"I bow down to the most sublime of speakers, the completely awakened one who taught..."
Nagarjuna’s homage - Mulamadhyamakakarika

"Without practicing, without having some sense of understanding the meaning of practice, there is no real communication that takes place in your understanding of buddhadharma. And it is equally important to have a great deal of devotion to your teacher" Vidyadhara the Ven. Chogyam Trungpa Rinpcohe Five Skandhas - Chogyam Trungpa "To understand more precisely the process of confirming the solidity of I and other, that is, the development of ego, it is helpful to be familiar with the five skandhas, a set of Buddhist concepts which describe ego a five-step process." Why Study the Great Tradition - Adi Da "The reason such critical study is useful is that you already have all kinds of inherited, thought-up, and propagandized ideas that correspond to ideas that can be found in the traditions. Thus, you can see how those ideas traditionally get elaborated as a way of life, and you can see their limitations." Ramana Maharshi - Various articles on or about India's great sage on the Beezone References to the intuition of The Heart as the spiritual core of Being 1976 Interview with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein Bhagavan Nityananda - Vision Mound Magazine - May/June 1980 - Meg Krenz - and more....   Links to Jesus and Christianity - Christian related essays and talks by Adi Da on Beezone   Awakening to the Self - The Cakras and the Three Hearts References to the intuition of The Heart as the spiritual core of Being Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar - Begger Saint "The person that came to be called Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar was born on December 1, 1918, along the banks of the Ganges in a village adjacent to Kashi.." Gist of Hinduism - 1897 - Swami Vivehananda "The Vedas do not owe their authority to anybody, they are themselves the authority, being eternal -- the knowledge of God" Godavari Mataji "In 1941 Sati Godavari Mataji assumed the mantle of her Guru Shri Upasani Baba Maharaj with the strength, simplicity and dignity of a realized being" Esoteric Christinity - by Norman D. Livergood - " About 25-30 C.E. a mystical teacher named Jesus began to tell people...." Yoga a Buddhist Perspective - Herbert Guenther "Both the yogißvara and the rnal-'byor dbang-phyug are said to be or likened to a dancer. In the one case the emphasis is on the concrete person/god as a dancer, in the other case the emphasis is on the whole's or, psychologically speaking, the Self's dancing out its potential." Jamgon Kongtrul the Great Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Guru Siva Sutras c. 800 C.E. "The Aphorisms of Siva, or Siva Sutras (SS), are a late reiteration of the Vedic view of consciousness." Lama Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche - Doctor, Artist, & Teacher Man and Woman - Vishnu Bhagavata She is language; he is thought -She is prudence; he is law -He is reason; she is sense Internet Source of Sacred Texts - Link Rig Veda - Link Scared Texts of Hinduism - Link Advaita Vedanta Research Center - Link Katha Upanishad - Link Advaita, Ramana and the talking School - Da Free John, 1982 If people didn't fully study my Teaching they might tend to associate and even identify it with some of the traditional exercises ... in such traditions as the Advaitic tradition. Tripura Rahasya - ...beyond the Trinity Tripura Rahasya was considered by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi as one of the greatest works that expounded advaita philosophy For those who have forgotten the wisdom and humor of Alan Watts - The Book - Chapter One Training the Mind - Chogyam Trungpa TRAINING THE MIND AND CULTIVATING LOVING-KINDNESS by Chogyam Trungpa - Edited by Judith L. Lief Sri Seshadri Swamigali - Contempory of Ramana Maharshi "Sri Seshadri Swamigal was known for his great spiritual eminence and for his yogic power through tapas." Sadguru Shri Vasudevanand -1854-1913 Shri Vasudevanand Saraswati (Tembe) Swami, the great saint and ascetic who revived the ancient Dattatreya tradition Devatma Shakt - Kundalini Divine Power. by Swami Vishnu Tirtha Maharaj Sadguru Sri Gnanananda - Sage and great yogi "Shri Sivarathnagiri Swami He transferred all His powers of penance to His Priya-Shishya and christened him as Shri Gnanananda Giri" Innermost Essence - Maha ati - Trungpa "The maha ati [Tib.: dzogchen], which is beyond conceptions and transcends both grasping and letting go, is the essence of transcendental insight. This is the unchanging state of non meditation in which there is awareness but no clinging. Understanding this, I pay ceaseless homage to the maha ati with great simplicity." Rang Avadhoot - 1898 - 1968 "There was another great being called Ranga Avadhut.." Talks with Ramana Marharshi - 1935-6 "What more is there to say, but to advise one and all to read this book and try to make it a part of themselves? Not one word to be passed over lightly, or one conversation to be dismissed as superfluous.'' Sadhu Arunachala, Major A. W. Chadwick Meher Baba - Adi Da Comments on Psycho Mysticism Unveiled - A book on Meher Baba "Meher Baba is but one example of a Spiritual Master who, along with such others as Ramakrishna, Shirdi Sai Baba, Anandamayi Ma, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Nityananda, and Ramana Maharshi, is believed, by many, to be a Divine Avatar of the modern era." 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." Meher Baba - Adi Da Comments on The Wayfares - The Wayfarers, by William Donkin "This book is a unique document about a type of apparently psychotic individual (called a "mast")" Gandhi - Seven Sins 1. Wealth without work.... Upasni Maharaj's last meeting with Meher Baba - with pictures Friday, October 17, 1941 was a significant day in spiritual history. Upasni Maharaj and Meher Baba met in a secluded hut at Dahigaon Meher Baba and a Sadhu "A WANDERING SANYASI, who was a recluse and an ascetic, once showed up at Meherabad during this period. He had heard of Meher Baba and wanted the Master's darshan. Upasani Baba Maharaj - 1870 - 1941 "Sai Baba moulded Upasani Mahraj into His own likeness and once told him, "You must plant trees that will live for many centuries - from which people will derive benefit," Meher Baba - God to Man and Man to God "God-realization is different from all other states of consciousness because they are experienced through the medium of the individual mind, whereas God-consciousness is not dependent upon the individual mind." Upasani Baba's Prophetic Announcement - 1939 Change in Dharma is the specified work of an Avatara and Lord Shri Krishna has emphatically declared that He would incarnate himself if and when Dharma is in chaos and needs reform. Jesus and The Law of Sacrafice - 1982 ...great teachers communicated...the notion of this law of sacrifice ...Jesus... was the sacrifice of self, the sacrifice of one's being in the form of love and sacrificial acts toward others Ajna Chakra - by Swami Nityabodhananda a disciple of Swami Satyananda Saraswati Chogyam Trungpa's Oxherding Pictures - Garuda (1971) The Search for the Bull - The inspiration for this first step, which is searching for the bull, is feeling that things are not wholesome, something is lacking. That feeling of loss produces pain. You are looking for whatever it is that will make the situation right. You discover that ego's attempt to create an ideal environment is unsatisfactory. Killing the Tiger - The Trial of Manhood and Womanhood Shri Yogeshwarananda - How he met his Guru "On his arrival at the cave he saw a lustrous figure sitting in a lotus pose and meditating. He had spread some earth on two logs of wood and covered it with the bark of a tree, and was sitting on that seat. His pose was quiet and absolutely motionless" Heart Center - The Bliss Sheath Science of Soul - A practical exposition of ancient method of visualisation of Soul (Atma Vijnana), Swami Vyas Dev Ji Lankavatara Sutra - a principle text of Mahayana Buddhism The Doctrine of Mind-Only - The Conception of No-Birth - The Triple body of the Buddha -The Tathagata Three Stations of the Heart - Adi Da describes as the three stations of the heart "It Is Basically Made Of Three Parts, Indicated By The Left Side, The Middle Station, and The Right Side." Ramana Maharshi - Beezone Index on Him Items on or about Ramana Maharshi on Beezone Science of Soul - Shri Yogeshwarananda - The Introduction "How is Jivatman, the individual soul which is concealed by the combination of three bodies, to be realised...." that is the subject of this book. Ramana Maharshi - The Teaching and Realization - Adi Da Samraj "Ramana Maharshi was a principal modern example of a Great Sage (or a true Realizer of the Inherent Samadhi of Consciousness Itself) within the (originally) Upanishadic tradition of Advaita Vedanta" Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche The Chronicles of CTR is a growing online community with a common passion: the life and teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. High History of Buddhism - Rick Fields - Soma and Buddhism "..As Hajicek-Dobberstein says, "Some contemporary non orthodox Buddhist 'alchemists' find precedents in Mahasiddhas Nagaijuna and Aryadeva, who agreed, We need to eat the alchemical medicine. . . Orthodox scholars may object but they can no longer 'Just say No." Maitri - Marvin Casper 1975 "Maitri can be translated as 'love'. It means a warm, friendly attitude. In making friends with someone, it means accepting their neurosis as well as their sanity." Bihar School of Yoga Magazine Archive's - The magazine of the Bihar School of Yoga = Great resource on Yoga Mandukya Upanishad - shortest of the major Upanishads "The restless mind cannot think of the transcendental Reality without the help of a concrete symbol. Thinking is possible only through symbols." Shirdi Sai Baba - Leelas of Sai Baba of Shirdi Transcending Madness The Six States of Bardo Chogyam Trungpa Ma Devaki - Devotee of Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar "I can tell you this about Devaki she has always been a rare devotee.." Osel Tenzin - The Vajra Regent "The Vajra Regent Ösel Tendzin was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1943..." Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche - "why the outbreath....." "My first recollection of the Vidyadhara was when he gave..." Margaret Sanger - Meeting Ramana Marharshi - 1930's "When I came into the Maharshi's presence it was as though electricity had passed through my body I felt when I bowed I would be calmed, yet when I looked into those eyes, he was like a flame " Paul Brunton - The Maharshi and His Message You have been in a spiritual trance for nearly two hours, he informs me. His face, seamed with years and lined with old cares, breaks into smiles as though he rejoices in my own happiness". Bodhisattva - Trungpa and Adi Da's Comments From Adi Da and Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche on the nature of the Bodhisattva. Mahayanavimsaka of Nagarjuna - Adoration to the The Three Treasures The Soul's Journey - A description of the Holy Path of the Creation The Ashtavakra Gita or the Song of Ashtavakra, - also known as The Song of the Eightfold Cripple, the Ashtavakra Gita or the Ashtavakra Samhita scripture which documents a dialogue between the Perfect Master Ashtavakra and Janaka, the King of Mithila. The Message of the Practice Lineage - 1975 talk by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche on 'Line of the Trungpas' - Adi Da's Comments Published in The Vajradhatu Sun - 1990.. Yoga Nidra- Adi Da - 1999 Bodhisvatta Vow - c. 800 C.E. - Kishitigarbha Vow Sutra The Way of Divine Communion and Traditional Yoga - Vision Mound Magazine, 1977 the Way of Divine Communion...duplicates the eightfold ("ashtanga") process of yoga described by Patanjal - except that "samadhi," or the ultimate Unity, is the foundation and core of the practice rather than its result The Character of the Liberated Man - The Yoga-Vasistha - "Qualities, characteristics and behaviors of a Liberated Man (or Woman)" Krishnamurti - On The Teaching of J. Krishnamurti - Bubba Free John - The Dawn Horse Magazine - 1975 Adoration to the Three Treasure and The Seven Stages of Life - Nagarjuna and Adi Da Shakti - Adi Da's relationship and Revelation in relation to the feminine principle Why Are There So Many Masters? - Adi Da 1995 - Pranamayakosha, the etheric body and the first siddhi You Will Not Discover Wisdom Watching Other Swami Prakashananda "A vessel of happiness...a beautiful being who breathed the spiritual force in such a way that it saturated his entire body." - Adi Da Samraj Traditional Approaches to Spiritual Preparation - Carolyn Lee Bliss Sheath - From Science of Soul "We have already described the physical form and size of the heart in an earlier chapter. Here we have to show how the lord of the five sheaths, Jivatman, the individual soul, abides in the Bliss Sheath situated in the space of the heart, the reservoir of blood" Transcending Madness - Chogyam Trungpa "There seems to be quite a misconception as to the idea of bardo, which is that it is purely connected with the death and after-death experience. But the experience of the six bardos is not concerned with the future alone; it also concerns the present moment. Every step of experience, every step of life, is bardo experience." Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche - Quotes from Billiant Moon Forward Full Alphabetically listed articles on Beezone "you must understand that the conventions of the traditions, apart from their most radical conception, are extensions of egoity, or the self-contraction of Narcissus. This is not to say that there is nothing whatsoever valuable about them in some ordinary sense. Traditional teachings may very well represent a more positive human conception than the usual street-level mentality, but, from the point of view of Truth or ultimate Realization or true Happiness or the very Realization that the traditions all hope to attain, the occupations of the stages are fruitless" This Way Is Not a Way of Conductivity, nor a Spirit Religion, nor a Furth or Fifth Stage Practice     Beezone Articles ------ Adi Da Articles ------ Tradition Articles ------ Adi Da Books Online------ Adi Da Audio Online------ Intro------ About------ News----- Contact------ Home Friends of Adidam Forum Visit the Beezone on Facebook   "The perfect among the sages is identical with Me. There is absolutely no difference between us" Tripura Rahasya, Chap XX, 128-133 All copyright materials are used under authority of the Fair Use statute. (United State Code, Title 17) (Fair Use)