"Hearing" "Its like the original 'hearing' - understanding, because you suddenly grasp it - the self-contraction and the ability to feel beyond it."   Hearing In 1957, Adi Da begins a course of study at Columbia College in New York. During this period, Adi Da Samraj engages an intentional experiment with all forms of human experience. "So the beginnings of the process of understanding in every case is one of attention, listening, concentration and this listening becomes hearing, comprehension in various ways, self observation." The Life of Understanding - Week 5 The Right Practice Depends on 'Hearing' - Low, Middle and Higher Self The Evolution of Understanding Adi Da Samraj - 1987 The Knot of 'I' - The Self-Contraction Beezone Compliation "I remember noticing this very spontaneously and particularly noting it as this process of My "Sadhana Years" began when I was at Columbia. I remember scribbling on something about it. It just spontaneously occurred to Me when I was, it must have been in a class or something. It was a profound noticing, because at first one would be making a distinction between subjective and objective. And you feel somehow the subjective is inside you and the objective is outside you. But actually all the subjective parts are objective to you, as well. Of course, this became the Realization of the Witness in My Case, the restoration, just in these beginning observations very early on, as I went to Columbia, culminating in the event in the junior year." Paradox of Entanglement During His junior year at Columbia College, Adi Da Samraj had a sudden, profound experience that revealed to Him this depth structure of self-contraction and the Condition that is Prior to it. The context for this experience was a bold experiment that Adi Da Samraj had been engaging for the previous two years. Out of utter despair at finding Truth in any traditional source, and certainly not in the university ethos in which He was living, He had chosen an extreme course. Radical Understanding of the Ego - Carolyn Lee "You are involved in the conventional acculturation of existence, which is about coping with egoity, coping with the results of egoity, coping with conditions, coping with this thing that is suffering, just concerned about it. You certainly would like to feel better, but, on the other hand, your suffering does not seem to represent a profound puzzle to you. A profound urge to transcend it does not seem to be there in you, not a profound urge. It is as if you would like to feel better, but, on the other hand, the great impulse for Realization does not seem to be profoundly there. You would just as soon have a smiling conversation about God with somebody, because such talk makes you feel a little better and it is not very difficult. It is not great Realization, but, on the other hand, you do not seem to be profoundly impulsed to God-Realization." Are You Just Coping Adi Da Samraj - 1993 "That is the art of spiritual life granting attention and following it with total psycho-physical submission to the Spiritual Reality. People are not tending to do that, of course, and so attention is constantly getting locked into problems, conceptions that are problematic, states that are uncomfortable and problematic. The art of spiritual life, once you have, heard and, seen, is this capacity to be re-devoted in any moment to the Living Spiritual Reality. To do that, you must be equipped with hearing and seeing, you must be, able to observe and understand yourself, and primarily, what there is to observe is how attention is functioning." The Art of Spiritual Life "You must go through this hard school here. It was Columbia for me, but for you it is this hard school of consideration. There is no easy way to go through it. You all want to be calm and congratulate yourselves into the ultimate Realization of existence! It is absolutely impossible to do it that way! You must be refined and hardened, polished, brightened, awakened, quickened, transcended, perfected, or else you can be a level 1.1 practitioner or something just a little bit beyond it for the rest of your life. That is the way it is. There is not a damn thing I can do about it. Cult be damned! The cult cannot enlighten you." Study the Great Traditions Chapter 3 The Study of The Knee of Listening - Table of Contents

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