Adi Da (Bubba Free John) - 1977   "Because of today's fast communication, because there are more and more books about spirituality and more and more people traveling and talking about spiritual matters, it is easy to imagine that some great spiritual event is occurring. But people are just considering spiritual ideas. Most people who are involved with so-called spirituality are involved in superficial ways, as they would be with conventional church beliefs. What people describe as the great spiritual age today is just a turning toward subjective matters and subjective illusions. Such a view was fostered in this country by the drug culture of the 60's, which turned people into the subjective order. But that way is just as filled with illusions as any conventional life. It is the dimension of mind just as outward obsessions are also mind. Mind is the thing that we suffer, including the ego, which is a part of mind. Therefore, turning to the subjective order is not spiritual. Certainly the so-called spiritual cultures arising in this country have some feeling for a fuller life. They represent a sympathy with an aspect of the body-being that Western life has tended to exclude. The subjective or emotional aspect of the being is being emphasized again, and so for that reason spiritual movements in this country look toward the East. But the subjective being is not the Truth any more than the active or objective being. Thus most people are just arbitrarily and superficially taking on Eastern religious customs in the name of spirituality. True spirituality is a moral and spiritual transformation. And the practice of real or spiritual life begins to make a difference when people who are living conventional lives are no longer addicted to the worldly game. Not that they become otherworldly and separate from the world entirely, but they no longer live as a manifestation of conventional consciousness and interests." more >>>   Monthly Archives October 2009 - November 2009 - December 2009 - January 2010 - February 2010      Beezone Articles ------ Adi Da Articles ------ Tradition Articles ------ Adi Da Books Online------ Adi Da Audio Online------ Intro------ About------ News----- Contact------ Home   "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)   Daily Reading Archive Library

Beezone Articles ------ Adi Da Articles ------ Tradition Articles ------ Adi Da Books Online------ Adi Da Audio Online------ Intro------ About------ News----- Contact------ Home   "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)