ASK Dvorahji: OK! LET'S GET YOU ENLIGHTENED! OK?
Ok, Darlings, let's get to it! Let's get YOU Enlightened! You've been meditating and doing your program, doing good deeds, and eating your vegetables. You've given up meat, chicken and sex (in that order) and now you're thinking about going to an ashram, probably in India, or Germany or somewhere the Sattva is "high", and the teachers are disciplined and dedicated. You're going to evolve and finally be free of all your ignorance and unhappiness, and maybe this time it will
last - unlike all the other times when it turned into the same-old, same-old. That's why you saved all your money again, didn't pay your school loan, skipped Christmas with the family, chartered a plane to the Himalayas, because evolving, is more important to you than life itself.
Darlings, I'm here to save you A LOT OF MONEY, and and a lot of needless concern over your constant searching-itch that's led you to years of unfulfillment & useless tears. You plead with God, the Divine, Buddha, Jesus, the Guru, Mother Mary and your favorite lucky charm, to SAVE YOU from the torments of your own mind and fabricated stories of possibilities & spiritual success. So Let's DO IT already! Let's get YOU Enlightened, OK?
First let's start with one of the FIRST MISLEADING CONCEPTS you have about Enlightenment:
1. Enlightenment is a goal. I will only get there after I've climbed the mountain of samskara (world of misery, karma, Haagen Das, chocolate and videos). After I get really disciplined, the truth/the Self will be revealed to me.
FIRST OF ALL - enlightenment is not a goal, IT'S YOUR NATURE. You don't have to climb Mount Everest or get rid of your psychological traumas or clean your chakras. It is your Nature, everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING ELSE is a thought, a concept, an idea, something you read somewhere, something someone told you, something you believe. You can still be the "normal/bad" person you think you are and be "enlightened".
Enlightenment means finally recognizing your Nature, what you've always been RIGHT HERE in front of your nose. YOU ARE the silence and the thoughts and images that appear to "override" the silence that you long for. YOU ARE EVERYTHING.
Karma, Misery, the world of pleasure and pain are all ideas projected from the mind, which loves playing and seeing and sensing and feeling everything it can. It is not your Nature, yet you are THAT TOO. If you want to "get enlightened", RELAX with everything you're doing to get there and take a breather from all that feverish doing. Enjoy your programs & processes instead of technique-ing them into misery.
Your feverishness is not going to get you there any faster. Why? Because enlightenment is a "tweak" in perception. You suddenly get it, and even after you get it, you sometimes have to get it again and again and again. WHY? BECAUSE IT SO SIMPLE. You are enlightenment right NOW and you're still searching for it. Honestly, it's ridiculous how hard you work to get a little "enlightening" experience just to plummet into misery again. UP & down like a yo-yo, hoping the Divine will take mercy on you and cut the string.
THIS IS IT! Right here and right now. The chair you're sitting on, the dog you're petting, the letter you're writing, the music you're listening to, the socks you're wearing - everything that you're doing, looking at, thinking about is IT at this moment. If you sit down right now and close your eyes you will sense a quietude, a space inside you. There may be thoughts, but inbetween those thoughts, you'll notice some stillness - and that IS YOU. THAT'S WHO YOU ARE.
IN meditation or activity, when there are no thoughts and the silence is thick within, THERE YOU ARE. And when you get out of meditation and you start thinking again and the world comes in again (problems, duties, your mother) and the activity is appearing on the screen of your silence-KNOW THAT the silence HAS NOT GONE AWAY. IT IS STILL THERE. Silence and thoughts - all of it is YOU! A constant Happening on the screen of silence.
That Silence, that space, that emptiness (no thought, no feeling no nothing) is YOU. That is your Nature. That is your God, your Buddha, your Christ, your Guru. Right there, always right there. Do you Get IT? Or will you continue to look for it and refuse to believe the simplicity of it?
Why not take a chance and see where it leads you. Sit down, Be the Silence and watch the thoughts, your world, the universe come up again on the screen of Silence - all of that is YOU - YOU ARE EVERYTHING.
2. I have to meditate, eat well, be pure, before I get enlightened?
That is one of the greatest myth perpetrated on seekers. It is pure nonsense and nothing less. Meditation, and good food and pure living does allow for more silence in the body and mind-easing some of the continuous obsessive thoughts and habits that people have. However, it is not a pre-requisite for enlightenment. There are no pre-requisites for enlightenment, but for some reason, people do follow certain patterns that "seem" to move them in that direction, or at least they 'think" they do.
Listen to me - it's all thoughts, nothing but thoughts that make you feel bound. It's like that wave that you think is going to hit you when you're sitting on your sofa in Iowa - thousands of miles from an ocean. It's a "thought".
A bum, drinking beer for 10 years and living in a hell hole in East LA, can wake up one day and just plain "get it". And he may or may not stop drinking even after he gets it. Why? Because Enlightenment is his Nature as it is yours and IT"S in plain view to be found. It is in fact, AN OPEN SECRET, available to EVERYONE!
Lilly the Buddha is definitely ENLIGHTENED wouldn't you say????
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