Deepak Chopra makes a special appearance in the movie The Love Guru (June release) starring Mike Myers as Guru Pitka. Ben Kinsley is Guru Tugginmypudha. Wonder if Gotham Chopra as Deepak Chopra's son has a role.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0811138/

Touche!

Hahaha. You get it...

"Living on the inside of the New Age world as I have done has given me a front row seat to what truly makes a profit. I mean prophet."

Your understanding of matters New Age is profound and deepa.

"...an elaborate amalgamation of meaningless metaphors that can be encapsulated in numerical collections..."

and part beat-poet DNA to boot!

"If you meet the Buddha on the road...."

Ed is laughing, too.

Life is kind and discerning... I just wrote a post full of confessions and pushed "post"... but registration time had expired and the post is goone. Thank God...

#4 Ed is still laughing, Aurora!

God does make provision, or at least He has for me. He led me to the 'back' button on my PC and retrieved my post. Irv showed me how to copy and paste. I logged in again and, hey presto!

Resurrection is actually a feature of this Universe, did we but know ;)

Oh but Ed, I did push the back button (haven't stopped laughing at the "back" in the racoon- guinea- pig land)... but God is merciful. The down side is that I'll never get my questions answered...

#6 You'll do, Aurora......sign here:- ......

Just be a bit more careful with those questions, in 'future,' lol
X

I've read enough Goethe to not sign anything... you'll have to take my word :P

Dear Gotham,
Without your father you would not have met Guru Pitka. Your father is the real Guru in your life.

Jesus said a prohet is without honer in his own country; is it not that we can't see the greatness of some right in front of us because we are blinded by an identity we have given them?

The wisdom you have is because of EVERYTHING you ever experienced and EVERYTHING that has lead you to receiving it.

I was brought up neither spiritual nor religious, yet my upbringing was exactly what needed to happen in order for me to be who I am today. It was perfect...for my spiritual growth. In that sense my Parents were/are my Guru's, even if they only opened a door for me to look beyond them.

Give me this mass-opium of God spirit
A need for the road
As I am going to the front

Some people asking, yelling
"Why are we out of stock?"
I always pay my bills

So, as a testified-good man, a friend to illusions
The army of many exaggerations
Is coming next to you and now is facing you
With a scary-sword (like always)
"We are bored of you, We are letting you go"

So, you tried to smoke some long holy-words
Ingredients of you best recipe
But a problem arise
The matches are out of stock too

Yourself, next to the tree
Brown, green, blue and the twilight-sun
And a little wind-movement on the grass...

Quote "rival of the man I call my father, Deepak Chopra."

Perhaps... just perhaps... you and your father are one in the same.

That was great Mariska & Gotham! ... a little dry water never wets land :?)

GOD IS A JOKE,

You are right there, God really is the most Hilarious joke ever!

God will make you laugh yourself out of eternity!

Untill he asks the question.......

The Guru does not have the answer.

Love

Simon xx

Yo Simon, we won the war!

ed,

In any Conflict there is only loss and cost of loss.

I remember once speaking to a very old gent when I was eighteen in a pub here in Gods Country and I had heard from people there that he had fought in WWII and was actually in Normandy for the DD landings. I asked him what it was like to have experienced the War and to have fought on the front lines.

He lit one of his two pipes and just said he cared not to speak about.

I could tell by the look on his face that he would sooner forget the things he had seen in the war and so I bought him a pint and dropped the subject.

I doubt very much that he felt that we won the war and he was one of the men fighting it.

Simon

Yes, Simon, I knew a guy, too, went through both landings, suffered recurrent nightmares right up to when he died last year aged 94. He did share some horrific stories.
I asked him how he managed to survive right through it all and he said, 'well, first time into the landings, I survived because I could run, and fast.' The rest of the war he lived on his native wits and the three Bs. When I asked what they were, he looked me straight in the eye and said, 'Bullshit baffles brains!'
He was under a perpetual state of siege up to his passing, but no one ever got the better of him. I'd say he was Gru Upsome 'cos he could still laugh.

Basically agreeing with Simon, whose comments struck a right cord when the joking is out of tune.

God is a joke as long as the word remains an abstract concept. It takes a lifetime before that concept becomes a reality. Indeed many life times.

The funny part, when the concept becomes a reality, the only one left laughing is the one whose extistence is the base of one's sense of humor.

Until than its best to laugh at the mundane sphere of one's life, reserving a more reflective attitude towards the concept. For despite all those would-be-buddha atittudes, the source of Energy is there to be experienced directly and in proportion to the intensity of one's seriousness. Because surrender is a serious business. I know that's the last thing we want to hear when we approach life from the perspective of the driver in his (comfy) seat.

(In India when one decides to become a Sadhu, he will be given food and shelter, but will never be accepted back into the community, no matter which cast he belonged to. It shows the national attitude which isn't a joke, but a collective responsibility towards the business of god-seeking )

The concept (all-is- One) is not that difficult to graps, yet differs greatly from the actual experience of oneness. One of the reasons, it doesn't happen on the level of intellect but involves the psycho-physiological transformation.

The beauty of creation is that God is there at all times available to those who cherish the idea, and when there is enough maturity the experience of Self is there to be savored, in ''ex-change'' for self-negation.

When this knowledge becomes a living truth one no longer sees the difference between the Buddhism and Islam (for example), for both approaches invite to embrace the Absolute as the only objective Reality. Again its not the concept that is no longer working, but as always our perception of it.

Real revolution in renewing the religious teachings is simply introducing that aspect which religion was based on in the first place. Transcendence.

And there is no need for the second coming or anything of the kind, the experience of those who ''found'' God within is sufficient to amalgamate all differences into coherent coexistence.


With Love

igor

I remember when I was living in Canada and following a strict spiritual path there; a deeply realised person said to myself and some others

"see the funny side to everything"

I instantly recognised what he meant/. From the seperate selfs point of view the world is deadly serious. From the enlightened view of totality the world with all of its play of events and peoples constructed views/behaviour is a comedy.

I will never forget when he said that.... because a young lady who was part of our group challanged him and said to him....

"What about Child Abuse? There is nothing funny about a child being abused!"

The realised master replied to her.

"It is not funny for the abused obviously; but what is laughable is that the Abuser would even attempt to commit such an act with the belief that he or she will get away with it. It is laughable to even assume for one second that inflicting any kind of pain on another is without Karmic toll on your own soul. We never get away with anything. We are constantly engineering our Karmic experiences with our day to day indulgence"

So there is actually a funny side to everything. Even dying has a funny side when understood from a certain perspective. When Nisargadatta Maharaj was asked about how he felt about himself dying from Cancer he thought that question was rather funny simply because he knows that he has never lived, been born nor can ever die. He is not fooled by the illusion of the material world but was always way out beyond it in a field of total recognition of the absolute truth, that is pure enlightenment.

Love

Simonxx

A man with two pipes is somehow funny to me, Simon.

LOL

You know....

I never thought to ask him why he had two pipes.. one was shorter than the other I recall.

hmmm?

The title of this contains the phrase, "God is a joke," but the poster doesn't mention in the body why he says so.

The fact is that God is not a joke. God is serious when He wants to be, and He also has a sense of humor; God has the best sense of humor, and actually, all humor emanates from God originally. The authenticGuru is also serious when he wants to be, and has a sense of humor, and it is his position to bring us closer to God, for our own benefit.

What is a joke is the counterfeit guru.

A counterfeit guru is someone who puts himself forth as a teacher in regards to God's qualities and activities, but lacks authentic knowledge of these things.

People laugh at guru Pitka because they recognize him as a counterfeit guru, who lacks the qualities of the authentic Guru, just as Austin Powers is funny because he lacks the qualities of an authentic spy.

Gotham Chopra's diatribe above isn't even funny. What is his point? Can anyone tell?

However, the only reason why there are so many counterfeit gurus around is because the authentic Guru is of such great authentic value, just as the only reason there is a such thing as counterfeit currency is because real currency has such a high value.

And, just as for every counterfeit bill there is much more real value in its corresponding authentic currency, for every counterfeit guru, there is much more real value in his corresponding authentic Guru.

No, God is not a joke, but the real jokes are those who think in that way, such as Gotham Chopra seems to do.