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1
Beezone - What is it - Introduction
2
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.."

3
White and Orange Books - Beezone Project
White and Orange Books project is based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown books
4
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.

5
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
6
Dawn Horse Magazine - Early Magazine of Devotees

7
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?
8
Peter Malakoff - Story Teller
"Beware of Storytellers. They are the most dangerous of all beings."

9
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...."
10
Garbage and Goddess - The book

11
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"
12
The Knee of Listening - The 1971 Book

13
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."
14
The Paradox of Instruction - The 1977 Book

15
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."
16
Breath and Name - The book

17
Adi Da Video on Google Videos - Beezone
18
The Way That I Teach - The book - 1977

19
Embracing Reality - Brad Reynolds
Brad's book on Ken Wilber
20
Leela - The Fight

21
Unknown Jerome Cookies - A Man eats a cookie because...
A man does not buy a cookie because he is hungry...
22
The Enlightenment of the Whole Body - 1978 Book

23
Bodhisattva - Trungpa and Adi Da's Comments
From Adi Da and Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche on the nature of the Bodhisattva
24
Da Avocado - March 1982
"One morning during "Darshan" (spiritual sighting of the Divine) at The Manner of Flowers an avocado fell.."

25
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
26
Zen Masters -Adi Da (Franklin Jones)
"Zen Masters demonstrated a very useful wisdom in the way they taught. The great ones did not each at all!"

27
Ken Wilber - Letters and link
28
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..

29
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"
30
Tom Riley - Devotee 1971 to Present
"Franklin Jones as I understand him to be, both today and back then, 33 years ago, was and is not limited to his physical location."

31
Integral Therapy - D. B. Sleeth
"Mindfulness and “Radical” Non-Dualism and Their Relevancy for Clinical Practice"
32
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."

33
Bodhisvatta Vow - c. 800 C.E. - Kishitigarbha Vow Sutra
34
Man and Woman - Vishnu Bhagavata
She is language; he is thought -She is prudence; he is law -He is reason; she is sense

35
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."
36
Leela - Andrew Johnson
"The first time I saw Master Da Free John was in 1974 at an incredibly powerful..."

37
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', ...
38
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..."

39
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."
40
Karma - Reginal Ray - Shambhala Sun
"Buddhism highlights two types of karma."

41
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."
42
.Vanished Gardens of Cordova - (sound file attached)

43
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
44
The Spiritual Instructions of Swami Muktananda - 1974 Bubba Free John (Franklin Jones)

45
The Times We Live In - Beezone

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1	Beezone - What is it - Introduction	2	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.."
3	White and Orange Books - Beezone Project White and Orange Books project is based on Ludwig Wittgenstein's Blue and Brown books	4	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.
5	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	6	Dawn Horse Magazine - Early Magazine of Devotees
7	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?	8	Peter Malakoff - Story Teller "Beware of Storytellers. They are the most dangerous of all beings."
9	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...."	10	Garbage and Goddess - The book
11	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"	12	The Knee of Listening - The 1971 Book
13	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."	14	The Paradox of Instruction - The 1977 Book
15	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."	16	Breath and Name - The book
17	Adi Da Video on Google Videos - Beezone	18	The Way That I Teach - The book - 1977
19	Embracing Reality - Brad Reynolds Brad's book on Ken Wilber	20	Leela - The Fight
21	Unknown Jerome Cookies - A Man eats a cookie because... A man does not buy a cookie because he is hungry...	22	The Enlightenment of the Whole Body - 1978 Book
23	Bodhisattva - Trungpa and Adi Da's Comments From Adi Da and Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche on the nature of the Bodhisattva	24	Da Avocado - March 1982 "One morning during "Darshan" (spiritual sighting of the Divine) at The Manner of Flowers an avocado fell.."
25	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	26	Zen Masters -Adi Da (Franklin Jones) "Zen Masters demonstrated a very useful wisdom in the way they taught. The great ones did not each at all!"
27	Ken Wilber - Letters and link	28	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..
29	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"	30	Tom Riley - Devotee 1971 to Present "Franklin Jones as I understand him to be, both today and back then, 33 years ago, was and is not limited to his physical location."
31	Integral Therapy - D. B. Sleeth "Mindfulness and “Radical” Non-Dualism and Their Relevancy for Clinical Practice"	32	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."
33	Bodhisvatta Vow - c. 800 C.E. - Kishitigarbha Vow Sutra	34	Man and Woman - Vishnu Bhagavata She is language; he is thought -She is prudence; he is law -He is reason; she is sense
35	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."	36	Leela - Andrew Johnson "The first time I saw Master Da Free John was in 1974 at an incredibly powerful..."
37	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', ...	38	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..."
39	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."	40	Karma - Reginal Ray - Shambhala Sun "Buddhism highlights two types of karma."
41	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."	42	.Vanished Gardens of Cordova - (sound file attached)
43	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	44	The Spiritual Instructions of Swami Muktananda - 1974 Bubba Free John (Franklin Jones)
45	The Times We Live In - Beezone