October 2009

Taboo against the Superior Man - Love of the Armed Form
(The) superior Man is present in this world only in the case of the rare individual, rather than in the form of the human world as a whole. And such an uncommon individual is regarded suspiciously by all.

The Place Where Sadhana Begins - unpublished - You may want to forestall this observation..."

Transcend Meaning - "Some people have a better experience than others in the universe of meanings in childhood, and they tend to be more effective adults—not Enlightened, but more effective and happy in the ordinary sense."

The Heart is the Hole in the Donut - 1976 - How did I get involved in this anyway...".

Thursday, October 16, 2009

"Do you all know what an immense burden it is to carry on an existence from day to day. There's something about it this promising, it implies, waking up and being somebody implies a destiny of some sort that has pleasure associated with it. The fulfillment of an idea has a pleasure associated with it. And that's all that a born existence is. You happen to feel identified with this body, and psyche and so forth. And it carries with it the implication of pleasures, consolations, enjoyments, fulfillment's. And that is what binds you to it. But you don't consider the inherent suffering also which appears one-to-one, face-to-face with all of the consolations of the same birth. Hum? When you begin to become aware of the entire field of possibility, and experience of your born existence. That's when you begin to realize the inherent suffering of birth. Of mere existence in form. Until that time you begin to, you think in base terms of your god-created life, or you know, your universe, mother-nature created life, however you describe it. You think of it in essentially positive terms, against odds. But when you truly see the nature of your life. What your experience is, in any moment. Then you begin to be released from your attachment to the fulfillment of existence. And it's then that you may begin to do sadhana."

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The Heart Is the Hole in the Donut

June 23, 1976 - A Talk, by Bubba Free John (Adi Da Samraj)

The Mood of the Heart - 1971 - unpublished notes.zone's Daily Readin

Monday, October 19, 2009

The Mood of the Heart

"I do not call men or women to my form, for I am not present as any form or power. There is no name or light that is my form or the way to me. Whether these be found within or without. I call men to understanding and even if thousands surround the body through which you hear this, only those who understand have come to me. Therefore, understand, which is to comprehend the source, logic and effect of all your paths. Understand and thus be come involved in the utter bliss that I am, even that which stands as the consciousness of your life.

Holy sound is the silent vibrance or potency of the Heart. The real light or force of all forms, upon which all forms appear is the consciousness that is the Heart. This is the Truth. One who understands is the Heart. He knows that which cannot be spoken or heard, that which is bliss without name or form.

The Heart is the master of the outer and the inner, the high and the low, the empty and the full. Therefore, it does not require the abandonment of anything, no exclusive form of life, neither spiritual life not any form of embodiment or appearance, but it requires or enforces the real consciousness of whatever appears. The Heart is utterly free of all striving, all exclusive directions, all motives, all demands. It uses all that appears according to its free and creative intelligence, yet is never acts on anything outside itself since everything is contained within it. Therefore, it is unmoved and only blissful as unqualified conscious existence. This is the mood of the Heart and the secret life of the man or woman of understanding."

Unpublished, 1971

Franklin Jones - Adi Da Samraj

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Water and Narcissus

Hard Earth and Stone at my Foot

"I resist and take flight from the material and life condition. The crux of the spiritual life for me now is to see and embrace this mode of reality. The material realm is relentless in its lawfulness. It is all cause and effect. I am always seeking a magic by which to overcome the laws of physics. But the matter forms are there and hard, dragging me into the necessary acceptance of their reality. To now I have tended to anxiety, impatience, self-pity and despair, striving after forms of immunity and passivity and superiority. I have opposed the law and thus failed to transcend and master it. Thus also I oppose the creative, endlessly active life forms. The intrusion of life around me make my passive artifice impossible. But when I accept these forms and their laws as necessary reality, then I am peaceful. The effort of work required of me to live and create and remain in relationship is a labor I am grateful to maintain. And the noise and process that shatters the aesthetic heaven of my household is acceptable, being a reasonable expression of life in the condition of material existence. Thus, being at one with these laws, I am firm and untroubled. I master and transcend each material problem, and I become alive and in motion, exceeding the barriers of aesthetic space, in a mood with all creative life. Thus the hard earth and stone at my foot and had teach me. And thus the children teach me. It is unreasonable to seek peace, for this aesthetic pursuit in fact seeks to undermine and thward the foundations of life and materiality. It is necessary to be already peaceful, one with the law, and thus to create in the world of this law."

Water and Narcissus, 1969 - unpublished

Franklin Jones (Adi Da Samraj)

Note:

The period Adi Da (Franklin Jones) was writing the book Water and Narcissus was from 1967 to early 1970. He completed it while living in New York.

Tightness and Doubt - 1969 - Water and Narcissus

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