Ask Dvorahji: Final Guide for the Spiritually Challenged &amp; Confused

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".

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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Enlightenment & Awakening & the Shut UP lyrics....

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler Enlightenment is UR Nature;

an ongoing affirmation of this Vast, unfathomable

moment that IS. NO thought/no mantra/no

world/no you/LIVENESS

Thu at 10:20am via Twitter · Comment ·

Neelam Mohun, Kathleen Saraswati Rosenberg and 2 otherslike this.

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.

Thu at 12:05pm ·

Mary Bellamy

LIVENESS-----------that`s such a good Dvorahji word!

Thu at 12:26pm ·

Once sitting with Sri Sri I told him I wouldn't mind dying and he asked me,"Are you Alive?"...Now that's a question to hang your EMPTY HAT ON.

Thu at 2:15pm ·

Shreyans Jain

Have you read a lot of Osho? Everytime I read your updates, I get a strong thought that you have.

Thu at 9:42pm ·

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.

Thu at 9:46pm ·

Shreyans Jain

Yesterday at 6:46am ·

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Yesterday at 7:08am ·

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Dvorahji Dvorah Adler BREAKTROUGH INTERVIEWS:

Why Do You Make the Same Mistakes Over Again?

THE AWAKENINGS

http://www.youtube.com/user/dvorahji#p/u/3/rqdCh6unqZI

February 2 at 3:43pm via Twitter · Comment ·

Mariese B. Vacalares, Liz Hunyadi and Vijaya Nair like this.

You have created SUCH A FANTASTICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Spot on YOUTUBE!!!!!!! Dearessssssssst Didi I Love U !!!!!mwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :)

February 2 at 4:22pm ·

and I love your enthusiasm, IT makes me happy!

February 2 at 4:26pm ·

:) :) Didi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! U are my inspiration also yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy:*

February 2 at 4:33pm ·

Dear Dvorah Ji, cud U please facebook-email me the lyrics of "shut up n be happy 'song. :)

February 2 at 4:39pm ·

Be Pannell

Great one.. thanks Dvorah.. :-)

February 2 at 4:43pm ·

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"

Lalalalalalallall...

February 2 at 4:50pm ·

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!!!!

February 2 at 4:53pm ·

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

February 2 at 5:05pm ·

Jelena Polic

Very nice! The melody is now stuck in my head....lol...lalalalalalala

February 2 at 5:07pm ·

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 :) :)

February 2 at 5:08pm via Email Reply ·

I should have a disclaimer on the song - LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK OF HAVING IT STUCK IN YOUR BRAIN.

February 2 at 5:09pm ·

i'm on the way for the same!!!! hahahahahahaha seriously!!! :D 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......

February 2 at 5:12pm via Email Reply ·

In-sight-full

February 2 at 10:16pm ·

Jelena Polic

hahaha...I love your sense of humor Dvorah....It's still stuck in my brain and I'm loving it!!!

February 2 at 10:26pm ·

JoDalene Logan

Nice! ♥

Wed at 4:19am ·

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Seeker want to Be eveyrthing but themselves...

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler Seekers want to be everything but

themselves. They want to be kinder, more positive, more

spiritual, healthier, vegan, centered, I-less, no thoughts,

Whatever... ANYTHING BUT WHO THEY ARE. The DIVINE

breathed you into existence, ISN'T THAT ENOUGH? Relax

be happy with who you are exactly AS YOU ARE. YOU ARE

NOT TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE. YOU ARE PERFECT

The image of the DIVINE.

January 27 at 11:42am · Comment ·

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Patricia Cunningham

i can't even begin to explain how this post makes me feel. it's amazing timing - me reading it, you posting it. i love what you said here. :)

January 27 at 12:18pm ·

Harold Cowherd

I agree!!!

January 27 at 1:01pm ·

Kirsten Rose

Okay, Okay, i'll give it a go....

January 27 at 1:31pm ·

Dawn R Oughton

My eyes are wet reading this one.

January 27 at 4:42pm ·

Sumangala Sunkad

Vow, Music for the ears. I love myself as I am

January 28 at 12:33am ·

Navneet Setia

Jhakaaazzzz !!!!

January 28 at 4:28am ·

De-light-full

January 28 at 4:41am ·

Rich Florit

BEAUTIFUL!!!

January 28 at 6:13am ·

David Riewe

Ok, today I will practice accepting people, situations, circumstances and events just as they occur. Thank you

January 28 at 7:29am ·

David, use this mantra, it works:
If it Could Be Different - It Would Be Different.

And that applies to every situation you find yourself in. When it gets a little sticky in life, try it...let me know what happens...

January 28 at 10:46am ·

Cathy Ginter

I like this one too ~ thank you, Dvorahji : )

January 28 at 10:56am ·

Arti Rajvanshi

Being natural, being yourself is the best...it is the conditioning that fools us...you say it the best Dvorahji, look forward to seeing you soon!

January 28 at 11:07am ·

Cristina Pennisi

And so it is.. I agree, this is perfect! Thank you!

January 28 at 11:15am ·

Only if one is realised.....

January 28 at 11:39am ·

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 realization...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.

January 28 at 11:52am ·

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..

January 28 at 12:07pm ·

Each is individual but there is a science......you have your own sadhana that's all....who you wish to idolise is irrelevant in Bhakti.

January 28 at 2:22pm ·

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!!!!

January 28 at 2:23pm ·

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?)

January 28 at 2:49pm ·

Trying to GET RID OF THOUGHTS - IS THE SEEKERS GREATEST OBSTACLE!

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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!'

Bad vs. Good Thoughts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0BcKtSlrf4&feature=related

I'm thinking about being a rabbit and making lots of little rabbits...

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Chandelle Payen

So the mind is already in the heart and is what it is and thoughts flow through it like blood ? is that what you mean ?X

January 29 at 1:49am via Facebook Mobile ·

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...

January 29 at 3:20am ·

D.L. Dudhane

...and if you can give up all words...and wonder in silence...

January 29 at 8:19am ·

Irene Harvey

thank you! am sharing♥

January 29 at 9:10am ·

Jerry Harvey

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.

January 29 at 10:46am ·

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.

January 29 at 11:53am ·

V Shankar Srinivasan

:-) om..

January 29 at 5:07pm ·

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

January 29 at 6:42pm ·

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.

January 29 at 7:12pm ·

Kathleen Saraswati Rosenberg

Namaste, Dvorahji. ;O)

Sat at 5:23pm ·

About Thoughts & Depression

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler Seekers wonder why they have

thoughts.Thoughts come because there's NO ONE to

stop them. Get It? Relax-let thoughts come & go....

Sat at 11:36am via Twitter · Comment ·

Rich Florit, D.L. Dudhane, Neelam Mohun and 8 others like this.

The heart beats, the mind thinks... thanks for your wonderful messages, Sri Sri Sri Dvorahji !

Sat at 11:50am ·

Kristi Ann

ooooh ....good one ... ~!~

Sat at 2:01pm ·

Patty LaPlante

hmm, airhead?

Sat at 4:08pm ·

Prerna Bakshi

Sri Dvorahji i wanted to seek a clarification - is there a distinction between a good thought and a bad thought? I somehow struggle internally as I judge my thoughts and find them to be negative most times than positive....

Sat at 5:46pm ·

Yea big difference! Good thoughts feel GOOD and make others feel good because you do. Bad thoughts feel BAD and makes others feel bad cause you're usually irritated when you have bad thoughts.

HOWEVER...all THOUGHTS COME & GO bad & good. Has judging your thoughts helped you in any way? NO, I don't think so! So what good is it to judge yourthoughts? Relax and let the negative thoughts come & go - NO judgements, they're just moving through...If there's alot of them, put on some music and dance. Exercise and good food always helps...

Sat at 9:52pm ·

Prerna Bakshi

Thank you so much - will try and avoid judging my thoughts as they only make me feel miserable...

Sun at 12:43am ·

No mind if you EVEN judge or not...just say OM namah Shivaya, or halleluia or whatever whether you judge or not and move on to the next thought or action or dance. Just turn your head or feet & keep moving along...

Sun at 9:51am ·

Remove

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler If u "think" ur depressed, you are.

& if u think you're not, ur NOT. But if u let those thoughts

come & go, ur at Peace. Relax Max-move on!

January 29 at 3:05pm via Twitter · Comment ·

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Jeff Gregory

Kinda. There are chemical imbalances, Dvorahji. I wouldn't want to see someone come off medication with this quote.

January 29 at 10:12pm ·

jeff honey, people think they're depressed everytime they're bored for 5 minutes or feel tired. People need to use common sense when they read anything, I'm not passing out drugs here, I don't need a disclaimer everytime I write a status report.

Sat at 12:04am ·

Dilkhush Kohli

Perfectly relaxed ;-)

Sat at 1:13am ·

Vanessa Elizabeth G

So true! Thoughts are so temp-orary.... the key is to have the negative ones last the least time possible, and the positive ones as long as possible.

Sat at 2:25am ·

Theresa Weisskircher

are we "doing" our thoughts?

Sat at 5:07am ·

De-light-full

Sat at 6:29am ·

Alisha Ingles

or are our thoughts doing us?

Sat at 10:01am ·

Wandy Rodriguez

I think some thoughts come from fear and some come from hapiness and love....If we stay for a long period of time in fear, we go crazy...If we stay longer in love, we have a beautiful smile.

Sat at 10:24am ·

ALLLLLL thoughts come & go, and like a cold, no matter what you do, they go when they go...Having a little bhajan in your head can always be helpful or a mantra...I've always liked Om Namah Shivaya (but that's my training). "Even I use" If it could be different-it would be different".......or be still go to the space between those thoughts... Or if you're having a lot of thoughts, change the scenery, get up walk around, go outside, eat an orange...move...Relax-WHO'S doing WHAT here?

Sat at 11:20am ·

Theresa Weisskircher

yes! wonderful, thank you.

Sat at 12:16pm ·

FREEDOM & LIFE IS AWESOMELY MEANINGLESS!

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler "Freedom is another word for

nothing left to lose"-Janis Joplin. My sincere wish for

ALL my family of friends is to have NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE,

not even your body. Feel the roar, head on the floor:

FREED-OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

Yesterday at 12:09pm · Comment ·

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Gail Motyka

freedom

Yesterday at 9:55pm ·

Freedom is recognizing FULLY that "Deeds are done and there is no individual Doer". In other words: If it could be different, It would be different. IT IS AS IT IS AND you are FREE to live your life WITHOUT regret, remorse, guilt, concerns over your ego and other nonsense that you've fabricated to make you and everyone else miserable.

There are no "what ifs". Your life is exactly as it could've, would've, is, and will be. Relax and live your life in "Awesome, Wondrous, Sacred" Meaningless Freed-Om...

Yesterday at 10:43pm ·

poor Janis certainly has nothing left to lose.

13 hours ago ·

Cristina Pennisi

Great!!

13 hours ago ·

Fred LaMotte

SHUT UP!!!

12 hours ago ·

Carrie Bell

u funny!!! and to the point.

10 hours ago ·

I think Joplin sang that but Kris Kristofferson may have wrote it....It is the absolute truth of course...give up attachments and there is nothing else to lose.....

7 hours ago ·

Yes it was written by KK.

7 hours ago ·

Yes KK is a good poet.

7 hours ago ·

Or as Bob Dylan used to sing in 'Like a Rolling Stone': "When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose". haha music conversation--hadda chime in. ♥ But yeah, sometimes our attachments represent 'baggage' that we can use to immobilize ourselves. I think those songwriters understood that.

7 hours ago ·

Niru Rajagopal

This is delicious!

5 hours ago ·

LIfe Is Awesomely meaningless

- Dance Sing Be HAPPY! (at least this moment!

http://www.youtube.com/user/dvorahji#p/u/1/_vctovhDQv8

Sun at 11:13am via Twitter · Comment ·

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Carla Riechman

I loved this video the first time I saw it and still love it. Great wisdom mixed with a lot of humor. You are amazing Dvorah. Keep on laughing and be one with your giggle. Jai Gurudev

Sun at 11:18am ·

Carolin Inkmann

Great! Happy, easy, beautiful, melodious...and yet, meaningless! ♥

Sun at 11:27am ·

Sonali Shekhawat

beautiful n so true, dvorahji...! tnx 4 sharing

Sun at 11:44am ·

Oh no, life is by no means meaningless.

Sun at 2:15pm ·

Oh YES...life is sooooooooo AWESOMELY, AMAZINGLY, OUTRAGEOUSLY, SACREDLY, LOVINGLY TOTALLY MEANINGLESS AND THEN SOME!

if you still think they're some great purpose or meaning going on here then keep lookinggggggggggg until you hit an AWESOME SPACE WAll and dive in....

Sun at 5:07pm ·

Nirmal Vadgama

By saying life is "meaningless" do you mean it in a nihilistic or atheistic sense of the term? For instance, would you support the view of Richard Dawkins, who stated:

"In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, and other people are going to get lucky; and you won't find any rhyme or reason to it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at the bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good. Nothing but blind pitiless indifference. DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is, and we dance to its music."

As a believer in God, isn't this contradictory? For, theists would see this life in terms of an envisaged goal and intention; a continious development of the heart's feelings toward joyous, ever-conscious experience and perpetual self-transendence.

I may have misunderstood what you mean by "meaningless", but life, surely, is bursting with meaning!

Sun at 5:54pm ·

You know....give the intellect a rest. Really. Just give the intellectual, spiritual, conceptual God hype that you've learned and accumulated a rest...and FALL INTO GOD WITH OPEN HAPPY ARMS and just listen and enjoy the music.

Life is NOT meaningless...IT's Awesomely, wondrously, incredibly, unfathomably MEANINGLESS...and that distinction is EVERYTHING....

Sun at 6:40pm ·

Mary Bellamy

So easy and natural, awesomely meaningless.

Sun at 8:16pm ·

A non-intellectual meaning; one that is perhaps more easily felt than understood...and incorporated on multiple levels ;O)

Sun at 10:48pm ·

Life is OPEN-ENDED- never understood, IT's LIVED...This incessant desire to understand life, to give it meaning, purpose, UNDERSTANDING is keeping seekers in their HEAD, ignorant & Unhappy. Faith based in fear.

All these IDEAS about God, what "he" means, wants and does - keeps seekers twisted with meaning. Life is AWESOMELY MEANINGLESS.. is a ode, a joyful celebration of the Awesome/MEANINGLESS UN-UNDERSTANDABLE magic of life. Life itself is the Miracle, the magic - NOT all these fantasies you have about manipulating the laws of nature to suit you, to heal you, to save you. it's so infantile, ridiculous; Spirituality for pre-schoolers.

Rejoice in the DIVINE MEANINGLESS-NESS OF IT ALL. The freedom of it All - when this BURDEN OF meaning is FINALLY REMOVED. Relax, Rejoice and enjoy the music. SADHANA without feverishness...Longing without worry, LOVE without end...

Sun at 11:11pm ·

BTW, longing for the Divine/God, desiring to "know" God/praying to know God is one thing and leads you to GRACE, your Nature...However, thinking you understand this creation and God and the ins & out of what "He" wants/does and having the answers is what shows your ignorance.

Yesterday at 12:54am ·

If you believe in reincarnation, and I do, then life is for learning.

Yesterday at 12:58am ·

If you want to learn...then you'll learn
HOWEVER, if you want to be FREE...then you'll stop learning and find out about BEING.

learning is for students NOT devotees...You want to be a student, looking forward to your next complicated/sufferring lifetime OR you want to be a devottee FOREVER IN LOVE/FREE in the DIVINE SPACE THAT YOU ARE? Think about it...

Yesterday at 1:34am ·

Charlotte Segercrantz

when the people find their way to Dvorahji, you can be sure, that they are going to be okay! ;-) ♥

Yesterday at 2:38am ·

Prerna Bakshi

I think we are someone else's purpose - God, Universe whatever you may choose to define it - till such time while we are alive, we can just sing and dance as you've rightly mentioned...

Yesterday at 3:08am ·

I’m not a novice at this game, my dear, and I certainly don’t look forward to another incarnation of suffering, but know it’s part of life - until I have LEARNED non attachment.
However I believe that state of grace comes only after myriads of lifetimes, so in the mean time, as I said, in my opinion life is for learning. A status that does not exclude joy, fun and what have you. And certainly dancing, because, as Isadora Duncan said – those who don’t dance will have to be shot.

Yesterday at 5:45am ·

Carolin Inkmann

@Charlotte: Thank you for having showed me the way to Dvorahji ♥ (You probably don't even know you did...)

Yesterday at 6:42am ·

Irene Harvey

thank you for bringing the joy. why would anyone fight that? go figure.
♥

Yesterday at 7:25am ·

The purpose of life is to find out that it is meaningless..

Yesterday at 8:26am ·

and never happened anyway.

Yesterday at 9:29am ·

Dvorah-ji is a honey-bee,
who points your head toward GURU-JI
You want to Be free?.................THEN...

Put Your head on the floor...See More

Yesterday at 10:18am ·

Jerry Harvey

it works!

Yesterday at 10:20am ·

My life is not meaningless. My children and granchildren are not meaningless. My work as an aromatherapist and writer is not meaningless.And freedom is just another word for noting left to lose.

Yesterday at 10:41am ·

Attachments are what you have to lose....me and mind die at death and it never happened anyway.

Yesterday at 10:45am ·

And I, on the other hand, believe that attachments, lived and experienced in spritual grace is what life is all about.
And I also believe that everyone if fully allowed their opinion - even though they may be attached to it.

Yesterday at 10:54am ·

Lindsay Young लिंडसे युवा

Believe what you want Hanja, of course that's your right..and you seem happy fulfilled & that's lovely...

Yesterday at 11:08am ·

Monday, January 25, 2010

Calling OUT Spriitual Teachers (especially Advaita & Ones charging big bucks) is FUN!

You know, I am FULLY AWARE that everything is possible in consciousness and the variety in life is infinite, from ants to spiriitual teachers (I call OUT all ants too)...and I really find it all to be Amazingly, astoundingly, lovingly Fantastically miraculous...Truly unbelievable how everything does it's BIT IN LIFE...I can barely speak after thinking about this even for an instant...

The fun in life is the Play, the positive and the negative...what fun is it (for me anyway) to constantly make you feel good and speak with golden tongue? Really really boring for me & for you...Why not give you a chance to feel Confused, indignant, upset, angry and see how much fun IT ALL IS without LOSING YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR?

TRAGEDY is heartbreaking and I cry like a baby with the rest of humanity (as a matter of fact I cry easily about everything beautiful or sad)...and I laugh just as easily about ANYTHING (and I mean anything!)

All knowledge is pretty much IGNORANCE. Nisagaddatta ( I do love him) said:

"As far as I am concerned, I have no faith in anything which has been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. ONLY MY OWN EXPERIENCE. You have had many visions, Is there any truth in the visions? What is the basis of these visions?"

Only your own experience is really worth anything...everything else is HERESAY, DISCUSSION, FOOD FOR a restless, inquiring, unsatisfied MIND. It's all part of that Mysterious ongoing mind that keep churning out ideas and the world as we know it.

I can only speak from my own experience and I do. And this is my truth.

1. Life is a continual happening.

2. The Divine runs the show ALWAYS.

3. IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT IT WOULD BE, so relax with your life exactly as it is.

4. Shut Up (fall silent/meditate) and be Happy!

5. Make fun of everything and EVERYBODY, because it's all a thought in consciousness -EVERYTHING.

6. NOTHING AND I MEAN NOTHING IS SERIOUS. You can always find a funny twist in everything, yes I mean everything; including sexual abuse, murder, Haiti, EVERYTHING.

7. AND OF COURSE THE BIG ONE by Beethoven:

"I console myself by the fact that God made me"

Every thought, every feeling, every action (gd bad & horrible) is God's Will.

So I relax in the TRUTH that God Made me. PERIOD. AND I AM HAPPY/AT PEACE. ALWAYS (even when I'm crying, screaming and cursing at the way life is presenting ITSELF)- Because I know it just couldn't have shown up any different then it did. Capish? Relax and be at Peace with your life exactly as it is.

AND, don't bother to defend your spiritual teachers, they usually don't care what anyone thinks of them beause they're too busy serving others or just plain happy! OR some are tooooo busy making money and saving the "I" and the world with their rhetoric.

I'm gonna give you a smack if you don't wake up soon! How many more advaita carrots are you going to buy into before you just relax into your Nature?

Repeat after me: I EXIST, I AM FREE and I'm not giving another penny to Katie, Gangaji, Mooji, Tony or Pamelai!! I'm going to buy myself a new car, a wardrobe and a house instead. Maybe I'll even get a new boob job or a hair transplant (for the guys).

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Vijay Deshpande

Oh!!! Reading your words, I feel so Liberated!!!!!

January 19 at 6:40pm ·

LOL. I ♥ this, immensely.

January 19 at 6:42pm ·

Margaret Guillory

LOVE IT!

January 19 at 7:37pm ·

Lindsay Young लिंडसे युवा

Just be yourself! That's all that's asked of you in this life. Don't try to be like anyone else, think like anyone else, feel like anyone else, have enlightened experiences like anyones else. JUST BE YOURSELF THROUGH & THROUGH. BE Natural. Relaxing about yourself and your life will guide you home...Being feverish and wanting to be like someone else will keep you in knots and unhappy.

Who cares if someone else experiences the Transcendence (whatever that means)? Who cares if someone else experiences dancing with Krishna or the dissolutions of the universe or no "I"?

You keep your eye on YOUR PRIZE because no body else's prize matters. We're happy for them but the only one that matters is our own experieces when it comes to Being knowledge.

And be patient. The rule of thumb goes like this. "What's yours will always be yours - what's NOT yours will never be yours!".

Ok? Now relax and be happy with your spiriitual programs, your progress and your life in general.

January 19 at 9:40pm ·

January 19 at 9:44pm ·

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE Dearest Mummy/Best Friend/Sister Dvorah Ji!!!! :) Jai GURUDEVVVVVVV :) :*

January 19 at 9:57pm ·

Cattis Bergqvist

so very refreshing ... ah :) thanks

January 20 at 1:41am ·

David Aldridge

Haha! - A friend of mine came along to the last Tony P meeting. Tony's wife Clare was collecting the entrance fee of £10. She looked at my friend and said "Hello, I don't recognise you". My friend replied "Oh, you should - I'm a regular - I come once every 10 years". Tony came up and said "That's a bargain - it's only £1 a year!". My friend replied "Yes - I've been saving up!" Much laughter ensued.. lots of love from David.

January 20 at 5:21am ·

Tony is actually hilarious...when I've listen to one of his tapes I'm GONE!...His knowledge is that strawberry effect. You can only experience him fully after you've had your own experience. Before then, It's a maze of words & confusion, but it is magical/enigmatic rhetoric.

The tape that I was listening to, he was calling out Gangaji, for charging so much money. Someone asked him about why he does what he does - and he said (I'm paraphrasing): "to support myself of course, but I'm cheap compared to Gangaji; she'll take your whole checkbook!"

You know interestingly enough...all these teachers really do it to share their knowledge, and Tony is relatively "free=er" in stance then others, cause he doesn't take enough to be "beholden" to a way of being and speaking.

But once you start TAKING THE BUCKS" there are certain expectations from your "students/devotees" that you have to live up to. And when you don't live up to those expectations, they throw you RIGHT OFF that pedestal they Put you ON!

Say something negative, have an affair, show your emotions (in a negative way) and they STOP WANTING TO PAY YOUR BILLS ANYMORE AND OFF THEY GO TO THE NEXT ENLIGHTENED smoke & mirror PONY SHOW.

From my perspective, set the record straight right away.
1. Tell them you don't know ANYTHING except what you've experienced & can offer for sure...
1. Don't take their money (except for expenses)
2. Do & say WHATEVER COMES NATURALLY AND BE FREE of opinions of your "enlightenment and all their fictitious theories..
3. Offer all that YOU ARE - and help others catch fire, marvel & laugh in freedom.
4. Be funny (sometimes in the strangest ways)

Some will call you crazy and some will just be entertained. EITHER way: "IDIDITMYWAY"!!!! (and that is definitely a song!)

PS. and what other way could you ever do it?

I do love you all, Dvorah (Dvorahji is a fabulous character I made up to give me that "guru" credibility!!!!

January 20 at 9:39am ·

There really are some wonderful teachers/Guru's around. We are very lucky nowadays. From my perspective, One will move you deeply...stay with that ONE and relax...

(from the shut Up book)
What if I told you the only lesson you
have to learn is to “Shut up and be happy?” That ...See More

January 20 at 7:39pm ·

Jerry Harvey

wish i knew you 40 years ago. it would have made the journey far less expensive and confusing

January 21 at 9:11am ·

Carol Skolnick

So is Sri Sri giving away the Art of Living now?

January 21 at 10:43am ·

it's funny you should mention the Artofliving...I'm not very much of an organization person, I never have been, I'm just too eccentric for them to put up with really, but I happen to look on the website yesterday to see Sri Sri's schedule because he's coming to LA to inaugurate a new center in central LA in April and I happened across what he's accomplished (THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION) and it's really impressive, & love stirring...

Someone's got to do the HEAVY LIFTING. SOMEONE'S got to get the money and man power together to SERVE OTHER'S less fortunate and you need buildings and volunteers and constant travel and hotels and food and advertisement to tell people you're here to help them and the list goes on and on and on...My friends (aol teachers) travel all over teaching trauma relief courses to Veterans thru the organization. And my kids (together with many others) went to New Orleans and worked with the children there through AOL (& someone had to pay for that).

I'm actually very proud of what Art of living does and that Sri Sri (despite the hype) has served so many in multitude of ways (physical, spiritual, trauma relief, & bucks). I don't want to do it. I don't want to go to Haiti,new orleans, Africa etc... I don't even want to give them money or my time...I'm not built that way...but I'll give someone a necklace I'm wearing because they want/need it in some way...Or I'll sit at my computer writing a note or make a video or write a book, when I'd rather be outside walking lilly by the ocean. So we all serve our loved ones (the world) in our own way.

Sri Sri for me has the flavor (the aroma) of all the other great Guru's. I love Ramana, Nisagaddatta, Vasistha, Astavakra, Shankara, and actually I only read their stuff not Sri Sri's - but when I'm deeply quiet/in-love, it's HIS aroma I get (I don't know why)....

Check out srisri.org or artofliving.org...they're worth a look/see...

January 21 at 11:23am ·

Manjula Kandula

I agree with D'ji, AOL is into good work. Perhaps as I notice, the org needs more transparency and accountabilty to show what they are doing and where exactly the money that is being donated, is going. I get receipts and follow-ups when I donate to other orgs, but AOl doesn't do this very well. Perhaps it needs to mature in this area. I have heardmany of my friends voice this very same opinion.

Plus the teachers need to update the videos on service being conducted at AOL- they show the same videos over and over and some of them don't even mention the link www.artofliving.org as a reference.

I'm now not much into AOL but just help out with causes that mean something to me (including some projects at AOL). I am too individualistic and some of the teachers branded me as being too in the mind. But I am sure Guruji understands me...

January 21 at 6:25pm ·

Being at peace and understanding yourself is good enough!!!

Fri at 9:42am ·

It is strange but all the gurus you mention are not like Sri Sri at all, perhaps Sankara may get closer with his wandering around India...

Fri at 2:28pm ·

It is strange isn't it? My gig was always meditation asanas, pranayama, bhakti, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the vedas....i start reading Nisagaddatta, Ramana, Ramesh...and all I can see is SriSri and he says to me one day while reading ashtavakra in a tape: "Dvorah, when will you get it?" and the whole world began to unravel and THERE WAS ONLY THIS!.

I can only tell you that LOVE/DIVINE are MY NATURE...everything else is a HAPPENING...and SriSri is my Guru, like Esther & Leo are my parents. IT IS AS IT IS.

Sri Sri is an enigma to me, I do not understand HIM at all and I don't try to, not possible. I only know that it's incredible to be blessed with good parents and it's a real blessing to have a Guru step into your life, want nothing and continually hold up a mirror so you can see your SELF clearly.

I am in adoration of my Guru, and I'm in adoration of everyone else's Guru too (regardless of talking trash about them!!!) I just love playing it's my nature.

Fri at 3:03pm ·

One if my early gurus was an ant...all is a guru.

Fri at 3:12pm ·