What do you think about this way to get enlightened? (see details)?
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By Dvorahji Adler: http://www.dvorahji.com 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've sworn 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 concept 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.
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Answer:
Hello Unity! This is absolutely wonderful! I approach it in this way too. It's just living life, letting divine intuition guide and peel away the layers and then you are EVERYTHING. Thank you for this, it's beautiful and so are you! Namaste
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I "absoulutely" Love it!! Unity this resonated with me so profoundly, and I still find my ego wanting to complicate it, Like... "It's thursday night, feb. 5, 2009, at 10:45 pm, it's not possible that you have found peace right now, there has to be more struggle involved, there's no way that you have found "IT"!" Silly ego... This might not do it for someone else, but it brings a sense of Peace to me...and guess what, this time Im taking it...It's mine and I want it...once and for all!!" Thanks Unity, I know you have essentially been saying this for the longest...why I hear it now?...who knows, and who cares...enough already with "Peace!'s" story! Much Love, Peace!
Peace! Lotus Flower
This is just what I needed to hear! Million thanks for posting this at a most opportune time!!! I have been in such a twirl for quite some time now...and asking all & sundry to show me the path! Most said you would find it on your own...just go on walking! I stood still...not knowing which direction to take...with tears in my eyes and darkness all around...with people coming and going, unmindful... I don't say I have FOUND what I was looking for...but with these words, I have noticed a distant light beckoning, waiting to be explored... I also like the way the thoughts are presented...no suger-coated words, just the kind of abruptness needed to jolt a person out of stupor! Worth exploring!!!
P'quaint!
Absolutely on the spot, I 'agree' with it entirely. Experience of that silence is the embodiment of 'enlightenment'. Be it. Live it. Can not be otherwise once we 'taste' it!
Thimmappa M.S.
We are all Buddha, enlightenment flowers, to give up anything is to give up enlightenment. What most people consider Maya is to the enlightened enlightenment itself rising out of the void. As long as there is Buddha there will be enlightenment it's Buddhas nature.
Dances with Kali
Whats enlightment?
jonathan
Enlightenment happens in an individual way to each individual (if at all.) So how could you tell somebody else how to do it? I think part of enlightenment is figuring out how to do it yourself.
SlowClap
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Mysterious Panda
The shortened version goes something like this: God decided to put the soul of Man into a body, because He knew it'd be the last place he'd look for it.
Totem
Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails, put it like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G8WEVTcFM0 "There is no you, there is only me..." ;-)
cumpassionate chameleon
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