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Understanding
- Adi
Da's first talk
"in
an undertone barely audible to anyone but Himself,
"Who will cast the first stone?"
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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."
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Adi
Da's Guru?
- Adi
Da's regard for his lineage
My
Great Regard for My Adept-Links to the Great
Tradition of Mankind.
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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."
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Meditation,
Enquiry and
Understanding
- Franklin
Jones, 1970
"Understanding,
from the beginning and forever, is the source of
our true and real life."
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The
First Thing You Shoud
Do -
Adi
Da Samraj
"The
thing that makes you unhappy is your own
contraction. That's it,
absolutely!"
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Way
and The
Realization
- EWB
"As
long as the conventions of experience persist,
there must be the Way and the Realization,
both."
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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unpublished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."
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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."
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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 societyand this is why the signs of the
times are so profoundly negative."
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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."
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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
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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"
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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...
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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......"
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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:"
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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. "
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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"
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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!"
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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"
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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."
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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"
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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."
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Sex
and Emotion
-
Hearts Shout -
Adi
Da Samraj
"Sane
sexuality is love expressed"
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Maddness
of the Universe
- excerpt
from the Avon Lady
"Are
all awakened men Gurus?"
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Kundalini
Shakti
- The Basket Of Tolerance, Booklet Series
"There
are actually two distinct (and very different)
traditions associated with the cosmically
manifested Kundalini Shakti."
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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."
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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"
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Right
View
- Aid Da - January 1999
"When
expansion is perfectly counter to contraction, that
is infinity"
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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."
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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."
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There
is a Law
- Prasad
Day 1973
"For
every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction."
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1974-1977
- The
Communion, Dawn Horse and Vision Mound
Magazines
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Taboo
against the Superior
Man -
Love
of the Armed Form (Chapter 2)
"The
Ancient Superior Man as Scapegoat for the Modern
Inferior Man"
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Golden
Great Bright Foreheaded
Warrior
-
1979 on Krishna
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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."
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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."
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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"
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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!"
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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."
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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."
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Adi
Da Video on Google
Videos -
Beezone
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Breath
and Name
- The
book
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The
Paradox of
Instruction
- The
1977 Book
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Garbage
and Goddess
- The
book
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The
Enlightenment of the Whole
Body -
1978
Book
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The
Way That I Teach
- The
book - 1977
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The
Knee of Listening
- The
1971 Book
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Method
of the Siddhas
- The
1972 Book
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The
Dreaded Gom Boo
- The
1982 Book
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. Nirvanasara
- The
Book - Adi Da Samraj
Radical
Transcentalism and the Introduction of Advaitayana
Buddhism.
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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."
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Secret
of Beatitude
- Adi
Da - "That is
what Enlightenment is! Not some..."
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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."
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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"
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You
Can't Bypass the
Fire -
Adi
Da (Bubba Free John) -
1978
Quicktime
movie - 2 mins
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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
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Impingement
of Experience
- Adi
Da (Bubba Free John) - 1976
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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
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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."
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Relationship
and Associations
- Adi
Da - 1973
From the
Method of the Siddhas redone in My "Bright" Word -
Chapter 7..
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Do
Not Misunderstand
Me
- Adi
Da Samraj
"Yes! There
is no religion, no Way of God, no Way of Divine
Realization..."..
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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..."..
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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.
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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."
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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."
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The
Universe is a Laughing
Matter
-
Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon
Be Announced by the White House Dance!
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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.."
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The
"Brightening" Way Talk
Series -
The
Yajna Discourses of Santosha Adi Da
(1995-1996)
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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"
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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.."
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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."
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Witness,
Attention and The Feeling of
Relatedness
-
Adi
Da Samraj - 1990 - "
Attention,
the feeling of relatedness and the Position of the
Witness Consciousness"
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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."
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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."
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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?"
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Purification
of Karma
- Adi
Da - "you
must get wisdom...understand....do sadhana..be
purified of karma. People think...Mind is just
brain...when youre dead youre dead.
Well its not true."
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End
of Adi Da's
Teaching
- Adi
Da - 1996
-
"it was
obvious...there was nothing more I
could..teach"
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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.
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The
Myth of Within
- Adi
Da
- Guru Day
1973
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The
Search for Union -
Adi
Da
- "The
feeling of separation that instigates the motive to
union."
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Esoteric
Anatomy and The Great Tradition of Human
History -
Adi
Da - 1996 -
The
History of the Great Tradition and the Seven Stage
of Life
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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"
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The
Place Where Sadhana
Begins -
unpublished
- You may
want to forestall this
observation...".
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Health
and Desending
Current -
Crazy
Wisdom -
Da Free John on frontal
reception of the Spirit-force as it relates to
well-being. - 1983
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The
Vital is Asleep
-
Adi
Da - The
vital (navel/core region of the body - Hara -
Dantian) is not a conscious dimension
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The
Baptism of Immportal
Happiness
- Adi
Da 1982 - God
is Great. But, unfortunately for you, bullshit is
greater!
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Primal
Urge for Sanctuary -
1978
talk -
Adi
Da Samraj
"We are
threatened"
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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.
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Perpetual
"reality
consideration"
- Heart
Conversion Talk Series -
3/25/93 -
What is the self-contraction and where is
it?
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The
Completing Discourses of the 25-Year
Revelation -
Adi
Da -
1994-1995
- Recapitulated the entire Way of the
Heart
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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
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