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Thoughts…

Sri Sri said: -” Wake up, realize this is all made of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought, your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this…& be free!”
Dvorahji says: BELIEVE HIM!!! Thoughts are just passing through…Relax in THIS/INFINITE SPACE – Let thoughts come & go…you remain free

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Chandelle Payen

Chandelle Payen 

my thought tonight is i desire snuggles lol
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David Gaspin

David Gaspin 

That is a Wonderful THOUGHT 🙂
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Patricia Pashia D'souza

Patricia Pashia D’souza 

De-light-full
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Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused

Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused 

btw – if the pink elephant comes back more often then you want it to…tell it to go away…and you go out and play! ok?
June 4 at 11:51am ·  · 
David Gaspin

David Gaspin 

Encompassing !!!!!!!!
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Chandelle Payen

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Jacqueline Lewis Seitzinger

Jacqueline Lewis Seitzinger 

if you let them go would that make you thoughtless,lol,,,,I do believe the mind is a powerful thing it can make or break you!!!! Think happy thoughts 😉
June 5 at 11:10am ·  ·  · Flag
Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused

Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused 

thoughts CAN’T make or break you if you see them for what they are…..TRULY JUST A THOUGHT, AN ILLUSION IN THE AIR, A PAST FRAGRANCE OF AN EXPERIENCE. As soon as you think it, it’s gone.
Your body is HERE
Your breath is HERE
Your thoughts are thinking about everything BUT THE HERE…they are passsssssssing through….See them for what they are and you are always cooooool!
June 5 at 12:25pm ·  · 
Jacqueline Lewis Seitzinger

Jacqueline Lewis Seitzinger 

well said!!!!! A past fragrance of an experience, very nice,,,,if I close my eyes and think about sad thoughts floating by and smile it feels like they just pass on they don’t stick and dwell,,,thanks for the tools I need them today to get through while I am closing a chapter in my life 😉
June 5 at 12:38pm ·  ·  · Flag
Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused

Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused 

Jacqueline, there’s a little twist here that you can get:

We are always trying to get rid of sad thoughts, unhappy thoughts, irritating thoughts, stressful thoughts, and we don’t WANT them to stick.

Just recognize that NOTHING STICKS. IT JUST DOESN’T, IT JUST COMES BACK AND FORTH AGAIN AND AGAIN. but nothing “sticks” to us. Healers talk about “thoughts” lodged in our cells and on and on – honestly it’s just Bull#$%!……Our bodies are a spacious floating environment and so is our mind. NOTHING STICKS, it all on the surface, right HERE!!!!! WE JUST THINK IT DOES. it’s just all changing, moving from moment to moment, thoughts to thoughts in an open ended Spacial environment.

So if a thought “sticks or not” comes back again and again…..we know it for what it is. Maybe we’re overshadowed for a moment and STILL WE KNOW IT FOR WHAT IT IS.

btw – People still like/get intrigued interested in their thoughts positive, negative or otherwise….I just watched a horror movie and occasionally the images come back, but to me I’m watching that movie again and it’s wierd and scary and interesting……..People actually like their thoughts regardless of their contents. IT GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT AND FEEL A CERTAIN WAY. But the SPACE THAT YOU ARE IS far bigger then the thoughts passing through.

June 5 at 2:20pm ·  · 
Jacqueline Lewis Seitzinger

Jacqueline Lewis Seitzinger 

Thank You 😉
June 5 at 2:23pm · 
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Ask Dvorahji: Why Am I not maintaining my connection to God?

SANDY:
When I turn to some of the teachings and books people recommend – it sometimes causes me more stress that I am not maintaining the correct mind set to be “truely connected”. Your messages help remind me that everything is ok and as it should be…..they help me find the peace of heart I am trying to remember. Luv, Sandy
DVORAHJI: 
You Know SANDY, “trying to stay connected to spirit” is one of the most ridiculous concept the New Age & Old Age have come up with. YOU ARE ALWAYS CONNECTED…that’s never the problem. Are you connected to your nose? Are connected to your breathing? So you are always connected to the Divine to spirit. 
What causes stress is “thinking, feeling” whether you’re connected or not. Your life will continue to change according to ITS OWN PLAN..LIFE JUST MOVES ALONG BAD & GOOD. You’re job is to recognize that you are always loved and that right now the weather is a little grey, cloudy….
Relax, keep moving along, I promise you it will change. Don’t bother to think about it so much…just do what’s in front of your face and keep moving along…
If you have a chance pick up the “Shut Up book” get it from the AOL bookstore and …go through my posts and relax with your life, knowing very CLEARLY, that if it could’ve been different, if it could have turned out different, It would have!!! Relax…you’re just fine.
Keep going to group Kriya and don’t isolate yourself…and you can write a letter to Guruji secretariat@artofliving.org
ok, love Dvorah

YOU ARE ALWAYS CONNECTED! IT’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO BE….
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Carolyn Hamdorff

Carolyn Hamdorff 

I like that!
June 6 at 1:53am ·  ·  · Flag
Carolyn Hamdorff

Carolyn Hamdorff 

And I think it is that wie forget, that we are always connected. Remembering and going into stillness for a moment helps to relax…and make you feel connected again. without concept. Love!
June 6 at 1:57am ·  ·  · Flag
David Gaspin

David Gaspin 

🙂
June 6 at 7:10am ·  ·  · Flag

Ask Dvorahji: A new perspective on JUDGING others!

“The moment you place judgement on another person, you are revealing to yourself the part of you that you are in judgement of.” ~ Amir Zoghi******

DVORAHJI: 
You know, we judge people all the time…and we think it’s so horrible! Well, let me be the first to say: IT’S NATURAL…And it’s not such a big deal. No matter how much you “don’t” want to judge – you JUST DO – AND THEN you end up hating yourself & others for judging. It’s so stupid really. LOVE IS YOUR NATURE and judging comes & goes (and let it be from your throat or brain and not from your heart!!!)
And if we wouldn’t take it all so SERIOUSLY we wouldn’t get so bent out of shape 
everytime we judge a 90 year old driving in front of us at 20mph in a 60 mph zone.
THIS POLITICALLY SPIRITUAL CORRECT NONSENSE GIVES ME HEARTBURN AND I THINK IT’S BECAUSE OF THE CHINESE FOOD I HAD FOR DINNER (OOPS! was I just judgemental? SH@@ – can’t say anything nowadays: Especially in a non-judgemental spiritual community – where people judge each other ALL THE F-ING TIME about who’s judgemental or not! 
Give yourself a break, and stop looking for reasons/quotes to JUDGE YOURSELF!

SPIRITUAL SEEKERS & devotees are always judging me! Do I really know WHO I AM?……..Well let me help you along….I don’t have a clue WHO I AM and if you think you know who you are – you are defnitely spiritually CRAZY!
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Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused

Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused 

@Vibha..of course the joke is, you’re judging them for judging themselves and that makes them “not as spiritual/or non judgemental as they should be”…..It’s all just a joke! People judge ALL THE TIME, CONSTLANTLY. So I say…OK – so judge and then letl it go into the ether/space where it cam from and keep moving a long, singing a song. We get stuck at every ridiculous concept that moves through our mind.

So WHAT, you judged someone or thing? SO What someone else is judgemental? SO F-ing WHAT! Unless it’s coming from their heart and they’re really BOZO’s & you need to correct them by calling them a Bozo -LET IT GO and don’t bother to judge others for being judgemental.

June 23 at 10:04am ·  · 
Niru Rajagopal

Niru Rajagopal 

Every time there is a thought, it’s a judgment one way or the other!!! ha ha!!! We’re NATURALLY judgmental!! 😉
June 23 at 10:34am ·  ·  1 person ·  · Flag
Mara Birkmaier

Mara Birkmaier 

I think we had it right as children….it takes one to know one. HA! If you didnt have some aspect of that thing you are judging it wouldn’t effect you.
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Giedre Skiedre

Giedre Skiedre 

was never too judgmental… born to be hippie and have so much love for everyone and everything the way they are…. But still sometimes something comes out like he/she shouldn’t or why he/she did like this or
not like that. The funny thing is, it takes just few days or sometimes hours and I find myself in the same situation and doing or planning to take same action as the person I was judging 🙂
June 24 at 12:18am ·  ·  · Flag
Maureen Yeomans

Maureen Yeomans 

Thanks for this, I’m going to copy the Amir Zhogi quote. In ‘Mind Clearing’ the question is ‘When did you do something similar?” and, after initial reluctance, there always was something similar.
June 24 at 12:42am ·  ·  · Flag

CHOICES…

People are afraid they’re going to screw up their life and make wrong choices. EVERY CHOICE you’ve ever made has been GOD’S Choice. Maybe it didn’t turn out the way you hoped-BUT IT WAS WHAT IT COULD ONLY BE! Relax with your choices . Continue making choices UNAFRAID deeply knowing that ANY choice you make, WILL BE THE RIGHT ONE! OK? Relax.

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Carolin Inkmann

Carolin Inkmann 

I love this one ♥
June 25 at 9:46am ·  ·  · Flag
Divya Khoj

Divya Khoj 

But if choices have to be made by god.. then is not making a choice also a choice god decided ??
June 26 at 9:10am ·  ·  · Flag
Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused

Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused 

To fully BE in that statement…you need to recognize the all encompassing vastNESS OF YOUR NATURE without ANY DOUBTS..NONE.
June 26 at 9:55am ·  · 
Divya Khoj

Divya Khoj 

Thats what Bhagwad Gita says… Whatever happens, happens for good..and on wishes of the almighty…
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Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused

Dvorahji Final Guide For The Spiritually Challenged & Confused 

Remember that “good” is A concept we’ve made up….actually, it happens the way it needs to happen…and that isn’t always “good” from our point of view. IT JUST IS.

And (from my perspective, contrary to New Age BS) the Universe is not benevolent, IT JUST IS and does what IT does. That’s actually a tough ‘concept’ to swallow – but the alternative is even worse because if you have a benevolent God, then you also have a treacherous God and WHO needs either.

FORTUNATELY you’ve got NEITHER, so you can relax. It is as it is.

June 28 at 11:15pm ·  ·
 

Awareness…

There is NOTHING terribly serious about Awareness-NOTHING! You don’t have to let go of anything. Relax with all these concepts-let AWARENESS NATURALLY become your NATURE.

April 17 at 10:07am ·  · 

Fox Ultrafeel

Fox Ultrafeel 

Damn, I thought awareness is by far the most important and hence serious thing there is! Even more important than lovesex! 😉
April 17 at 10:52am ·  · 
Roopa Kakar

Roopa Kakar 

U’r back. Howz ur rendez-vous with Sri Sri?
April 17 at 12:00pm ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

Fun! The Guru is your Nature…and still it’s fun to play…
April 17 at 12:23pm ·  · 
Vibha Sharma

Vibha Sharma 

Oh..I see!
April 17 at 5:03pm ·  · 
Ajay Verma Aol

Ajay Verma Aol 

Quite natural !
April 17 at 8:57pm ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

I think what people don’t realize, is how wonderful it is to have a “LIVE” IN THE BODY somebody that you adore and trust and that even tho it all comes & goes from the same place…that place has the flavor of this “someone” that imbibes all the Masters that you adore, living and gone…There is something wonderful about “that body”…like a beautiful elegant natural Rose, that you know fades but the fragrance somehow remains and embodies the Space of all time…
April 18 at 2:18pm ·  · 
Ann Cardon

Ann Cardon 

Wonderful Dvorahji!
April 18 at 5:02pm ·  · 

SOMEONE to Save you?

“Relax and be with your life AS IT IS! – STOP this incessant searching and crying for some fool to save you…You are saved! Shut Up! (fall silent) and BE Happy!…and if you can’t be happy, then complain about not being happy, and if you can’t complain, go have a cookie…just move along without analyzing everything you think, say or do…just move along from one moment to the next…

May 1 at 10:02am ·  · 

Betsy Herman

Betsy Herman 

I just had a cookie about an hour and a half ago… vegan, with pecans and chocolate chips… and then a slice of pizza with artichoke hearts and feta on it…. thank you!
May 1 at 10:31am ·  · 
Nancey Gagos

Nancey Gagos 

You said it Sister! Right on time too! I’m so loving loving you!
May 1 at 10:53am ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

Some people often think of food as their last “challenge” that they have to conquer before they’re finally in control. Let me be the first to SMASH that delusional concept. When food goes, YOU GO…From my experience it’s one of the last desires that LEAVES YOU before you check out………….and still with your dying breath you may still ask for a hot fudge sundae.

This fight that people have with food is heartbreaking to watch, because it so seems that we should be able to control it and yet………we just can’t. All you have to do is check out Oprah with all her money and all her trainers and al her everything and she still can’t control what she puts in her mouth.

Food is usually associated with life. You eat, you live. If you associate it with control then you get all the weird symptoms of food control, anorexia, bulimia etc.

Fortunately I’ve always considered myself a dyslexic anorexic. In other words, I’m big & ZAFTIG and I look in the mirror and I see a perfectly shaped model. GUESS I’M ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES & my dyslexia has come in handy.

May 1 at 10:54am ·  · 
Monica Khanna

Monica Khanna 

like yesterday i was made to realize….EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING….stay with the happening what say u dvohraji….wud love to meet u next time u in India darling…
May 1 at 10:59am ·  · 
Mahima Gabriel

Mahima Gabriel 

As for food, I would have to say …. I do enjoy it, but it’s more I eat to live, not live to eat. Likely if I could take a pill that took care of my body’s needs ….. I would not eat much …. it would be way simpler:) I still would want an apple or a mango, or cookies with tea sometimes ….. and maybe a hot fudge sundae a couple times a year 🙂 Feel for myself and some other people …. well we all have different ‘challenges’ ….. I know quite a few women who can’t seem to let the ‘mother’ role go !! I feel I still (at times) want to know what I will do when I grow up !! What my purpose is and what PROJECT should I be working on !! I also would like a Mr. Saturday Night, and maybe he could come on Wednesdays, too ….. depending 🙂 Tonight is booked and I am grateful for that ….. and Wednesday was too 🙂 lol !! but, that was just THIS week ….. it is not consistent YET – But, what the hell is ….. it’s LIFE and nothing is consistent except ‘not knowing’ anything !!! ♥
May 1 at 11:19am ·  · 
Mary Bellamy

Mary Bellamy 

I`m off to get a cookie!
May 1 at 11:29am ·  · 
Dawn Conrad Poulos Meyer

Dawn Conrad Poulos Meyer 

This is from Dr. Hew Len of Ho’oponopono: ” Before I eat anything say in my mind:
‘I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU! If I am bringing anything into this situation that would cause me to feel ill/fat as I am eating you, it’s not you! It’s not even me! It’s something that triggers that I am willing to be responsible for!’ I LOVE YOU – then enjoy the meal because it’s now cleaned.”
May 1 at 12:51pm ·  · 
Marguerite Carstairs

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Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

Personally I get tired of all the TRICKS that give me permission to eat food, or cleanse my food. To me they are just more thoughts trying to fix it all. I don’t need to clean my food, fix my food, make it holy or worth eating it. I’m not trying to change it’s vibration so it makes me “feel responsible or thin or ill or fat. I’m tired of MANIPULATING my life PERIOD. Why? Because its just plain NONSENSE!

I don’t believe in positive thinking, or begging to make my life or anyone else’s better. Sometimes a natural prayer arises and I’m thankful for everything including the piece of chocolate cake that’s sitting in front of me or that great plate of vegetables.

A Simple THANK YOU is always enough. If YOU want to do more, great, what could it hurt. But all this talk/and begging and pleading and loving nonsense to make it all OK – IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST ILLUSION. BECAUSE no matter how many times you say “I LOvE YOU”, the fact that you’ll still get that sugar/diabetic attack after you eat that donut, or a rash after those strawberries – will assure you that you are full of “positive I love you” Shi@!@@@@!

May 1 at 1:46pm ·  · 
Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone 

I’m just plain sick of thinking there is something wrong with me. So over it.
May 1 at 2:52pm ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

The trick of course – is to get plain sick and tired of thinking” there is something wrong with everyone else toooo! Just don’t hang out with them!
May 1 at 2:54pm ·  · 
Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone 

Haha yes!! We are all perfect. Sometimes perfectly insane, and that is grace too.
May 1 at 2:58pm ·  · 
Caitlin Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone 

I’m physically fat and have tried all sorts of food phobias over the years, but lately I feel like a thin woman and I can’t be bothered.

I have a friend who was trying to ‘fix’ my thoughts the other day by doing some mirror work, and while she was trying to get me to dig around in my sludge, I kept looking in this mirror and getting distracted by how pretty I am.

It’s an illusion, I’m sure of it.

It’s great. I feel free. Hand me a coke.

May 1 at 3:06pm ·  · 

ASK DVORAHJI: What can I do to BE AT Peace?

“If you want to have any peace at ALL,Really. The ONLY CHOICE you have regarding your past present & future is to say: IF IT COULD BE DIFFERENT-IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT! Everything else will leave you guessing as to what might have been, should be, and could be. Relax with all UR concerns and simple repeat this simple mantra when you’re in conflict about what you’ve said or done or happened. Relax with a new moment”–Dali Mama
BIRJOO:
Seeing the future as being choiceless makes the lazy mind happy, and slip into the couch and doze off instead off get going…seeing the past and present as if it could be different it would be brings freedom to drive to a different place starting now…the future is full of possibilities, adventures which can be looked upon as problems or viceversa…. isnt it?
DVORAHJI:
Great question!! AND………Well……….
NO! Not from my perspective. The future may be open to all possibilities, but if you expect it to be OPEN “Your Way, the way you’d like that possibility to go” Then it’s going to leave you in MISERY. It is OPEN…but it’s open IT’S WAY. That’s why, from my perspective the statement “if it could be different-It would be different” as it relates to the future……INSURES ALL POSSIBILITIES GOING IT’S WAY and takes you out of the picture, so you don’t have to worry about the future, AS THE future takes cares of ITSELF. 
It’s a mistake of the intellect to think “ONE has a lazy mind”. Actually it’s IMPOSSIBLE to have a lazy mind. Because the mind ALWAYS DOES IT’S JOG, doesn’t it? IT THINKS! And sometimes those thoughts bring action and exciting revelations, and sometimes those thoughts just pass right through and bring nothing but more thoughts. BUT this lazy mind thing, is JUST ANOTHER MIND THING.
SOMETIMES YOU”RE DYNAMIC AND SOMETIMES YOU’RE NOT and it only APPEARS as if you’re lazy but actually YOU ARE DOING THE BEST YOU CAN AT ALL TIMES & SO IS “YOUR MIND”. Anyway that’s my opinion and it’s as good as yours, but mine makes more sense, isn’t it? hahahahahhahahahahahahhah HMITBOTFL (HUGE MASSIVE IN THE BELLY ON THE FLOOR LAUGHTER!)
BIRJOO:
Just like duty free goods now i can enjoy guilt free laziness…lol
DVORAHJI:
My bumper sticker says: The lazier the better! Our problem is we just can’t let go of this “I am the doer bit”….especially in American where “I will, I can, I must” (and I’m going to do it MYSELF) exists so strongly. The question comes up: “how is it possible that I’m NOT the doer? Impossible”.
Even long time seekers are still going for the “law of attraction” professing: “Well if I can’t do it, there must be something wrong with my desiring, let me desire even stronger!”
Now everything is possible in consciousness, and desires are fulfilled and many times that fulfillment can coincide with the desire for that fulfillment…BUT THAT STILL DOESN’T MEAN YOU DID IT! You, are like an ant with an intellect. You do what you do, and NOW you can “THINK:” ABOUT IT every which way and then bother yourself about EVERYTHING, thinking all the time it’s YOUR FAULT, YOU DID IT! 
WELL in the world of appearance you did do it!! and SO WHAT? SO YOU DID IT, SO YOU MADE A MISTAKE. SO YOU LOST YOUR HOUSE, cause you couldn’t get a job. So you lost your husband, cause you nagged. So your daughter’s on drugs, cause you “think” you didn’t pay enough attention. So your Guru doesn’t call your name or pay attention to you, because you “think” you’re too stupid and have too many negative thoughts!” SO FRICKIN WHAT?
IT HAPPENED, AND YOU can’t do anything about it except what you can at this moment and if you “could have done it differently you would have done it differently and you JUST DIDN’T!!!!. WHY? BECAUSE!!!!!! (UNDERLINED!) 
NOW go through your traumas, go through the gyrations, bang your head against a wall and when IT’S OVER….SAY WITH FULL CONVICTION: “if it could have been different it would have been different!!! THEN move on to what YOU need to do next and WHALLLLLAH…YOU’RE IN PEACE AGAIN moving through the LiLa again and again…waving, and screaming and blissing at the next adventures that you THINK IS screwing you over……..
And Darling BIRJOO……..It’s a Crazy Magic show…..really crazy and really AWESOME MAGIC SHOW…now you see it, and now you don’t! 
What’s unfortunate is that we have to suffer…I hate that part and I don’t care how we rationalize it! (like if there’s no suffering, there’s no joy) and beebleblahblahblahahahahah
ah……and yea you can observe & dig the misery, BUT WHO WANTS TO! But what choice do you have?????? Just move along and sing a song (miserable or otherwise) and blame it ALL on the: AAAAAAAAAA Applejuice your guru gave you!

Wanna be at peace? Get a dog then a Guru…in that order! or NOT!
Written about 2 months ago ·  · 

Pramod Narain

Pramod Narain 

the doing robs peace!!
April 25 at 7:22pm ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

Doing itself doesNOT rob peace…Taking the blame and credit of “my doing” robs peace. If people could “Do” and live with the consequences of doing without second guessing themselves all the time…they wouldn’t get so tweaked in their life…they’d relax more and move along…
April 25 at 8:08pm ·  · 
Meena Waghray

Meena Waghray 

sometimes knowledge becomes like a lot of words to appreciate..nothing sinks in…
April 25 at 8:32pm ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

the Nature of knowledge is “to be appreciated -it never sinks in until it compeltely dissappears and takes you to silence…Appreciate it without expectation of “sinking in”….
April 25 at 8:42pm ·  · 
Pramod Narain

Pramod Narain 

just wonder and say–look nothing sinks in this body made up of 70% water!!
April 25 at 9:00pm ·  · 

I DON'T KNOW…

 Sri Sri: “Whenever someone matures they realize they know very little. Its like from an ignorant ‘I don’t know’ to an enlightened ‘I don’t know’!”—- Dali Mama: It’s amazingly freeing to realize ONCE & FOR ALL THAT YOU REALLY JUST DON’T KNOW. For some reason it leaves you in Spacious PEACE. Make an alter to OPEN SPACE

April 29 at 1:30am ·  · 

Charlotte Segercrantz

Charlotte Segercrantz 

very true, so much freedom in not knowing ♥
April 29 at 3:27am ·  · 
Mary Bellamy

Mary Bellamy 

Yes, it does!
April 29 at 5:28am ·  · 
Dawn R Oughton

Dawn R Oughton 

Makes me wanna breathe deep and loving every moment of it.
April 29 at 5:42am ·  · 
JoDalene Logan

April 29 at 8:13am ·  · 
Anand Deoskar

Anand Deoskar 

If you don’t know that you don’t know, you don’t even know that you don’t know.
April 30 at 12:29pm ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

and that’s the GOOD NEWS!
April 30 at 12:34pm ·  · 

ASK DVORAHJI: What does "so called" ENLIGHTENMENT LOOK LIKE, I mean physically?

Dear Dvorahji: Does enlightenment look a certain way? Will I see things a certain way, or perceive the outside world in a certain way? Will I live with NO ME, see through a fish eye like UG, or have experiences like Byron, or some of these other Guru Teachers, like Da, or Osho, or Adi, or Gangaji, or Francis, or Sri Sri, or the Advaita guys or even you. What does Enlightenment see? What does Enlightenment physically look like?
Darling: 
Where most seekers bite the dust and I have for years – Is they have expected these experiences of NO ME to be apparent at all times (in our physical perception at all times) like a physical continued expression/or experience. As if the PHYSICAL eye/seeing perception would change.
Now in some cases that may be so, because ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IN CONSCIOUSNESS. Some Teachers, Gurus have certain powers, Siddhis i.e. they can disappear, or duplicate themselves or naturally know what you’re thinking. But these are natural occurrences and its’ their gig. That still doesn’t mean they perceive “see” the world differently with an altered perceptive apparatus.
However, all the written material on “enlightenment” or liberation from Ramana to Gangaji to Tony to Maharaji to Mother Mary and all the rest….points to an ABSOLUTE EXPERIENCE AT ALL TIMES OF “NO ME” or some sort of “OTHER” then normal seeing, hearing, thinking and feeling. And that has caused MASSIVE CONFUSION even in the seeker who IS naturally happy, enlightened & RELAXED IN LIFE. For some inane reason some seekers (who have been in this enlightenment game for a while) CONTINUE this search, this seeking for “NO ME” . 
So I’m here to unreservedly say SHUT UP AND RELAX…with all these concepts you have about “what enlightenment looks like!!!” MANY OF YOU are already happy and intuitively already exist/are absolutely AWARE COMPLETELY/WITHOUT A DOUBT – that life is a living dream and that EVERYTHING, AND I MEAN EVERYTHING, from your latest subtle experience of “NO ME” – to getting mad at your husband, to seeing your Guru, to eating potato chips is a ever-changing Happening that comes & goes. IT IS A HAPPENING and YOU are part of that HAPPENING.
When Dvorahji, looks out her window she sees the Sun. And when Dvorahji looks at her dog, she sees a dog and when Dvorahji has a choice between a milkshake & a turkey, guess which one she’ll choose???? Enlightenment doesn’t look like anything? Freedom COMES IN DIFFERENT FORMS…but it sees everything the way YOU DO…OR NOT (because anything is possible) 
It’s a Play, a Lila, a MOVIE, a HAPPENING…AND You and everything You think, feel, say, do, Is part of that play. BEING AWARE that it’s a play and intuitively/realizing that it’s a play, and having some experiences that demonstrate to you that it’s a play….Is enough to SHUT UP AND BE HAPPY and stop this miserable searching and confusion and let Life present you with what ever it wants to. YOU ARE ALWAYS HOME. YOU ARE ALWAYS ALREADY ENLIGHTENED. YOU ARE ALWAYS PEACE. 
I love you, relax…..love Dvorahji
PS. The really cool experiences, the ones the so-called “enlightlened” ones are always talking about come & go like everything else (just like they do in you).
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Dvorahji comment:
I love the name Shut Up Guru – Why? Because it’s enough with all this serious Guru BULL#@#@. The Guru is YOUR NATURE. PERIOD. NOTHING other then YOURSELF. PERIOD. This seriousness, phony humbleness, idol worshiping this constant separation is uncalled for.
Seekers fool themselves & teachers fool themselves thinking they are higher, know more, are more intelligent, understand the in & outs of enlightenment, are more evolved then their students. And that includes the students of the Dai lama, Ramana and the hundreds of revered Gurus & Teachers, students are constantly bowing down to.
Now Look, I have a Guru, I honor my Guru, I’m grateful I have a Guru, and I love so many teachers & Guru’s but I don’t want to BE LIKE MY GURU. I don’t want to look like him, talk like, him or be revered like him. I’m a Dvorahji. And that’s good enough for me. Like Being an Alexji, or Manjulaji, or Gayleji, Lakshmiji is good enough for you. I just happen to be a writer a teacher…Others are blackjack dealers, bus drivers.
From now on, you can call me the Shut Up Guru, and my favorite phrase in the whole dictionary is Shut Up and Be Happy! And don’t put me on any pedestal cause you are going to be sorely disappointed. Just be NATURAL, fully at ease with yourself and all the stupid/holy ridiculous things you say and do. 
Be Happy with your life exactly as it shows UP. If It Could Be Different – It would BE!

sometimes enlightened people see me as a giraffe with sun glasses..
Updated about 2 months ago ·  · 

Tanbir Kabarwal

Tanbir Kabarwal 

first look at topic and photo !!! …and LOL at the photo of you, enlightened 🙂
you are absolutely adorable and soooo dear to my heart.
May 7 at 11:06am ·  · 
Tanbir Kabarwal

Tanbir Kabarwal 

cant stop laughing!!! “what enlightenment looks like!!!” ..
but the words were really enlightening too.

I remember the first time i met Sri Sri, i realized i had a concept that if someone was so cool, he would be glowing like a 1000 watt bulb, but Sri Sri was so normal looking. I broke my own concept of what a enlightened person should look like… that day.

May 7 at 11:13am ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

Thanks Baby…that certainly made my day!
May 7 at 11:54am ·  · 
Mary Bellamy

Mary Bellamy 

Now, you definitely look enlightened! It`s a good look, and worthy of a new song! LOL
May 7 at 12:57pm ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

You know Mary, maybe it’s my age, but I feel like fading more and more into the background…the only thing I might do is some children’s music…I still have no desire to finish the second book & I’ve tried lots of gimmicks to do it, it’s just sittin’ there…I’m going out to volunteer…now that’s sounds fun!
May 7 at 1:06pm ·  · 
Betsy Herman

Betsy Herman 

I have a writing coach/editing/tutoring business. If you ever want help with the book or any other writing project, you can find me at writer8services.wordpress.com or at the Vital Writer Services page on FB.
I’d be happy to ghost write or whatever for you since I love you and I really need the work!
May 7 at 2:55pm ·  · 
Mary Bellamy

Mary Bellamy 

I thought it was just me—–I hide out here in Never Never Land with the chickens. I`m getting over feeling guilty for enjoying it.
Let me know if volunteering kicks you into gear.


Much love to you

May 7 at 3:10pm ·  · 
Anna Novikov

Anna Novikov 

Dvorahji — much love to you!
May 7 at 3:13pm ·  · 
Dvorahji Dvorah Adler

Dvorahji Dvorah Adler 

I’m volunteering for fun, there’s nothing like SEEING someone laugh at one of your jokes, or being cheered up because you’re wearing a colorful outfit – and there is nothing more delicious then hanging out in the garden and having lunch for 3 hours. Quite fabulous! Guilt is sooooooooo past tense…

Betsy…I don’t pay, but I’ll certainly send people if it comes across my desk….

May 7 at 4:26pm ·  · 
Renie Praver

Renie Praver 

love your last comment!!!!
May 7 at 4:38pm ·  · 
Balasubramanian Prasanna

Balasubramanian Prasanna 

i feel like my head is spinning, reading the article. Its great. Its amazing. but I feel like am standing on top of a 50,000 feet skyscraper and looking down at everything, feeling dizzy. You’re mad Dvorahji. 😀
May 7 at 7:29pm ·  · 
Fox Ultrafeel

Fox Ultrafeel 

Dvorahji, I guess you’d take the turkey… 🙂
May 8 at 4:55am ·  · 
Betsy Herman

Betsy Herman 

thanks very much !!!!
May 8 at 7:02am ·  · 
Betsy Herman

Betsy Herman 

Love the giraffe piece!!! Why not a milkshake, Fox?
May 8 at 7:12am ·  · 
Sharda Singh

Sharda Singh 

Love you…I can actually hear my laugh…after a long long time
May 8 at 8:19am ·  · 
Mikey Roland

Mikey Roland 

yes,enlightenment looks just like a peaceful lake or a beautiful tree standing alone….
May 8 at 8:51am ·  · 
Kiki Kathryn Ciesielski

Kiki Kathryn Ciesielski 

yes, it looks like a baby giraffe
May 13 at 9:40am ·  · 

Space OUT!

 I’m actually hoping to drive my friends so CRAZY & SPACED OUT – that they don’t care anymore IF they’re enlightened or NOT! THEY’LL JUST BE IN A DAZE OF THEIR OWN REFLECTION! And be sure to wear all your rings, bracelets and carry a rose close to your face at ALL TIMES like a teddy bear so you feel secure with nature….

May 11 at 4:26pm ·  · 

Suresh Iyer

Suresh Iyer 

rotfl 🙂
May 11 at 5:15pm ·  · 
Sean Murnin

Sean Murnin 

jingle jingle jingle
May 11 at 5:47pm ·  · 
Mary Bellamy

Mary Bellamy 

Wonderful!
May 11 at 6:17pm ·  · 
Angela Brockman

Angela Brockman 

Like. Just like. Lol
May 11 at 6:30pm ·  · 
Ravi Pathak

Ravi Pathak 

Go Girl Go !!
May 11 at 8:41pm ·  · 
Lisa Longnecker

Lisa Longnecker 

I like jewelry and flowers…so that jives with me! 🙂
May 11 at 9:52pm ·  · 
Susan Barbara Dey

Susan Barbara Dey 

Dvoraji; you are truly a breath of fresh air!! Hope I get to meet you some day!!
May 11 at 9:54pm ·  · 
Lisa Longnecker

Lisa Longnecker 

Oh, now I see the closeup of the photo and see what you were talking about! lol! 😉
May 11 at 9:56pm ·  · 
Anna Novikov

Anna Novikov 

Adorable!
May 11 at 11:53pm ·  · 
Kiki Kathryn Ciesielski

Kiki Kathryn Ciesielski 

Tjhanks for the expert advice and sage knowledge dali mama!
May 12 at 6:10am ·  · 
Betsy Herman

Betsy Herman 

can I carry a dianthus flower? How about a peony, a geranium or a begonia? Or impatiens blooms? or gardenias, dahlias, clematis, chrysanthemums, petunias, salvia? andonandon…. LOL
May 12 at 12:43pm ·  ·