Adi Da Samraj, Bubba Free John

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1
Understanding - Adi Da's first talk
"in an undertone barely audible to anyone but Himself, "Who will cast the first stone?"
2
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."

3
Adi Da's Guru? - Adi Da's regard for his lineage
My Great Regard for My Adept-Links to the Great Tradition of Mankind...
4
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."

5
Meditation, Enquiry and Understanding - Franklin Jones, 1970
"Understanding, from the beginning and forever, is the source of our true and real life."
6
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."

7
Way and The Realization - EWB
"As long as the conventions of experience persist, there must be the Way and the Realization, both."
8
Double Bind - unpublished notes 1971 - Adi Da Samraj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."

9
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."
10
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."

11
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."
12
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

13
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"
14
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...

15
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......"
16
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:"

17
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. "
18
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"

19
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!"
20
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."

21
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.
22
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."

23
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"
24
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."

25
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"
26
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."

27
Sex and Emotion - Hearts Shout - Adi Da Samraj
"Sane sexuality is love expressed"
28
Maddness of the Universe - excerpt from the Avon Lady
"Are all awakened men Gurus?"

29
Kundalini Shakti - The Basket Of Tolerance, Booklet Series
"There are actually two distinct (and very different) traditions associated with the cosmically manifested Kundalini Shakti."
30
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."

31
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"
32
Right View - Aid Da - January 1999
"When expansion is perfectly counter to contraction, that is infinity"

33
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."
34
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."

35
There is a Law - Prasad Day 1973
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
36
1974-1977 - The Communion, Dawn Horse and Vision Mound Magazines

37
Taboo against the Superior Man - Love of the Armed Form (Chapter 2)
"The Ancient Superior Man as Scapegoat for the Modern Inferior Man"
38
Golden Great Bright Foreheaded Warrior - 1979 on Krishna

39
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."
40
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."

41
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"
42
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!"

43
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."
44
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."

45
Adi Da Video on Google Videos - Beezone
46
Breath and Name - The book

47
The Paradox of Instruction - The 1977 Book
48
Garbage and Goddess - The book

49
The Enlightenment of the Whole Body - 1978 Book
50
The Way That I Teach - The book - 1977

51
The Knee of Listening - The 1971 Book
52
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."

53
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."
54
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"

55
You Can't By Pass the Fire - Adi Da (Bubba Free John) - 1978
Quicktime movie - 2 mins
56
.Nirvanasara - The Book - Adi Da Samraj
Radical Transcentalism and the Introduction of Advaitayana Buddhism

57
Impingement of Experience - Adi Da (Bubba Free John) - 1976
58
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1	Understanding - Adi Da's first talk "in an undertone barely audible to anyone but Himself, "Who will cast the first stone?"	2	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."
3	Adi Da's Guru? - Adi Da's regard for his lineage My Great Regard for My Adept-Links to the Great Tradition of Mankind...	4	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."
5	Meditation, Enquiry and Understanding - Franklin Jones, 1970 "Understanding, from the beginning and forever, is the source of our true and real life."	6	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."
7	Way and The Realization - EWB "As long as the conventions of experience persist, there must be the Way and the Realization, both."	8	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."
9	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."	10	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."
11	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."	12	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
13	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"	14	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...
15	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......"	16	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:"
17	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. "	18	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"
19	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!"	20	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."
21	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.	22	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."
23	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"	24	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."
25	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"	26	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."
27	Sex and Emotion - Hearts Shout - Adi Da Samraj "Sane sexuality is love expressed"	28	Maddness of the Universe - excerpt from the Avon Lady "Are all awakened men Gurus?"
29	Kundalini Shakti - The Basket Of Tolerance, Booklet Series "There are actually two distinct (and very different) traditions associated with the cosmically manifested Kundalini Shakti."	30	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."
31	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"	32	Right View - Aid Da - January 1999 "When expansion is perfectly counter to contraction, that is infinity"
33	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."	34	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."
35	There is a Law - Prasad Day 1973 "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."	36	1974-1977 - The Communion, Dawn Horse and Vision Mound Magazines
37	Taboo against the Superior Man - Love of the Armed Form (Chapter 2) "The Ancient Superior Man as Scapegoat for the Modern Inferior Man"	38	Golden Great Bright Foreheaded Warrior - 1979 on Krishna
39	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."	40	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."
41	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"	42	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!"
43	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."	44	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."
45	Adi Da Video on Google Videos - Beezone	46	Breath and Name - The book
47	The Paradox of Instruction - The 1977 Book	48	Garbage and Goddess - The book
49	The Enlightenment of the Whole Body - 1978 Book	50	The Way That I Teach - The book - 1977
51	The Knee of Listening - The 1971 Book	52	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."
53	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."	54	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"
55	You Can't By Pass the Fire - Adi Da (Bubba Free John) - 1978 Quicktime movie - 2 mins	56	.Nirvanasara - The Book - Adi Da Samraj Radical Transcentalism and the Introduction of Advaitayana Buddhism
57	Impingement of Experience - Adi Da (Bubba Free John) - 1976	58	..