There are a trillions ways of saying "you are literally a temporal illusion, and some are more understandable to people than others - however THE POINT from my perspective, is to help people relax and be happy...and know that they will get it when they get it! Meanwhile "lifel is a Happening and if it Could be different, it would be! So RELAX with your life exactly as it is.
For Goodness sakes....You ROCK Dvorah! Now, having said that....HOW DO I BECOME ENLIGTHENED???? (just kidding)
In all seriousness though, would you agree that even though we are ALL already "This", that most of us have not REALIZED it, and this is why we continue to suffer? You mention on your homepage "One day (38-years-ago) I woke up and everything looked different...." I'm guessing that 39 years ago, that you were where most of us are now, unless you were not on the path then. No?
The true test of the power of this sharing is whether those who investigate in these ways rediscover the Freedom that they are. Only the end of suffering counts. If there is suffering the pointers can eliminate that -- here and now. This is all the really counts.
It is lovely that different people get it in different ways, with different techniques...and if something, some "Pointer" gets you to relax and be happy - then more power to whatever that "pointer is!"
the Advaita language pointer or not - is unfriendly to most people and hard to bend your head around..."WHO sees this?" "You don't exist" "there is nobody" - all theses "pointers" only confuse most people and make them more unhappy! There are very few that "get it" from that perspective. There is flip side of talking about this "you don't exist Pointing stuff... Better to point at your HEART and Sing - SHUT UP and BE HAPPY! YOU ARE EVERYTHING!
exactly...it is not a goal...it IS the journey, the day to day living.
SunshineBuddha 2 years ago
Try Children...that should finally finish you off!
dvorahji 2 years ago
dvorahji,
I have been enlightened twice, through two different disciplines. Painting and tennis.
Cheer up!!!
mindbodyhealer 2 years ago
Boy did you get that one incorrect..
We are nothing and if you think you are something you deceive yourself.
That is the essence of ego, thinking you are something when the truth is everywhere presently saying you are nothing, literally a temporal illusion.
early2it 3 years ago
"From "somebody to nobody to everybody"...Sr Sri
"Nothing being everything being nothing being everything..." Tony Parsons
dvorahji 3 years ago
There are a trillions ways of saying "you are literally a temporal illusion, and some are more understandable to people than others - however THE POINT from my perspective, is to help people relax and be happy...and know that they will get it when they get it! Meanwhile "lifel is a Happening and if it Could be different, it would be! So RELAX with your life exactly as it is.
dvorahji 3 years ago
For Goodness sakes....You ROCK Dvorah! Now, having said that....HOW DO I BECOME ENLIGTHENED???? (just kidding)
In all seriousness though, would you agree that even though we are ALL already "This", that most of us have not REALIZED it, and this is why we continue to suffer? You mention on your homepage "One day (38-years-ago) I woke up and everything looked different...." I'm guessing that 39 years ago, that you were where most of us are now, unless you were not on the path then. No?
Love U!
GodIsTheOnlyDoer 3 years ago
Ahhhhhhhh!! Thanks for posting!! :) Loved it!
~Donny
sparticle24 3 years ago
After all the struggling, at some point, we have to drop even the idea of enlightenment... and relax!
adeoskar 3 years ago
Thank you dvorahji!
WrenSimon 3 years ago
LOL
charlesdavidhayes 3 years ago
Be happy but dont be stupid
positiverevolution 3 years ago
The true test of the power of this sharing is whether those who investigate in these ways rediscover the Freedom that they are. Only the end of suffering counts. If there is suffering the pointers can eliminate that -- here and now. This is all the really counts.
charlesdavidhayes 3 years ago
It is lovely that different people get it in different ways, with different techniques...and if something, some "Pointer" gets you to relax and be happy - then more power to whatever that "pointer is!"
dvorahji 3 years ago
Be No Thing. THIS is Love, Loving ALL that appears, Love-Hate, War-Peace, ALL is allowed in The Infinite IS. Be as You are, my Love.
charlesdavidhayes 3 years ago
This is a pointer. NOT to be "understood". NOT to "deal with!" Look: WHO does not see this? Anyway, "I" Love "You".
charlesdavidhayes 3 years ago
the Advaita language pointer or not - is unfriendly to most people and hard to bend your head around..."WHO sees this?" "You don't exist" "there is nobody" - all theses "pointers" only confuse most people and make them more unhappy! There are very few that "get it" from that perspective. There is flip side of talking about this "you don't exist Pointing stuff... Better to point at your HEART and Sing - SHUT UP and BE HAPPY! YOU ARE EVERYTHING!
dvorahji 3 years ago
Enlightenment is like you achieve a degree in school. It's like graduating from being somebody to nobody and then nobody to everybody.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
raynanya 3 years ago
Enlightenment is your Very Nature! You are Everything!
dvorahji 3 years ago
NOBODY "gets enlightened". There is NO "enlightenment". "You" Do Not Exist!
charlesdavidhayes 3 years ago