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Action and Consciousness - Adi Da
Whatever you appear to do, your activity is always an extension of your apparent self (and, therefore, of your perception, conception, or interpretation of your apparent self, the world, and...

Addiction - Adi Da Samraj
Every ego "I" is an addict of self contraction. And egoity, or the addiction to self contraction, is not just one kind of self indulgence. Egoity, or self contraction, is the total pattern of one's life, and it inevitably produces suffering and bondage.

Adi Da Video on Google Videos - Beezone

Adi Da's Awakening - Chapter 16 - Knee of Listening
Some time in late August [1970], I happened to go to the bookstore at the Vedanta Society in Hollywood. I noticed there was a temple on the grounds, and I went in for a few moments of meditation. As soon as I sat down....

Adi Da's Guru? - Adi Da's regard for his lineage
My Great Regard for My Adept-Links to the Great Tradition of Mankind...

AdiDa.org - Invitation from Global Ashram Magazine

Adidam has a new dharma oriented website - Link

Advaita Vedanta Research Center - Link

Ajna Chakra - by Swami Nityabodhananda a disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Alan Watts - Original Forward to the Knee of Listening
"...to say what Franklin Jones is trying to say is like drawing an asymptotic curve a curve.."

Anger - From Adi Da in 1978
"If you fail to maintain your understanding...your right emotional response to the world... then you will not be able to grow...."

The Ashram Books - Opening of the first center in Los Angles, 1972
April 25, 1972, "Shree Hridayam Siddhashram"--the first public center of Adidam--was opened

Avon Lady - Method of the Siddhas, 1973
" You read all these books, and you do all this thinking...about getting (or being) there, and doing this and that to get (or be) there."

Awakening of the Psyche - Laughing Man 1984
Western Man, however, has lost his feeling connection to this "primitive, "or more primary, magical relationship to the world.

Become Responsible - Excepts from a talk about one's attention or the need for it
The purpose in considering your whole history is to see how that demand for attention is the expression of a pattern that already exists

Birthday Message from Jesus and Me - Adi Da Samraj - 1982
The essay also speaks of being born again in the Spirit, so it is in some sense a message about everybody's "rebirthday" or spiritual birth. And it is "from Jesus and Me" because the essay also paraphrases the Teaching of Jesus.

Beezone - What is it - Introduction

Bihar School of Yoga Magazine Archive's - The magazine of the Bihar School of Yoga = Great resource on Yoga

Birth Until Death

- the Culture of Ressurrection
The first three stages of life and right adapatation in the mature stages of life

Bliss Sheath - From Science of Soul
"We have already described the physical form and size of the heart in an earlier chapter. Here we have to show how the lord of the five sheaths, Jivatman, the individual soul, abides in the Bliss Sheath situated in the space of the heart, the reservoir of blood"

Bodhisattva - Trungpa and Adi Da's Comments
From Adi Da and Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche on the nature of the Bodhisattva

Bodhisvatta Vow - c. 800 C.E. - Kishitigarbha Vow Sutra

Body of the Guru - 1976 - Adi Da Samraj
"I am serving a process that will undo your identification with this body"

Breath and Name - The book

Bubba Free John retires - 1976 East West Jounral Article - American born guru retires
"Three days after the full moon in May, while I was visiting his ashram, then called "Persimmon," Bubba Free John returned unexpectedly from an extended trip to Hawaii."

Can the Guru Awaken?

- The Guru Principle Investigated by Beezone
There are teachers and there are Gurus. One question central to the spiritual aspirants sadhana or spiritual development is: Can the Guru enlighten?

Change - Adi Da Samraj
"The reason 'things' haven't changed yet, even though you've thought about your life for years, is that you haven't adapted differently."

Childish Spirituality - Adapted from Breath and Name
"Experiences," high and low are required by those who are still lingering in the conditions of their childhood and adolescence. Everything a child does is a manifestation of one underlying assumption: dependence.

Chocolate and Vanilla Wars - Bodily Location of Happiness - Teaching demonstration
On April 7, 1975, a "Declaration of a State of Contention" was prepared by the "Benign Divine Lightful Allied Democratic Sattvic Vanilla Forces" in order to "make the world safe for Vanilla," against the "Evil Lightless Fascist Communist Totalitarian Chocolate Forces." The Vanilla or Sattvic White Forces were led by Da Free John, Generalissimo and Plenipotentiary of the Divine Vanilla..

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The Chronicles of CTR is a growing online community with a common passion: the life and teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Chogyam Trungpa's Oxherding Pictures - Garuda (1971)
The Search for the Bull - The inspiration for this first step, which is searching for the bull, is feeling that things are not wholesome, something is lacking. That feeling of loss produces pain. You are looking for whatever it is that will make the situation right. You discover that ego's attempt to create an ideal environment is unsatisfactory.

Choosing the Outer or Inner Way - EWB
The world renouncing ascetic considers his born existence to he a problem. He feels himself always confronted by two great alternatives: Sex and God. He feels obliged so choose one or the other. He struggles to choose God But the God he chooses is only an aspects of his own experience

Communion, Dawn Horse and Vision Mound Magazines - 1974-1977
The Early Magazines of the Community of Devotee's of Bubba Free John

Complaints and Problems - The abuses and outrageous behaviors of the Guru
Lately I've been reading some of the bulletin boards and web pages on the Internet that discuss Adi Da

Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun - Epilogue
The sun, or fascinating light, the visible vibration that can absorb us, is the principal symbol of religion and all the ways of extraordinary knowledge

Cooperation and Doubt - Adi Da Samraj
Human freedom is not in principle about the ability to randomly fulfill random desires. The true principle of human freedom is a greater cultural concept of the status of mature human individuals

Cosmos - Bubba Free John teaching the Knee of Listening (early student course)
In very early days of the teaching Adi Da taught a 12 week course on the Knee of Listening, elaborating and going into more depth the ideas and teaching within his autobiography.

Crazy Wisdom - 1998 Comments by Adi Da on his Crazy Wise Method
"Especially in the last four or five years, My Struggle has progressed to the point of completeness. And so when people refer to My "Crazy Wise" Work, they must understand that it has essentially come to an end."

Creation Myths - Adi Da - 2000
"Popular traditional religion tends to be associated with "Creation" myths... stories...on the origins of the..world that (try) to account for the existence of the world"

Cultism - Adi Da
"The error of conventional cultism is precisely this childish, and (otherwise) adolescent, and (altogether) ego--based orientation to fascination with Spiritual Masters"

Da Avocado - March 1982
"One morning during "Darshan" (spiritual sighting of the Divine) at The Manner of Flowers an avocado fell.."

Dawn Horse Magazine - Early Magazine of Devotees

Dawn Horse Symbol - What is it's meaning

Dawn Horse Press - Adidam Press - Link

Devatma Shakt - Kundalini
Divine Power. by Swami Vishnu Tirtha Maharaj

Devotees of Adi Da Samraj invite you to subscribe to the Dawn Horse Express

The Most Difficult Stage -EWB
"The most difficult stage is the one of transition from Lawless, subhuman existence to the responsible beginning of spiritual life"

Dissolution of Vital Shock - July 1974
"real insight ....simply see... things...in which he comprehends (his)strategy. And ultimately as this one strategy, this contraction, the avoidance of relationship."

Do Not Reduce This Institution to a Religion Business - Adi Da

a talk by Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda - October 18, 1981

Double Bind - unpublished notes 1971 - Adi Da Samraj
"One who is beginning to understand first recognizes that he (she) is suffering, fundamentally unhappy, unsatisfied, and chronically in double-bind that cannot finally be consoled."

East West Jounral 1976 Article - American born guru retires
"Three days after the full moon in May, while I was visiting his ashram, then called "Persimmon," Bubba Free John returned unexpectedly from an extended trip to Hawaii."

Education in the Seven Stages of Life - Sunlight on the Water
"Each of the seven stages represents a unique period of adaptation and transcendence, and each subsequent stage is built upon fulfillment of the process of adaptation and transcendence in all previous stages. Therefore, we must clearly understand what special education or schooling must be engaged in each stage."

Ego Society and Peace - Adi Da's Appeal for World Peace
"Human beings in this “late-time” (or “dark” epoch) live in the “samsaric” (or un-Enlightened) world of egoic society—and this is why the signs of the times are so profoundly negative."

Embracing Reality - Brad Reynolds
Brad's book on Ken Wilber

Energy of Consciousness - June 1982 - Adi Da Samraj
"What is It? I am not asking for some abstract description, but you are supposed to be a spiritual practitioner, so you must be in touch with something substantial about which you may communicate very simply and straightforwardly."

Enlightenment of the Whole Body - 1978 Book

Esoteric Christinity

- by Norman D. Livergood - " About 25-30 C.E. a mystical teacher named Jesus began to tell people...."

Essential Matter - Questions
"I hate to tell you this, but when you really get down to the core of the Teaching you begin to realize that you are not going to be given any answers at all"

Exercise and Wisdom - an unpublished talk 10/78
"When we think of exercise we generally think that exercise is some sort of violent activity that steps up the heart rate, works the cardiovascular system..."

Experience - Adi Da Samraj
"If you see Me in some visionary sense, or I say something and you hear it without My being physically there, well that is interesting. Examine that phenomena and feel everything about it. On the other hand, do not identify the experience with Me."

The Evolution of Adi Da Samraj - Franklin Jones to Adi Da Samraj
"To understand the transformation and enlightenment of Adi Da Samraj it is important and necessary to understand...."

Fear - The Way That I Teach - Come to Me When You Are Already Happy
"Finding ourselves alive in an independent form, vulnerable and subject to death, we become frightened, afraid of extinction. This fearful mood motivates us in all that we hope, believe, and do."

Fear No More Zoo - Link - Stuart Camps, Director

Feel The Mystery - What to Remember to Be Happy
First: remember to feel the Mystery and even breathe it.

Fight - Leela
"The Spiritual Master had been invited to a closed circuit telecast of a world-championship heavyweight boxing match."

Finding a order order of men (and women) - Knee of Listening - chapter 20
"I am interested in finding men who are free of every kind of seeking, attendant only to understanding, who will devote themselves to the intentional creation of life in the form and logic of reality rather than the form and logic of Narcissus."

First Word (with and without parentheticals)
"Yes! There is no religion, no Way of God, no Way of Divine Realization, no Way ofEnlightenment, and no Way of Liberation that is Higher or Greater than Truth Itself."

Five Skandhas - Chogyam Trungpa
"To understand more precisely the process of confirming the solidity of I and other, that is, the development of ego, it is helpful to be familiar with the five skandhas, a set of Buddhist concepts which describe ego a five-step process."

Four Stages - EWB
"The first three stages of the Way of Divine Ignorance involve purification, regeneration, higher adaptation, and sacrifice of the whole and entire body-mind through transcendental Communion with the Living Divine. In the ultimate 'or perfect stage, which is named the Way of Radical Intuition..."

Freedom and Renounciation - EWB
"The world renouncing ascetic considers his born existence to he a problem. He feels himself always confronted by two great alternatives: Sex and God."

Freedom of Religion - An Essay by Avatar Adi Da Samraj
In scholarly and popular commentaries on religion, it seems that no religion is ever indicated to be among the so called "great" religions unless it has, by some historical means, acquired sufficient political power"

Future of My Work - Adi Da 1981
"My Work with individuals is in general finished, except where I may presume it. Thus, I may be recognized by devotees, but they must depend on the Agencies of the Teaching, including the Community, the Holy Places and so forth, rather than on me, to turn them to the Radiant Identity."

Gandhi - Seven Sins
1. Wealth without work....

Garbage and Goddess - The book

Gist of Hinduism - 1897 - Swami Vivehananda
"The Vedas do not owe their authority to anybody, they are themselves the authority, being eternal -- the knowledge of God"

God Don't Eat The People - Hurricane 1982
"Divine as Goddess, cloaked in the guise of Hurricane Iwa, struck, exposed her fangs, stuck out her tongue, snorted, screamed, hissed, and blew out the Sanctuary."

God is Not Elsewhere - 1980 - Adi Da Samraj
"If you would penetrate and see through the things that you put in front of yourself, through our own tendencies, you would see directly what is present, which pervades all space and every atom."

Godavari Mataji - Devotee (Ma) of Upasani Baba Maharaj
"In 1941 Sati Godavari Mataji assumed the mantle of her Guru Shri Upasani Baba Maharaj with the strength, simplicity and dignity of a realized being"

Google Videos - Adi Da Videos- Beezone

Grand Inquisitor - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"My story is laid in Spain, in Seville, in the most terrible time of the Inquisition, when fires were lighted every day to the glory of God, and 'in the splendid auto da fe the wicked heretics were burnt."

Great Activity of the Heart - unpublished
"In the Heart there is no adventure and no world, no one who thinks or acts, but there is..."

Great Path of Return vs. Radical Path of Understanding - Adi Da Samraj
There are three manifest dimensions: gross, subtle, and causal. And there are three traditional ways of practice toward release, each involved in manipulation and experiences in one of the three dimensions.

Great Power

- Adi Da Samraj
"The Great power is available to you. Whatever you show in the 7th stage of life is entirely your business. Don't draw on my energies for that purpose...."

Guru as Divine Form - 1973 Life of Understanding Series
"Guru as God is not the human individual, ego, magnifying itself dramatically to itself and thinking it is God exclusively over everyone else and having all kinds of qualities that it sort of owns. That sort of divinity confession of is insanity. You find all kinds of people in mental institutions who think in these terms."

Guru Principle (unpublished) - 1972 talk
"The lessons of the Guru do not necessarily illuminate. They have possibilities for those who are available, but there's not wholesale salvation."

Hardware, Software, and Transcendence - Adi Da Samraj 1982
"Underneath our ordinary suffering life and habits, the persona that we seem to be, is actually a very sophisticated machine."

Heart and The Presence - 1976
"I'm talking about the simplest gesture, the most natural consciousness in relationship. And it is a felt gesture. It is a feeling consciousness, not an abstracting one."

Heart Center - The Bliss Sheath
Science of Soul - A practical exposition of ancient method of visualisation of Soul (Atma Vijnana), Swami Vyas Dev Ji

Heart Felt Attention - May 30, 1976 Bubba Free John
"It is not a matter of centering. The mind could put its attention on the heart, but this practice is not a matter of attention on the heart, Heartfelt attention is........"

Heart is the Hole in the Donut - 76 Talk on the unconvention function of the Guru
"The Guru in human form doesn't have a conventional function. Conventionally people want to use the Guru as some sort of symbol, some sort of cultic figure"

Here Lies The Heart - by Mercedes D'Acosta
"At one of these dinners I met Paul Brunton who had written a book called A Search in Secret India. When I read this book it had a profound influence on me. In it I learned for the first time about Ramana Maharshi, a great Indian saint and sage."

High History of Buddhism - Rick Fields - Soma and Buddhism
"..As Hajicek-Dobberstein says, "Some contemporary non orthodox Buddhist 'alchemists' find precedents in Mahasiddhas Nagaijuna and Aryadeva, who agreed, We need to eat the alchemical medicine. . . Orthodox scholars may object but they can no longer 'Just say No."

How I Comprehend My Work - Breath and Name 1977
"The possibility of true spiritual life, or participation in the Graceful process of liberation in the prior Divine Reality, begins only when there is tacit conviction in the functions of life and intelligence of the inherent suffering of the conventional realization or destiny of manifest existence"

How the Guru Works - Entering the World of Dragons
"my whole life is a matter of developing the capability to instruct others and then entering into a unique kind of relationship with them in which to be instructive--a relationship of identification with them, not a relationship of abstraction from them. You could say it's a very dangerous, wild way of working."

I am always Present - Breath and Name 1977
"...the relationship between me and my devotees is not mediumistic but synchronistic."

I Call you to Go Beyond the "Oedipal" Sufferings of Childhood
"The first noticings of emotional-sexual polarization and sexual suggestion are in relationship to one's parents"

I Give it All Away - Adi Da

In one sense, my relationship to the institution is similar to Ramana Maharshi's relationship to the organization that developed around him

Identification of the Beloved - Paradox of Instruction 1976
"There is virtually no limit to the delusions that human beings can presume on the basis of their tendencies, their desiring, their motivation, their reactions to experience"

Idols - Compulsory Dancing
"No thought or figure or any perception arising in the mind is, in itself, God. No thing, no body, no moment or place, in itself, is God"

Innermost Essence - Maha ati - Trungpa
"The maha ati [Tib.: dzogchen], which is beyond conceptions and transcends both grasping and letting go, is the essence of transcendental insight. This is the unchanging state of non meditation in which there is awareness but no clinging. Understanding this, I pay ceaseless homage to the maha ati with great simplicity."

Integral Therapy - D. B. Sleeth
"Mindfulness and “Radical” Non-Dualism and Their Relevancy for Clinical Practice"

Internet Source of Sacred Texts - Link

Introduction to The Sacred History of Adi Da - A Course of Study for Maturing Third Stage Early-Life Devotees
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SACRED HISTORY OF ADI DA SAMRAJ'S DIVINE WORK

Jesus and Me - Adi Da's Free Rendering on the Book of Matthew
"Scientists without Life! Politicians without Love! Wise Men without a Master! All of you who "speak with authority" and plan our progress as if you invented our very existence!"

Karma - Reginal Ray - Shambhala Sun
"Buddhism highlights two types of karma."

Katha Upanishad - One of the older, mukhya "primary" Upanishads commented upon by Shankara.
"Knowing well that sacred fire which leads to heaven. I will explain it to you. Listen and learn from me."

Ken Wilber - Letters and links

Key to the Process - 1974
"What is this matter of transformation, of God-Realization, that we have considered for several years, with all its stages, with all its considerations? What is the essential process? What is the key to it altogether?"

Knee of Listening - The 1971 Book

Knot of Self-Contraction - 1996
"It's not merely a sensation you're experiencing. It is an act you are performing. You are doing the self-contraction. It is not merely happening to you."

Kundalini Shakti - The Basket Of Tolerance, Booklet Series
"There are actually two distinct (and very different) traditions associated with the cosmically manifested Kundalini Shakti."

Lankavatara Sutra - a principle text of Mahayana Buddhism
The Doctrine of Mind-Only - The Conception of No-Birth - The Triple body of the Buddha -The Tathagata

Law of Sacrifice - Three Essays by Bubba Free John

- The Creative Function of Life-Frustration in the Process of Self-Sacrifice

Leela - Andrew Johnson
"The first time I saw Master Da Free John was in 1974 at an incredibly powerful..."

Lesson of Life - Bodily Location of Happiness
NARCISSUS, IGNORANCE, AND HAPPINESS are the three principal Subjects of the Argument that must be heard (or understood).

Life and Light Principles - Adi Da Samraj
"In the body you are associated with the principle of Life, and at the brain core you are associated with the principle of Light. The vital being must merge in the Life-principle, and the mind must merge in the Light-principle."

Love is a Fierce Force - (equal to what must be changed) - Description of 'Lopez Island'
"In early April, while visiting Seattle, Avatar Adi Da Samraj accepted the invitation of a devotee to stay at her home in the San Juan Islands just south of the Canadian border"

Ma Devaki - Devotee of Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar
"I can tell you this about Devaki she has always been a rare devotee.."

Maddness of the Universe - excerpt from the Avon Lady
"Are all awakened men Gurus?"

Maitri - Marvin Casper 1975
"Maitri can be translated as 'love'. It means a warm, friendly attitude. In making friends with someone, it means accepting their neurosis as well as their sanity."

Man and Woman - Vishnu Bhagavata
She is language; he is thought -She is prudence; he is law -He is reason; she is sense

Mandukya Upanishad - shortest of the major Upanishads
"The restless mind cannot think of the transcendental Reality without the help of a concrete symbol. Thinking is possible only through symbols."

Mark My Words (excerpt) - Adi Da Samraj
"We are moving into the time when God will make the move. This is the beginning of it. Mark My Words."

Meditation, Enquiry and Understanding - Franklin Jones, 1970
"Understanding, from the beginning and forever, is the source of our true and real life."

Meditation of Understanding - Knee of Listening
"The history of my experience as a seeker is a course of experimentation in relation to the forces of life conceived as the problem of existence on various levels of experience."

Meher Baba - Adi Da Comments on Psycho Mysticism Unveiled - A book on Meher Baba
"Meher Baba is but one example of a Spiritual Master who, along with such others as Ramakrishna, Shirdi Sai Baba, Anandamayi Ma, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Nityananda, and Ramana Maharshi, is believed, by many, to be a Divine Avatar of the modern era."

Meher Baba - God to Man and Man to God
"God-realization is different from all other states of consciousness because they are experienced through the medium of the individual mind, whereas God-consciousness is not dependent upon the individual mind."

Meher Baba and a Sadhu
"A WANDERING SANYASI, who was a recluse and an ascetic, once showed up at Meherabad during this period. He had heard of Meher Baba and wanted the Master's darshan."

Meher Baba - Adi Da Comments on The Wayfares - The Wayfarers, by William Donkin
"This book is a unique document about a type of apparently psychotic individual (called a "mast")"

Memory - Beezone's Notes on habit energy of the mind
Discrimination is the result of memory (VASANA...habit energy) accumulated from the unkown past. VASANA (memory) literally means 'perfuming' or 'fumigation', ...

Mighty Atom - Reminiscing about the Mighty Atom & Slim Farmam
"The last of the Great Strongmen (The Mighty Atom) returned in the person of Slim "The Hammer Man" Farman."

Money Food and Sex - Method of the Siddhas, 1973
"When people become involved in any kind of religious or spiritual activity.....there is the subtle suggestion that spiritual life has something to do with separation from vital and physical life."

Monkey's Tale - Frank Marrero
"I remember the first time I saw the face of Bubba Free John; noble, happy, beautiful; in an advertisement in the East West Journal in 1975"

Most Difficult Stage -EWB
"The most difficult stage is the one of transition from Lawless, subhuman existence to the responsible beginning of spiritual life"

Mother and Father - Adi Da Samraj
"This is also why it is very important for children to grow up in a larger social domain and not be isolated with their parents"

Moving beyond Subhuman Sexuality - Love of the Two Armed Form
"You may like the idea of applying esoteric principles to your sexuality, but it is complete nonsense. You are not responsible, not truly human. You will simply be using these techniques as a way of reinforcing the self-possessed motives of your ordinary and unillumined life."

My Heart is Free - 1970 - Adi Da Samraj
"Sitting in my room a few minutes ago and suddenly know who I am. A magnificent flow moved through me, through the Flow of Everything."

Name DA - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
" Then the men said to him: "Please instruct us, Sir" To them he uttered the same syllable da and asked: "Have you understood?"

Nagarjuna - Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
"Nagarjuna's life comprised three great periods of auspicious deeds that correspond to Buddha's three turnings of the Wheel of Dharma; which is why he is often referred to as 'the Second Buddha."

Nature and Function of Guru - Adi Da Samraj
"My devotees must understand themselves in relation to methods, concepts, promises, beliefs, and the apparently extraordinary activity of subtle forces. If they do so, they will remain free of their illusions in the world. If they do not, they have chosen the path of Narcissus rather than the Way of Satsang with Me."

Necessity of the Guru - Adi Da's latest word on the belief and disbelief of the Guru Function
"Until there is the development of significantly effective self-understanding relative to the developmental problems ...associated with the first three stages of life,...will, characteristically, tend to relate to such possible esoteric practice in either a childish or an adolescent manner."

Nirvana and Samsara Are Not the Same - Adi Da Samraj
"...in the mode of "pop" Buddhism formulae such as "Nirvana and samsara are the same" are reduced to slogans that justify the conventions of egoity in the lesser stages of life."

Nirvanasara - The Book - Adi Da Samraj

Radical Transcentalism and the Introduction of Advaitayana Buddhism

No One Is the Beloved of God - The Way That I Teach
"God-Realization is not a relationship to some great something that loves you. No one is the beloved of God, absolutely no one. God is not the kind of Reality that makes beloveds out of creatures."

Not Everyone Can Identify with Me - Dawn Horse 1975
" It is not necessary for every one to belong to the special class of individuals whom it was my unique obligation to serve......"

Oedipal Teachings- Adi Da
"The Oedipal complex is a primitive and unconscious force of reaction to our mother and father that controls our lives and realities like an unwritten script"

Of Baldness, Hats, and Wax Apples - Adi Da

Do brains speak the Truth? Do brains know the Truth?

Paradox of Instruction - The 1977 Book

The Parental Deity and the One to Be Realized -

True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

Peace Letter - Open Letter to All - Adi Da Samraj
"...human beings are inherently disposed to control and dominate all that they presume to be "not-self". For this reason, individual egocentric lives are a constant expression of fear, sorrow, anger, and un-love."

Peter Malakoff - Story Teller
"Beware of Storytellers. They are the most dangerous of all beings."

Philosophically there are only 5 points of view - Adi Da
"There are only five possible orientations, each built upon the one immediately previous to itself:"

Politics for Men and Women - Adi Da Samraj 1993
"Because present-day human individuals are everywhere socially indoctrinated to be afraid of their own inherent life-impulse toward unity with all and All, we have the present-day world"

Prayer - 1978 talk - Adi Da Samraj
"If this prayer is made fully, psychically, heartfelt, bodily, truly, even intuitively with a sense of the rightness of it, then it is likely that these changes will take place."

Ram Dass - Yesterday and Today
On a sunny May afternoon, a 41 year old man with long, wiry, graying hair emerged from the Boston International Arrivals Terminal carrying a suitcase full of Indian silks and an unwieldy, bowl shaped instrument called a tamboura."

Ramana Maharshi and Bubba Free John 1977
"Devotion to the Spiritual Master obliges the heart, mind, and life of the devotee as long as these remain. Bubba Free John is such a devotee"

Ramana Maharshi - The Teaching and Realization - Adi Da Samraj
"Ramana Maharshi was a principal modern example of a Great Sage (or a true Realizer of the Inherent Samadhi of Consciousness Itself) within the (originally) Upanishadic tradition of Advaita Vedanta"

Ramana Maharshi - Beezone Index on Him
Items on or about Ramana Maharshi on Beezone

Rang Avadhoot - 1898 - 1968
"H.H. Ranga Avadhoot (Paduranga Vitthal Valame) or well known as Pujya Bapji - descent on 21-11-1898"

Religious Ambivalence of Western Man - The Way That I Teach
"Western people is ambivalent. Westerners are very worldly and strong on the one hand, when religion permits worldliness, and on the other hand they are phasing, weak, always threatened at the level of subjective, or psychic, responsibility."

Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity - The Way That I Teach
"Throughout history human beings have been looking for something to sustain them. Everything from Jesus to Amanita muscaria, the sacred mushroom"

Resond and Cooperate -

from Crazy Wisdom Magazine - March/April 1987, Vol 6. No2

Rig Veda - The Rigveda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods (devas).
"Ruler of sacrifices, guard of Law eternal, radiant One, Increasing in thine own abode."

Right Effort - It's a contradiction and a paradox
"Attention itself is that fracturing. The objects are representations of the results of that fracturing, worked out in every possibility of duality."

Right View - Aid Da - January 1999
"When expansion is perfectly counter to contraction, that is infinity"

Sacred Sound - OM - Adi Da Samraj
"Do you know, the true esoteric significance of the sacred word "Om"?

Sadguru Shri Vasudevanand -1854-1913
Shri Vasudevanand Saraswati (Tembe) Swami, the great saint and ascetic who revived the ancient Dattatreya tradition

Sadguru Sri Gnanananda - Sage and great yogi
"Shri Sivarathnagiri Swami He transferred all His powers of penance to His Priya-Shishya and christened him as Shri Gnanananda Giri"

Sat Chit Ananda (Invisible Man) - 1975
"Recently I have said a few things about the distinction between the Guru function, or Siddhi, the difference between that and the Teaching. They are two very different functions."

Scared Texts of Hinduism - Archive

Science of Soul - Shri Yogeshwarananda - The Introduction
"How is Jivatman, the individual soul which is concealed by the combination of three bodies, to be realised...." that is the subject of this book.

Secret Identity of the Holy Spirit - Adi Da Samraj
"we must awaken from our self-protecting illusions of religious safety, and we must surrender to the Current of life in which the body and the mind are swimming forever."

Secret of How to Change - Adi Da Samraj
"True change and advanced human adaptation are not made on the basis of any self conscious resistance to old, degenerative, and sub human habits."

Secret Identity of the Holy Spirit of God - Chapter 6 - Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House
"The religious consciousness of Western Man is trapped within an archaic structure of myths, dogmas, and social conflicts"

Seed of self - Origin of self
"instant of differentiation the most primitive archetype of all knowledge appears"

Self Observation vs Self Watching - from "I" Is the Body of Life
"You assume a kind of abstracted "witness" point of view, stand back, see it all..."

Seven States of Eternal Life - The Way That I Teach

Seven Stages of Life - From the Next Option
" In the traditions of spiritual culture, the development of a human being has often been described in terms of seven stages, each spanning a period of seven years. There is a rational basis in Awakened Wisdom for this scheme."

Seven Gifts - Adi Da Samraj
"The First Gift..."

Sex and Emotion - Hearts Shout - Adi Da Samraj
"Sane sexuality is love expressed"

Shining Center - Comments on the 'Queen Bee' principle
" Traditional sacred society, large or small, has had a kind of hierarchical way of organizing itself."

Shirdi Sai Baba - Leelas of Sai Baba of Shirdi

Shri Yogeshwarananda - How he met his Guru
"On his arrival at the cave he saw a lustrous figure sitting in a lotus pose and meditating. He had spread some earth on two logs of wood and covered it with the bark of a tree, and was sitting on that seat. His pose was quiet and absolutely motionless"

Sivananda - Guru principle
"The Guru is God Himself manifesting in a personal form to guide the aspirant. Grace of God takes the form of the Guru."

Siva Sutras c. 800 C.E.
"The Aphorisms of Siva, or Siva Sutras (SS), are a late reiteration of the Vedic view of consciousness."

Sky of Mind - Songs of the Enlighten Heart
"The mind is like a cave of bats. Countless eyes are suspended in darkness, with sharp feet clinging to the convolutions of the brain, hiding from light."

Soma - Edible Diety - Eating Gorilla (Adi Da)
"The search for the cubic sustainer, or food, the Food Deity, the Edible Master, is a futile search, but still it occupies men all over the world."

Soul Realization vs God Realization - Dawn Horse Mag (76) talk on ascended experiences
"The God-Light in Truth is not known apart from the dissolution of the ego or causal principle, the seat of subjectivity, in the Heart. "

Spirit - Compulsory Dancing
"The Spirit is not to be found in visions or in forms. The Spirit is not knowable or capable of being mentalized , grasped, or objectified."

Spirit Worship - Adi Da Samraj
"We must distinguish between the popular Christian cult that exists today and the esoteric teaching of Jesus."

Spiritual Instructions of Swami Muktananda - 1974 Bubba Free John

Spiritual Maturity - 1981 Da Free John"
"....spiritual maturity is one in which the real facts of conditional existence are clearly observed, understood, and transcended.... which is a free intelligence, matured beyond the beginner's mind in which the Way has its original basis"

Spoiled Child - Childish Approach to Spirituality - Adi Da Samraj
"You have got to come to the point where you are strong enough as yourself to be love without all the supportive baloney, the illusions."

Sri Seshadri Swamigali - Contempory of Ramana Maharshi
"Sri Seshadri Swamigal was known for his great spiritual eminence and for his yogic power through tapas."

Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar - Begger Saint
"The person that came to be called Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar was born on December 1, 1918, along the banks of the Ganges in a village adjacent to Kashi.."

Structure of Illusion and Enlightenment
"Thus, the Divine appears to have divided Itself, becoming Consciousness on the one hand, and Dynamic Manifestation on the other"

Sudden and Gradual Path - EWB
"As long as you are attached to the mind and body, you must keep these states active. You must continue to have experiences in order to give yourself the sense of existence."

Swami Prakashananda
"A vessel of happiness...a beautiful being who breathed the spiritual force in such a way that it saturated his entire body." - Adi Da Samraj

Talking and Practicing School of Advaita - Comments of Advaita Vedanta
The modern "practicing" school of Advaitism is clearly represented and advocated by such Teachers as Swami Gnanananda, Brahmajna Ma, and Ramana Maharshi. Such Teachers also "talk", and their disciples listen, but real qualifications (including practical self-discipline) are expected.

Talks with Ramana Marharshi - 1935-6
"What more is there to say, but to advise one and all to read this book and try to make it a part of themselves? Not one word to be passed over lightly, or one conversation to be dismissed as superfluous.''
Sadhu Arunachala, Major A. W. Chadwick

Tape to CD Project - The Beezone
Beezone converts old (and some new) tapes to digital (wav ,mp3/4) files to preserve the teaching word of Adi Da

Taboo against the Superior Man - Love of the Armed Form (Chapter 2)
Dracula and Frankenstein: The Ancient Superior Man as Scapegoat for the Modern Inferior Man

Teaching and Realization of Ramana Maharshi - Adi Da Samraj
"Ramana Maharshi was a principal modern example of a Great Sage within the Upanishadic tradition of Advaita Vedanta. He affirmed Ultimate Realization only as Samadhi"

Theatre of Consideration - 10/27/1981 - Adi Da Samraj
"You can't just get the Truth in a couple of one-liners or a few paragraphs, or one book. You have to devote your life to it."

Times in which we live - Beezone
If we lived in more or less holy times, you see, and and there were true spiritual masters around we could perhaps live quite comfortably here. But that is not the way it is.

Three Stations of the Heart - Left, Center and Right Heart
The Heart Is The Primal Structure In the body-mind.

Tripura Rahasya - ...beyond the Trinity
Tripura Rahasya was considered by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi as one of the greatest works that expounded advaita philosophy

True Teaching Is a Renewal of Culture - The Way That I Teach

"The Teaching I am here to demonstrate is not an Eastern philosophy, nor is it a Westerner's recounting of his experience in the East. It is a reunion of the great divisions of culture."

View That Must Be Tested - Adi Da Samraj
"The waking world is not a " place," a fixed shape, but a sizeless realm, an undefinable dimension just as the condition or region into which you enter in dreams is an undefinable realm."

Virtue of Discomfort - Adi Da - 1982
"...nobody wants to be uncomfortable. Everybody wants to be comfortable....we try to maintain a level of consolation and involvement with all of this stuff so that we won't feel uncomfortable...can't avoid that discomfort; it's essential to your conditional life. You must find it; locate it, really use it."

Way and The Realization - EWB
"As long as the conventions of experience persist, there must be the Way and the Realization, both."

Way That I Teach - The book - 1977

Weavers Path - Adi Da Samraj
"in the American Indian traditions especially, they put in what is called the "weaver’s pathway"

Work of The Spiritual Master - I am John the Messenger of Da
"I entered this world without dissociation from the Divine Conscious Being, the Great Purusha, the ultimate Divine, but I have also been given all the limits of human experience."

Taboo against the Superior Man - Love of the Armed Form (Chapter 2)
"The Ancient Superior Man as Scapegoat for the Modern Inferior Man"

The Times We Live In - Beezone

There is a Law - Prasad Day 1973
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

There is Only Light - Chapter fm Dawn Horse Testament
"There is Only Light. Light Is All There Is. All That Is Is Light"

Three Dharmas - Adi Da Samraj - 1973
"From time to time, men have appeared whose function it was to communicate the nature of this process and its various functions. Each of these individuals appeared in a particular time and place under particular conditions."

Three Stations of the Heart - Adi Da describes as the three stations of the heart
"It Is Basically Made Of Three Parts, Indicated By The Left Side, The Middle Station, and The Right Side."