"I can't give you any more than that even though I am here to give you everything. I can't effectively give you anything more than you will receive." Adi Da Samraj - 1996 Bhagavan Adi Da Samraj Divine Mahasamadhi (death/passing) Understanding - Adi Da's first talk "in an undertone barely audible to anyone but Himself, "Who will cast the first stone?"  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."  Adi Da's Guru? - Adi Da's regard for his lineage My Great Regard for My Adept-Links to the Great Tradition of Mankind. Seven Stages of Life - Adi Da - The inevitable destiny of every human being. " 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." Meditation, Enquiry and Understanding - Franklin Jones, 1970 "Understanding, from the beginning and forever, is the source of our true and real life." The First Thing You Shoud Do - Adi Da Samraj "The thing that makes you unhappy is your own contraction. That's it, absolutely!" Way and The Realization - EWB "As long as the conventions of experience persist, there must be the Way and the Realization, both." Double Bind - unpublished notes 1971 - Adi Da Samraj "One who is beginning to understand first recognizes that he (she) is suffering, fundamentally unhappy, unsatisfied, and chronically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." 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." 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." 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." 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 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" 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... 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......" 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:" 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. " 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" 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!" 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." 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. 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." 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" The 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." 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" The 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." Sex and Emotion - Hearts Shout - Adi Da Samraj "Sane sexuality is love expressed" Maddness of the Universe - excerpt from the Avon Lady "Are all awakened men Gurus?" Kundalini Shakti - The Basket Of Tolerance, Booklet Series "There are actually two distinct (and very different) traditions associated with the cosmically manifested Kundalini Shakti." 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." 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" Right View - Aid Da - January 1999 "When expansion is perfectly counter to contraction, that is infinity" 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." Virtue of Discomfort -1982 "Tibetan tradition where they speak of bardos they mean all of these in between states and there are many sequences you see and this is one of the bardos then." There is a Law - Prasad Day 1973 "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." 1974-1977 - The Communion, Dawn Horse and Vision Mound Magazines Taboo against the Superior Man - Love of the Armed Form (Chapter 2) "The Ancient Superior Man as Scapegoat for the Modern Inferior Man" Golden Great Bright Foreheaded Warrior - 1979 on Krishna Touch - Laughing Man Magazine "Touch is precisely the dimension in which you must become awake. You must transcend the intellectualizable senses of sight and hearing and so forth." 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." 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" This is a Mind-Made Realm - Adi Da Samraj - 1983 "This is mind only! This is mind! Mind only! This is mind only. This! This is the bardo, the transition place. This!" 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." 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." Adi Da Video on Google Videos - Beezone Breath and Name - The book The Paradox of Instruction - The 1977 Book Garbage and Goddess - The book The Enlightenment of the Whole Body - 1978 Book The Way That I Teach - The book - 1977 The Knee of Listening - The 1971 Book Method of the Siddhas - The 1972 Book The Dreaded Gom Boo - The 1982 Book .Nirvanasara - The Book - Adi Da Samraj Radical Transcentalism and the Introduction of Advaitayana Buddhism. 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." Secret of Beatitude - Adi Da - "That is what Enlightenment is! Not some..." Vital Shock - Adi Da "when this contraction (cramp in the vital region) occurs in the vital, you not only get a cramp in the stomach - you have an entire life of suffering." 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" You Can't Bypass the Fire - Adi Da (Bubba Free John) - 1978 Quicktime movie - 2 mins Beyond the Koan- From a talk - Adi Da Going beyond the contradictory mind of duality and the emotion of the double-bind. The beginning of Listening and Hearing Impingement of Experience - Adi Da (Bubba Free John) - 1976 Reality-Humanity - Self-Liberated From The Stave In The Wheels - Adi Da (June 2008) Latest on the World situation and the need for political, social, economic, and cultural awakening The Obligation of Eternal Existence - Adi Da - 1978 "What I'm describing to you all is a process that belongs to the further evolution of humanity." Relationship and Associations - Adi Da - 1973 From the Method of the Siddhas redone in My "Bright" Word - Chapter 7.. Do Not Misunderstand Me - Adi Da Samraj "Yes! There is no religion, no Way of God, no Way of Divine Realization...".. The Great Esoteric Tradition of Devotion to the Adept-Relalizer - Adi Da Samraj "...in the domain of the first three stages of life that the Guru is....taboo...".. No "One" Survives Beyond That Moment - My Bright Word Truth is not a conditional state. Truth is not a perception or a thought. When there is truly no "difference", no "one" survives. If there truly is the Most Perfect Realization of Non-separateness, no "one" survives beyond that moment. 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." 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." The Universe is a Laughing Matter - Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House Dance! Klik- Klak - Adi Da on the mechanical nature of existence - the only "you" that is constant.. is trying to have a sense of identity, looking for a ...fixed person ..in the memories, concepts.." The "Brightening" Way Talk Series - The Yajna Discourses of Santosha Adi Da (1995-1996) Transcend the Self Knot of Fear - Adi Da Samraj - 2006 "You cannot escape fear unless something changes about your understanding. ...you cannot get rid of fear. There is no intoxication, no diversion, nothing that will de-sensitize.. anything you do is temporary" The Test of Human Existence - Adi Da Samraj - 1978 - "is whether you will persist as love, whether you will transcend yourself; transcend your contraction, your flight from relationship, your limitation on love.." Relaxed Attention, Free Attention and The Sleeping State - Adi Da Samraj - 1990 - "You must go beyond the limitations... of the interior. Ultimately you must go beyond bare attention, which is the state in sleep." Witness, Attention and The Feeling of Relatedness - Adi Da Samraj - 1990 - " Attention, the feeling of relatedness and the Position of the Witness Consciousness" Low, Middle and Higher Self - Adi Da Samraj - 1978 - "...your present stage of life or evolution represent the argument between what is traditionally called the middle self and the low self...this middle self is basically under the control of the mind." The Causal Position - Adi Da - 1995 "The ego...can be said to be at cause ...subtle and gross appearances and activities of the individual body mind." Can Realization Be Lost in Life or in the Death Process? - Adi Da - 1995 "Can one lose his or her realization while alive or in death?" Purification of Karma - Adi Da - "you must get wisdom...understand....do sadhana..be purified of karma. People think...Mind is just brain...when you’re dead you’re dead. Well it’s not true." End of Adi Da's Teaching - Adi Da - 1996 - "it was obvious...there was nothing more I could..teach" Sorrows and Losses - Adi Da - This world is at best a brief amusement. All passes...and your turn is coming. You must know the place you are in. The Myth of Within - Adi Da - Guru Day 1973 The Search for Union - Adi Da - "The feeling of separation that instigates the motive to union." Esoteric Anatomy and The Great Tradition of Human History - Adi Da - 1996 - The History of the Great Tradition and the Seven Stage of Life The Art of Spiritual Life - Da Free Johe - 1983 (Crazy Wisdom) - "you are trying to get free of a knot, an opressive sense of existence" The Place Where Sadhana Begins - unpublished - You may want to forestall this observation...". Health and Desending Current - Crazy Wisdom - Da Free John on frontal reception of the Spirit-force as it relates to well-being. - 1983 The Vital is Asleep - Adi Da - The vital (navel/core region of the body - Hara - Dantian) is not a conscious dimension The Baptism of Immportal Happiness - Adi Da 1982 - God is Great. But, unfortunately for you, bullshit is greater! Primal Urge for Sanctuary - 1978 talk - Adi Da Samraj "We are threatened" The Restoration of Laugher - Scientific Proof - Wisdom that transcends all events, all the science, attainment, and failure of mind, all of culture and household consolation, all the dread or "News" of cosmic and downtown stress, all the terminal pleasures that penetrate silence, circumference, measure, probability, and death. Perpetual "reality consideration" - Heart Conversion Talk Series - 3/25/93 - What is the self-contraction and where is it? The Completing Discourses of the 25-Year Revelation - Adi Da - 1994-1995 - Recapitulated the entire Way of the Heart Ishta - Selections from The Way of Devotional Surrender to the Divine Person - 1994 - Are You Just Coping? - The Devotional Yoga of the Breath - and more   Self-contraction as Doubt - A talk in Holland in 1986 - You can think about God or whatever, arguments made by Me or anyone else. You can think about all of that, but it doesn't make it true for you. . 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