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Introduction
Do you ever think about
things? Do you ever wonder at all? I'm afraid to
say some people don't but I'm happy to say I do.
That wonder is why I spend my time writing,
meditating and studying about things. All kinds of
things, big things (highs) and little things
(lows). One of the 'things' I've discovered is that
when I consider any thing at all it always returns
me to the place I started from, the place of
wonder. A wonder of who is this one who is
wondering, who is this one who is asking; the
starting place of my wonder.1
Of all the wonders of the
world I've discovered the greatest one of them all
is the wonder of me. Who am I? (and who am I not)
What am I? (and what am I not) What is this place I
find myself in and how does it make any
sense.
To make this introduction
short and to the point, all of my wondering,
studying, meditating, reading, talking and
questioning started me on a journey that led me to
the one person who knows more about this 'subject'
of life (and death) then anyone else I've met, read
or listened to. And this person is Adi Da Samraj, a
guru. It all seems so foreign from my contemporary
American point of view but I can't argue with the
facts.
This website is about my
journey of understanding starting with my early
quest into psychology, philosophy and history and
then leading me Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and
Buddhism, meditation and eventually to Adi
Da.
Of course the journey still
remains2, Adi Da is not an answer. He
may be a question to some, but he is certainly no
answer3. My journey is the same as
yours, ongoing.
The Beezone is an ongoing
consideration and study of The Great Wonder of
Wonders, you and me and the state of the world we
live in today4. I think this is an
important considering the state of things today,
not just for me but for you too.
Blessings,
Ed Reither
Fairfax, CA
August 2009
1. My wonder,
experience and knowledge ALWAYS implied and
exploited my sense of self. I noticed any and all
knowledge and experience always turned or attached
itself to the sense of 'me' - ego. (see
'The
Restoration of
Laugher')
2.
"you
cannot take heaven by storm. There is no method...
that is equivelant to Enlightenment.
Self-Observation, self-knowing, self-transcendence
is a lifelong exercise. it never comes to an end.
It is always going on, always developing, there's
nothing instant about it."
Adi Da - 1982
"You still have not gotten the point. You do not
get that point once and for all - it must be gotten
moment by moment. It is a continuous
"consideration". It does not end. It is not a
merely intellectual matter, wherein you grasp
something in a moment and after that you are okay
because you grasped it. The practice of the Way of
the Heart is constant "consideration" until there
is Most Perfect transcendence of the
self-contraction."
1993
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Religious
Realism
3. There
are no answers
4.
'The
times' -
Beezone
"You
need not necessarily make everybody My devotee,
but try to get people to at least invest
themselves
in the greatest aspirations of the tradition they
do embrace."
Adi
Da Samraj - 1993
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