmic rays.
With all due respect Pasupati..what you have described (is your understanding). From my perspective this is not TRUE MEDITATION. If this works for you and makes you happy, wonderful. However, I am not interested in Cosmic Rays, constipation, body cell functions, supreme soul, super consciousness or CONTROLLING THOUGHTS….Here’s what I advocate for MEDITATION.
Dear Dvorahji: I have tried countless of meditations and I still have not found any stillness nor the gap between the thoughs? I have heard that as we become aware of the gap between the thoughs the gap increases but I can not even find the smallest gap. It has been said that we have abouth 60,000 thoughts per day. I seem to have those 60,000 thoughts in one meditation. I call it a chaotic meditation and it gets frustrating. Any advice on how can I find even the smallest gap? Darling One: From my perspective, most meditations are a waste of time, especially for people like you. Meditation is usually sitting in a disciplined environment, “trying trying and then trying some more to get rid of your thoughts through concentration and finding “the gap” (a truly illusive concept for most people). It’s actually at the point when the mind finally let’s go, that you can call your practice ‘Meditation”. Before that point, it should be called, “hours of discipline and CONCENTRATION. BUT Meditation – it’s absolutely NOT!.
Now I don’t want to cause trouble in the spiritual community, HOWEVER, I feel that here is where many well known spiritual techniques and practices have blown it!. Hours and hours and years and years of sitting and concentrating, waiting for the moment when the mind finally gets COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED, and you finally, finally drop into your own “thought-less” TRANSCENDENT BEING OR in American terms “the gap”, (sounds like the clothing store to me).
A true meditation technique should begin where all the concentration ends, it should start at the point of “LETTING GO”. It’s still a discipline, because you sit down and you stay there for a certain length of time HOWEVER – there is NO CONCENTRATION, only letting go.
It’s unfortunate that so many people have been turned off to meditation because all they experience is sitting there and watching a zillion thoughts go by, while looking for that illusive gap! Ridiculous. Most teachers who teach meditation don’t have a clue what meditation is.
The good news is ” That many more teachers who teach meditation DO!. You need to find ONE THAT DOES, and then for the first time you will experience TRUE MEDITATION.
IF you’re interested, my recommendations are: 1. Sahaj Samadhi Meditation – taught through the Art of Living organization 2. Transcendental Meditation – taught through the TM organization (however it’s extremely expensive)
And of course, LIFE IS A HAPPENING – and you will FALL INTO “BEING” MEDITATION WHEN IT’S TIME…meanwhile my personal suggestion is find a great meditation teacher with a “letting go technique”.
Love Dvorahji
PS. BTW – Thoughts are a part of meditation, contrary to what most people believe…they come and go in formal meditation like they do in life…And what do you do when they come and they go? You, go back to the mantra and there you go “letting go” back into SPACE AGAIN, back into MEDITATION, you Nature. Get a good teacher and if you already have one…go get your meditation checked, you’re probably straining…..Happy meditating…Medit
tion is YOUR NATURE….have fun!
A person gets cancer then with “Full immersion” meditates, does everything he can to get rid of the disease and dies of it anyway. FULL IMMERSION DOES NOT “always” end in “postive things happening automatically”. Many time the negative happens anyway! People meditate, concentrate, doing all their asanas and japa for years and their life is stillWHACK!
From my perspective you do what you can…and know that whatever happens (and it’s not always positive) IS WHAT IT IS AND YOU STAY IN PEACE even when it doesn’t go positive or “your way” . Effort does not equate with success. Your own experience should verify that.
Pasupati, NOTHING LASTS LONG…Please, READ SOME OF MY POSTS, you’ve got some basic misunderstandings about thoughts, thoughtless state, bliss…You seem to want that stuff to last and that’s impossible…If you’re interested in what I have to offer, you need to read my book posts/videos and see if it serves you.
If the Swami is your Guru, better just go deeply into his teaching and do whatever he tells you and leads you to do…Take one path and let it lead you deeply into YOURSELF.
Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerConfusion leads to growth-Relax, let confusion shake u up as it does it’s job-IT’s a ride! Everything is fine-doing exactly what IT needs to
Yes Yes and Yes! Fear & anxiety are products of the mind and body. Anxious, breath/body starts doing it’s thing, fear, the breath/body starts doing it’s thing. IT’s all very very physical isn’t it? Heart starts racing, breathing start going, anxiety sets in. That’s why breathing excercises/yoga is so coooL.
Anxious/Fear? Slow down your breathing. If you can’t – THEN be anxious for awhile for NO REASON (what choice do you have?) SO WHAT? SO YOU’RE ANXIOUS – Have some milk honey and a big fat banana with a chaser of Valarian, you’ll be fine.
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler“Love for others is the RESULT of SELF-knowledge, not it’s cause!”-
nisargaddatta……People are always trying to love each other, aren’t they?
But does it work? Do you love your girlfriend all the time? OR your mother all the time? Or your friends/co-workers all the time? Relax with your concepts/feverishness/guilt over Love & BE LOVE. LOVE IS YOUR NATURE.
I’m always surprised at this madness to try and love each other and then being so irate at ourselves and others when we/they don’t. If you would just notice that “love as an emotion” comes and goes like everything else. Love is my Nature, but you don’t see me professing my loooooooveeeeeee for everybody by giving them time, or money or invitingthem over, do you? and by the way, I DON’T LOVE EVERYBODY….especially people that bug me or are rude, hurt my feelings or just Yuck me up! Fortunately, I don’t hold on to my distaste or negative feelings. WhY? cause those feelings come & go.
HOWEVER, I do acknowledge that LOVE is OUR NATURE and in the big picture, YEA, WE ARE ALL ONE, CAUSE THERE IS ONLY THIS.
So please, do NOT get in a TWIST because you can’t love everybody as yourself in a very ordinary way. It’s enough you know deep in you’re heart that we are all ONE/LOVE without a second and do the best you can in the “love” department
Pasupati, it’s time for you to start having some fun!!! Your picture is far toooo serious….No one forces you to do ANYTHING…IT’S NOT THEM, IT’S YOUR PERCEPTION…Tomorrow when you go to work, bring everybody who you think is “stopping” you from being happy and “seeing your emotional side”, some DONUTS or something yummy to eat at break time. Put a big smile on your face, and for just ONE day, walk into work happy, looking at all those people as if they were “round happy colorful” M&M’s candy – just doing their jobs.
For one day , see them walking around in their colorful underwear doing the best THEY KNOW HOW TO DO, AND everytime they tell you what to do, put a smile on your face and say: Yes Sir (and imagine them in their cartoon or hearts underwear). Then chuckle to yourself and REALIZE —–THEY DO WHAT THEY DO AND…YOU DO WHAT YOU DO and that’s how the world works….
…..and by the way…If you haven’t taken the ART Of LIVING.ORG breathing course, go for it…IT WILL loosen you up, get rid of the stress and make you happy! (and if you have taken it, take the second part and then a DSN course) and you should be good to GO FOR A LONG WHILE! Baby it’s time for you to do a little YOGA and breathing……. love you Pasupati, Dvorah-gee! (I wear Mini-Mouse granny style underwear!)
pasupati, i am “seriously” looking forward to a smiling fb photo one day soon. perhaps dvorajhi can lend you one of her hats–you can buy your own mickey mouse underwear:-)
AHHHHHHHHHHHH, Pasupati, I have a profile of a picture of a bald eagle looking right at me on the wall above my desk. And the “caption” under it says: “I AM SMILING!”… and it’s hilarioussssssss. So I would say that those “Gurus” picture’s said: “I am smiling!” even tho they looked like they were going to pierce right through you……..
So from now on when I see your picture, I’ll think: ” Pasupati is smiling!”——-But remember, you’re friends with me, Dvorahji and I AM NOT SERIOUS….EVER! and laugh at everything especially Osho ( what a sex maniac) and Jesus (getting himself crucified, totally stupid!) and Krishna (and all his escapades with his Gopis) and Buddhas (well Buddha is adorable) and especially Lord Shiva! (What a freak with that snake around his body!) So in a way, being serious to me IS A CRIME, unless you’re smiling inside or at least cursing!
I may not understand Shiva, but BABY – I AM SHIVA, AND BABY i have NO AUTHORITY from anyone AT ALL TO SPEAK ABOUT SPIRITUALITY except my own experience!!…SO your best bet is to go to someone who has authority and ABSOLUTELY read the news, be serious and study Hinduism.
Everyone finds his own way…and OBVIOUSLY I’m not your way…There are many great Gurus for you to DELVE INTO and take seriously (and of course your Hinduism is important to you). I suggest you CHOOSE ONE and wholeheartedly completely with no reservation, NONE – go deeply into that Path.
Sending you all my love and blessings (like a MOM not a Guru)- and you can always contact me personally and tell me the “good News” as to how you are doing.
The thing that has always turned me ON about Shiva – IS THE SNAKE…HE’S my kind of Guy! And Krishna can seduce me anytime, I’m always ready for a little Krishna Leela RASA…and Dvorah means “Honey bee”…and my honey is gathered in Space…In all adoration of those ADORABLE ONES THAT have come before me and offered their nectar….
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Dvorahji Dvorah AdlerPositive thinking, Law of attraction are the INFANT STAGES of spirituality (many old time Seekers are going back to infancy-STOP!) You’ve stuck your toe into the spiritual pool & find pleasure in the surface. Why not dive IN? Drop all your mind & body manipulations & with open arms DIVE NAKED, NO DEMANDS into the cool vast ocean of PEACE.
“…Lowest state on the spiritual path is the mumuksha (liberation seeker)…He always tries to get benefit, gains or losses from the body/mind sense…” – Nissargaddatta p.s. I always thought mumuksha meant “gimme gimme more”….
Or VERY WET! – NO guarentees & take your chances…BUT anything’s gotta be better then waiting for that Mercedes, playboy soulmate OR Jesus to come back!
So Rajoo, your question is “how to dive into that pool of peace?”–My status is an invitation, a recognition not at order or direction of HOW…Everyone finds their OWN HOW! How are you finding your ocean of peace? Yoga, meditation, teacher, Guru, Sadhana etc are a good BET…AND A little encouragement from Dvorahji saying: “DIVE IN HONEY, THE WATER IS FINE…and relax, you are well taken care of!!”….continue with your life/sadhana, without feverishness or concern…
My son is coming over for Valentines DAY and we are going to make another hilarious music video…will post it and drive all of you crazyyyyyyyyy…The title? (I I just can’t give it away yet? But you’ll recognize it)
U.G.Krishnamurthi… also maintained that the reason people came to him (and to gurus), was in order to find solutions for their everyday real problems, and/or for solutions to a fabricated problem, namely, the search for spirituality and enlightenment. He insisted that this search is caused by the cultural environment, which demands conformity of individuals as it simultaneously places within them the desire to be special – the achievement of enlightenment thus viewed as a crowning expression of an individual’s “specialness” and uniqueness. Consequently, the desire for enlightenment is exploited by gurus, spiritual teachers, and other “sellers of shoddy goods”, who pretend to offer various ways to reach that goal. According to U.G., all these facilitators never deliver, and cannot ever deliver, since the goal itself (i.e. enlightenment), is unreachable.[1]
IT IS F-ING UNREACHABLE…AND THAT’S THE POINT EVERYBODY MISSES…hear me…UNREACHABLE….one big unfathomable incredible, unbelievable, AWESOMELY MEANINGLESS MYSTERY…AND THE DEEPER YOU GO INTO THIS MYSTERY, the more mysterious it BECOMES…and for me “enlightenment is your Nature”…is recognizing YOU ARE THE MYSTERY, and somewhere along the line this search to get “enlightened” ends….But that Vastness is more intriguing and STEADY & PEACEFUL & BIGIGIGIGIGIGI and ISSSS – then any search is possible…and it’s infinitely OPEN , you can’t even say infinite because IT JUST IS and YES YES YES, IT IS YOUR NATURE…
meanwhile, move along, keep moving until THAT SPACE SWALLOWS YOU WHOLE!!!~!!
u.g. had a good point, but his negativity got everyone down after a while. dvorahji, on the other hand, keeps the party going. & going. that’s it. dvorahji, you are the energizer guru!
Interesting as always. I was thinking i was greate, since i wanted to be enlightened, it must be the best goal… haha , but in the beginning i think it’s okay, then move on. Now i do sadhana, and whatever happends happends, but i do recognize that i have one million thoughts that i will get rid off… but i just do it, and don’t think so much about it anymore(sometimes i do). Even Guruji have thoughts right? I do my best at this early stage….hm so the goal is not to Not have thought but to be happy. 🙂 Or do we have any goal? Confused…. but it’s okay hehe
Getting rid of thoughts is one of the MAIN THOUGHTS seekers get STUCK on! You will NEVER get rid of thoughts. The mind thinks, that’s what it is designed to do. It’s like trying to get rid of your breath. Breathing is what your system is designed to do, right?…Thoughts WILL ALWAYS COME AND GO. You can stop thoughts for awhile with breathing excercises, some yoga, Samadhi, etc…But as soon as you begin to walk out of the meditation hall and “wonder where your shoes are” – you’re off and thinking again.
Even teachers/yoga teachers/meditation teachers, who have been teaching for a long time, still DON’T GET IT: Thoughts are a part of formally “doing” meditation. Thoughts, mantra, silence, thoughts mantra silence, THEN NO THOUGHT NO MANTRA AND THEN……….OFF WE GO AGAIN, THOUGHTS, MANTRA SILENCE AND ON AND ON….
TRUE MEDITATION which has nothing to do with the mind OR a technique…is 100% relaxation into your NATURE, AT PEACE WITH SELF-YOUR NATURE. Formal meditation will always have thoughts at one point or other and like life you just keep doing it and when it’s over it’s a great excercise and you feel great or NOT, but at least you “think” you’ve done something great for yourself and the environment.
I like meditation, and eventually you do get glimpses, (full relaxation) into your Nature…keep mediating, but withOUT this ferver of :”oh I got a million thoughts to get rid of!”….THAT IS the thought that’s screwing you up.
Sit down, close the eyes, be stillllll, start your mantra and offfffffffffff you go – until you’re time is up. And group meditation are always GREAT!
I actually don’t know anything about UG, except he was very eccentric and around at the same time as KrishnaMurti. It’s easy to get mesmerized by “uniqueness, and I think UG was supposedly unique in his expression of “his” state, but he wasn’t very people friendly and kinda weird and he didn’t come from a tradition, I think?
I come from a tradition of HAPPY (let’s save the world and make them happy too) GURUS, so it makes sense that I would take that route. Maharishi was happy, but serious about his mission, Sri Sri, is even happier, and also serious about his mission. I’m happy and could basically give a YUCK! BUT still they’ve trained me to share, share share, and there really is nothing more fulfilling that knowing that someone is happier then they were before and recognizes that they can really DROP ALL THAT NONSENSE they’ve been carrying around – cause LIFE IS A HAPPENING AND IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT IT WOULD.
I leave Enlightenment up to the BIG GURUS, I’M here to move you along until you’re SWALLOWED UP BY A BIG VAST INFINITE BOA CONSTRICTOR THAT DOESN’T LEAVE ANYTHING BEHIND!
YOU KNOW, you have no recourse but to eventually come home and relax, absolutely none!!
WHATEVER!….BEING DOESN’T THINK!..SILENCE DOESN’T THINK, you ask me a question and THINKING TAKES PLACE…MIND NOT MIND, WHAT DOES IT MATTER…IT only confuses everybody into “thinking” they shouldn’t think, that thinking is a big faux pas! WTF! from my perspective LET THE MIND THINK! You be Happy in your Nature. (that’s my advise, from my perspective & language)….
My darling friends…The greatest gift I could give you, is just to be myself, to show you (by example) how my mind & body works, keeping you in WONDER AND NON-JUDGEMENT as to how YOUR OWN BODY & MIND works: So you can be easy with your own life situation, accepting it as it comes up.
I have specifically put myself in a position so I am not beholden to you…So I don’t have anything to prove and I don’t have to show you how loving I am or how intelligent I am, or how enlightened I am. I’m not building more friends, disciples or devotees. And I’m not interested in procuring an organization to support myself, serve humanity, animals or hat lovers. I’m only interested in helping you move through your life with the least amount of mental dis-ease. until you can finally say with full confidence: PEACE IS MY NATURE. LOVE IS MY NATURE, ENLIGHTENMENT IS MY NATURE.
I want you to know that I only talk about what I’ve cognized – I don’t repeat what I’ve learned from my Guru or anyone else’s, unless I know it to be “true” in my own experience. And I encourage you to do the same. LIFE IS A HAPPENING!!! THOUGHTS ARE A HAPPENING! FEELINGS ARE A HAPPENING! ACTIONS ARE A HAPPENING! EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING is a HAPPENING!. The Divine is the doer, Even tho the appearance is strongly otherwise. You think you have a choice? You only have the appearance of choice. Again LIFE IS A HAPPENING, and if your situation could be different, it would be!
I know many of you are doing what you can to get to where you want to be and THAT’S good. ALWAYS DO the best you can, AND KNOW life is out of your control. Life is doing ITSELF. SO continue to do your best and don’t be disappointed when it doesn’t go your way, because, next time it may. This life is an AWESOMELY mysterious MEANINGLESS story that is fulfilling just in the TELLING OF IT. And we are ALL PART OF IT.
Sometimes people attribute “certain Siddhis or powers” to me, or think I know something special that they don’t know – and that’s their story, their illusion. Everyone can develop Siddhis with practice if that’s their focus. From my experience no matter how proficient a psychic, healer, or Master Yoga teacher one is – It only helps for a little while (and a very little while at that before you have another problem). I’m intuitive, like everyone can be, but mainly I’m your True friend, because I’ve got no ulterior motive, and I’m not interested in pleasing you, I want the best for you as I do for my own children. And because of my particular personality & quirks, it comes out in a particular, eccentric way, full of fire and adoration. but I want to show you the full gamete of my personality so you can SEE YOUR OWN THERE and accept it as I accept mine.
If you lived with me, this is probably what you’d say about me. How do I know? Because I’ve heard it a million times from my parents, my loves, my friends, my children: “Dvorah is Natural, eccentric and selfish, she does whatever she wants to do all the time…and she cries easily when something is touching. She has a big heart and loves deeply, individually & universally, and Yet can be cruel & unkind to her dearest loves. She can get her feelings hurt and not talk to you for a while or lash out, but it never lasts. She’s not ashamed of anything and loves fighting for what she thinks is right and has a sharp tongue & no patience for continuous stupidity. She’s fearless to a fault, except when something scares her. And she can get her feelings hurt and lash out!
She cares about everything and then cares about absolutely nothing – NADA. She’s a complete hermit and yet she doesn’t shut up when she’s with people or talking about art or an artistic nuance. I don’t understand her at all!! She never sticks to a plan and it’s hard to get her to show up on time or show up at all. It’s a wonder she accomplished so much because she’s so undisciplined. Yet she can sit for 24 hours finishing a video or writing a book. She’s a completely open-minded rebel, yet totally close minded, stubborn, uncompromising. She’s funny to a fault, making fun of the most tragic situations. All I can say is she’s eccentric and will probably never change. To know her is to love her/or NOT, but don’t ever live with her unless you surrender and let her do anything she wants.
Why am I telling you all this? Because if you want to be FREE – really FREE then you’ll relax with yourself, your personality and ALL your circumstances (thoughts, feelings, actions) and accept the concept that LIFE IS A NATURAL HAPPENING and OUT OF YOUR CONTROL.
Many of you, even after decades of meditation and enlightening experiences, great Gurus, are still terribly disappointed in your progress on your path to enlightenment. You still don’t understand why you are not “high enough, kind enough, loving enough detached enough” or WHATEVER. My writing is a CALL TO your own COMPASSIONATE ARMS, your own inner knowledge & VALOR: So you can finally RELAX into that VAST ENLIGHTENED UNKNOWN that you have ALWAYS BEEN, regardless of what you’ve “thought” about yourself and your lack or progress.
ISN’T IT TIME for you to BE with your life just as it shows up, just AS IT IS? Isn’t it time to let go of this constant dissatisfaction and regret of the past and hopeful hungering for an imaginary future, an imaginary enlightened kingdom? Isn’t it time to BECOME PART OF THE MIRACULOUS HAPPENING OF PEACE that you ARE IN THIS MOMENT by relaxing into your VERY NATURE?
Close you eyes for a moment, sitting perfectly still and easily introducing the thought: “I am Everything”, letting the thought go into space where it came…sitting in empty space for a moment, deeply relaxing into your NATURE…
All love to you, my Darlings, your honey-bee, Dvorahji
Being a Moursekateer is my NATURE….AND so is smiling from ear to ear….
thanks d-ji… it’s a really valuable lesson, the one you speak of, to accept myself the way I am
– not to keep trying to be someone I am not. the funny thing is that I still want to ‘excel’, whatever that means… i feel i have to try my hardest whenever i try to do something… but if i’m not feeling it, or if i’m not in some high mood – i have … See More
Accepting yourself and your life as it shows up, does NOT mean NOT TRYING OUR BEST. IT does however mean that when we try our best in business or in meditation, yoga, ashrams whatever, and it doesn’t “pan” out the way we want it to, we DON’T start blaming ourselves for our shortcomings, lack of discipline, attititude, slip ups in diet and on and on.
We acknowledge our state and continue to DO OUR BEST- RECOGNIZING THAT LIFE IS A HAPPENING! IT IS WHAT IT IS.
Good lord, just take a look at Sri Sri. Here He is, right? A great Rishi/Guru, he should be able to get anything done, afterall , he has the laws of nature at his disposal and is the walking Divine (according to his devotees) right? Well has he failed at some of the things he’s wanted to do? YES!!! Is there peace, happiness everywhere? NO! Is there still conflict and misery all over the world? Earthquakes, natural disasters, Murders? Yes. IS everybody who HE has taught or blessed or talked to, happy? NO!
So you see, It’s not a matter of not doing your best, it’s a matter of continuing to do your best, despite the OUTCOME. JUST because I know there is nowhere to go, nothing to do do, and nothing to say, doesn’t mean I stop writing books, making videos and singing my song….
However, this is not our personal show, IT THE SHOW, THE LILA, thoughts are thought, feelings are had, deed are done and there is no individual doer. OUR JOB IS TO CONTINUE TO DO OUR BEST, what else are you going to do?
Am I alive after all this neti neti, neighter this nor that?? I must be NO Nothing in NO personification, just dreaming this whole drama, and right now a cow is moooooing outside, but it must be a dream cow and my keybord is seemingly horrible, but in acutality it only is what it is… 🙂
We just need to relax with all our knowledge…Knowledge is fun, useful, joyful, something to talk about and play with, but it’s in the field of thoughts, feeling, activities, the world, pixilated matter…it’s all part of the “ignorant I KNOW”. …but PEACE IS YOUR NATURE and in the unfathomable field of AWE…WONDER, VAST, SPACIOUS, UNBELIEVABLE, OPEN – “I DON’T KNOW!”
It’s like this dream I used to have… where I would see myself like… outside of my body (like in 3rd person) and slowly would zoom out of that picture… until I am nothing but a dot… so far away, and there is nothingness… it was a peaceful dream… it felt as though I was in this amazingly HUGE room… or in deep space… I know it felt like it had no borders, no walls, no roof, it was totally open and nothing was there… just me… and silence…
This is a great experience of something wonderful, right? Now the “happy/wise” (like you Jorge) have an experience like this and wake up and move on, not analyzing it, not going into jungian philosophy, not praying or meditating or anticipating to have it again. They’re JUST HAPPY they had it, and now on to breakfast. They don’t think about it again UNTIL THEY DO, and then it’s like having it again IN THE PRESENT MOMENT, ISN’T IT? The trick to being happy IS accepting life & dreams as they PRESENT THEMSELVES, AND THEN MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ADVENTURE.
Most people have a great meditation or spiritual expereince and spend their WHOLE life “hoping, praying, begging” to get back to it. Never realizing that this constant WANTING TO BE SOMEPLACE esle but where they are is making them so miserable AND unable to enjoy their meditations or their life.
The trick is to Observe/ENJOY THE GOOD/PLEASUREABLE and let it go, and of course observe the bad/unhappy and let it go. That way you’re always just MOVING ALONG WITH YOUR LIFE and letting EVEYRTHING HAPPEN FOR YOUR FUN!
I actually had forgotten it, and was reminded by your post here… LOL But, yeah… I think I am quite pleased by my forgetfulness… i tend to forget quite easily… which helps me “live in the present moment” … more often… 😉
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?
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”.
Do you see? That’s why it’s so silly to say; “I am Enlightened”…Because everything is ENLIGHTENMENT. Everything is your Nature. But somewhere along the line we are struggling to “become” enlightened. It’s a UNIQUE SITUATION, really quite crazy and YET HERE IT IS.
There is no discussing it really, although we try…because the mere act of discussion turns ‘ENLIGHTENMENT” into a THING again. For me, I cannot understand it, you can ONLY BE IT and YOU ALREADY ARE. And since you already are – you can relax (go deeply into to this vast LIVENESS) and BE with your life exactly as IT IS.
I like Osho..no he’s not my guy & I read his stuff 20 years ago and occasionally will read a post by him and disagree with 90% of the way he says things and then he’ll say something brilliant.
Shut Up Lyrics (the music is an original Bhajan by Ajay, Banu’s son called: Govinda Krishna Krishna. I wrote new lyrics to it & retitled it the Shut Up song. IT’s a really beautiufl Bhajan)
Love is an ancient Mantra Love is the joy of Tantra Love is the answer for all time, for all time
I know your mind is foggy and hazy I know your body’s jumping like crazy I know you’re begging, pleading & crying for your God Stop where you are, breathe in the fresh air Laugh at your thoughts rejoicing:”I don’t care!”: Use your new mantra, singing it’s praises, Say, “Shut up”
ohhhhhhhh goodness me!!!!! Didi, the Song lyrics are toooooooooo gooooooooooooooooood and AMAZZZING!!!!! to this, i thank God Guruji my Big Brother Ranjit Anna and U. Thank You HEAPS for this BLESSING which happened in the form of Your lyrics. 🙂 Jai Gurudev!!!!
i’m surprized that no one has made a youtube video singing the Shut Up song…A group of children and adults have wanted to do it, but no one has yet…Want to? Get you’re friends together with a bunch of instruments and start out with the Bhajan and end with the Shut Up song…You can hear the Bhajan at the begining of the The “AWAKENING VIDEO” The AWAKENING #1 http://www.youtube.com/user/dvorahji#p/u/2/QxWo_u9Ndu0
WOW! n tel U something , the AWAKENING video is also NICE! it took me on a trip allllllll around and it came back to meeeeeeeeee itself!!! saying SHUT UP n BE HAPPY! hehehhehe 🙂 🙂
i’m on the way for the same!!!! hahahahahahaha seriously!!! 😀 Jai Gurudevvvvvvvvvvv!!! it is so sweeetly amazzing to see Guruji being part of Your FUN n FROLIC!!! like, that thing Guruji has, blasts back at Him.. and WE alllllll laughhhhhh Guruji is sooooooooooo thoroughly ENJOYINNNNNNNG …….. as m writing … a realisation is happening….. hmmmmm…. awe……
AHHHHHH Tony…if you’re referring to the status…then from my perspecitve it holds true for seekers that are ESPECIALLY NOT realized and sufferring needlessly.
It’s ENOUGH to be yourelf as “your” life takes you NATURALLY IN IT’S OWN WAY (meditation, gurus, god, drugs, sex, rock & toll) towards rea
lization…This constant battle and distress over not being good-enough is really QUITE ENOUGH ALREADY!
WE are always in the image of the Divine. It’s OUR NATURE.
However having said that we have to have spiritual practise or sadhana to remove the impediments from the subconscious kosas of mind….or we are at the table of the neo advaitins eating nothing on their p lates..
You know I don’t have any opinion on Sadhana or removing kosas or whatever…I can only go by my experience, that’s all I know for sure. I did 40 years of Sadhana, the works with Great Gurus…and find that my life is a SADHANA, an offering, a HAPPENING…I’m not even in a position to offer meditation or breathing or service – I leave that up to the BIG GUNS, like my Guru (who runs that particular show and it works and alleviates suffering for so many).
From my experience I can say Sadhana, a Guru WORKS or NOT. However, it works for me (whether in books, devotion, or alive. Others (for unknown reasons) don’t need either and still FULLY recognize their Open-ended Vast Nature.
I just don’t think there’s a formula here (even tho that appearance is powerful to the contrary) because the formula itself and the ONES giving the formula iare Awesomely, incomprehensible MAYA… Who-you-gonna=trust? I say: Ghostbusters!!!!
There is always a SCIENCE, a practice, a crystal, magic, a special something given by the Rishi’s, the Gods, Jesus, Krishna, Matreya, Ramtha WHATEVER…THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING that promises EVERYTHING, THE END OF ALL THE VASANAS, NO BIRTH, ENLIGHTENMENT, BABAJI (Eternally around) and it goes on & on…….
From my experience IT HAPPENS WHEN ITHAPPENS…(the path, your life, your happening, is very individual)..there is just a point when you STOP SEARCHING FOR ANYTHING…in full confidence of WHAT IS.
Until then try and do whatever you try and do to get there: Sadhana, science, poker, Bhakti…IT”s the Divine’s game, it just aint that personal (although it sure seems that way, doesn’t it?)
Mathru Sri Sarada said: ” If you can give up all thoughts and make the mind completely silent and still, then it will automatically sink into the Heart”***
My experience goes like this: SOURCE is already HERE ALWAYS and thoughts come and go within source. You do not have to get “rid” of thoughts to BE Source or be “in full awareness of source” (remember I’m trying here to describe something that’s indescribably).
And I think this is one of the BIGGEST OBSTACLES of seekers today. They are always trying to get rid of their thoughts and it’s a BIG HUGE MISTAKE OF THE intellect/MIND and causes major suffering in the sincere seeker (who does sadhana and want to experience NO thought)
The mind thinks, that’s what is does, that’s what it’s designed for. SOURCE IS and CAN co-exist with thought. It’s like have a gold ring. It looks like a ring and it’s make entirely of GOLD. Gold & ring co-exist.
Yes you can just hang out with NO THOUGHT, SPACE FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME – but if you are functioning in the world, a thought will arise “oh, I have to go to the bathroom, or what will I make for dinner” and then NO thought again. BUT THAT NO THOUGHT STATE is there AT THE SAME TIME as the thought. Thought just passes through.
NOW, LET’S TALK ABOUT THOUGHTS ONCE & FOR ALL, OK? Because this is the basis of ALL your problems!
First of all you have no control over them PERIOD. I know you “think” you do, but you DON”T. That means you have NO reason to feel guilty about them. You may not like them, but so what? You don’t like your hair either! Your thoughts are JUST like your hair! Sometimes you like it and sometimes you don’t.
Your Thoughts pass through your mind like the wind. Sometimes it’s a breeze and sometimes it’s tornado. Either way it’s PASSING THROUGH. You want to be in control, so you want to “believe” that you can CONTROL your thoughts. Well FORGET IT! Let them come and let them go and you remain AT PEACE, in your Space/HOME. (Meditation, breathing, Sadhana, deep sleep, stop them for awhile. The Main point here being for AWHILE, TEMPORARILY).
A good friend of mine said he was sitting with Guruji and he was really mad at him and he kept saying in his mind F*#@ You as he was looking at Guruji. Guruji (he reads thoughts as if you were talking to him) turned and looked at him and began to laugh and then of course my friend began to laugh because he also recognized what just happened.
Thoughts are there, they come and then they go and they are ridiculously funny. Watch your mind even for a moment. You’ll find thoughts you never even heard of! Out of the clear blue sky you’ll start blessing someone or cursing them and you think “there’s something wrong with me”. So you take a course in controlling your thoughts, changing your thoughts, positive thinking, until you’re scribbling positive thoughts on the bathroom walls.
Let me repeat for the hundredth time ALL your THOUGHTS, ALL of them, Come and then they Go, PERIOD. Whether it’s a thoughts of abuse or a thought of candy, or a thought of porno or a thought of love or a thought of killing someone. Whatever the thought. It COMES and then it GOES.
NOW when you GET THAT – you will naturally cognize that EVERYTHING comes and goes except SELF/PEACE/ENLIGHTENMENT/ HAPPINESS/GRACE/SPACE. That is Your True Nature. That INNOCENCE, that Purity, That untouched, unstained, unblemished SElF is Your True Nature. NOT, let me repeat NOT, your ridiculous, mean, sexual, nasty, murderous, angry, fabulously loving, saintly, wise, happy, ecstatic, devoted, yummy thoughts. They ALL come and Go. YOU remain a very very very COOL YOU/SELF always!! You are not your thoughts, YOU ARE EVERYTHING (that also means thoughts that come up are natural and also a part of this mystery that YOU ARE) …Comprendo?
Ok? So F@#% your thoughts. Enjoy them or don’t. Say I love you in front of Guruji, cry like baby or curse like a sailor, either way, YOU know and HE knows, they are JUST THOUGHTS. And the good news is SO ARE YOU. Dvorah, or Ellen or Tom are fabulous, unimaginable, totally un-understandable, miraculously fabulous concentrated THOUGHTS!’
This isn’t something to understand. You understand it after you have experienced it and “grok” your Nature.
YOUR images are too solid. Forget the heart and the blood and the mind. Those are very definite concepts. Just read my description as if you saw a cloud in the sky moving by. It’s not for you to understand and then make another “IMAGE OF IT”. Just relax with this and be aware that thoughts come and go and AWARENESS/SOURCE ARE your Nature. That’s all. The mind wants to understand everything. This knowledge is beyond the mind. The mind DOESN’T UNDERSTAND IT , because the mind can’t go any farther then a thought. And you are not “just your thoughts” YOU ARE EVERYTHING…relax…
you are absolutely right about trying to quiet the mind. since the brain operates the muscles, whenever there is muscular activity, there will necessarily and appropriately be continuous chatter.
When I say you are not your thoughts, you are EVERYTHING….It doesNOT mean that thoughts are not your NATURE, thoughts are part of this mystery that is YOU…they arise and part of THIS WHOLE. Seekers think that in order to be at peace they have to ‘CUT OUT” what isn’t them. But you are your thoughts tooo. Again you are EVERYTHING.
I woke up one morning and realized that thoughts were NOT even personal. They JUST WERE – coming and going in the air, moving around. How can they be personal when YOU ARE NOT PERSONAL (although the appearance is magically to the contrary).
This stuff will drive you crazy or make you feel brilliant if you sit and figure it out and think about it. But this KNOWLEDGE is to be “intuited” not known. It’s a cognition at best, not a “known intellectual truth”. You can talk about it, get the gist of it, but then when the “thought Sh@t” hits the fan, you’re back to square one, wondering what just happened. That the problem with all spiritual knowledge you think you got it, cause it begins to make sense to your mind and it’s really just another “intelligent,spiritual concept”.
You’ve got to intuit that the SPACE THAT YOU ARE is bigger (that’s the only way I can describe it) then your thoughts which comprise this world, you and everything in it.
Looks like trying to ‘figure things out’ is just…another form of striving. But we enjoy it. I often think, ‘I’ve gotta get SUPER SMART so that I don’t make any serious mistakes.’ The mind loves riddles but life has no ‘solution’. hahaha
Well you know I’m a double scorpio, so I love mysteries and secrets, but I never tell anyone mine…My girfriend always makes fun of me, because I want to “know” everything….
knowledge is fun, science, explanations are fun and interesting. All the neo-advaita explanations & discussions are also fun and interesting BUT-it’s just NOT TRUTH, it’s entertainment for the mind and the ego (same thing really)
HOWEVER, once you’ve experienced that SPACE, that infinite moment, anything can bring you home and talking about IT or reading about IT automatically puts you into that AWE.
