A Beezone enquiry What is Recognition? "Enlightenment or the spiritual process is the recognition of phenomena or the phenomenal energies that control and manipulate attention." Recognition Is the Key to Enlightenment - Easy Death     Is the title and admonition Recognition of Me Is Liberation in Adi Da's new book recently published by the Dawn Horse Press is a simple and straight-forward as is sounds? Is it true that all one has to do is to Recognize or 'turn to Adi Da' and liberation will be given? Of course not. But to often people think that it is that simple. In fact is a moment to moment great demand. It is not an idealist admonition of "follow this and you'll be given the great gift". It is a call, a call which must be fufuilled in time and by degrees. The following may help understand what Adi Da refers to as Recognition in the title of his latest book, Recognition of Me Is Liberation.   First there must be the consideration of my Argument, beginning to know the self-contraction, until true hearing or real self-understanding develops. This understanding, or the process of observing, re-cognizing, and inherently transcending the self-contraction then becomes the basis of a continuous practice and consideration in the midst of daily life. Recognition - Re-cognition - Enquiry   Is   Recognition is the principle of our play. You must recognize me in the form of your Condition, the Condition of all this arising, the real Condition of it, the Condition of conditions, the Condition of the body, the mind, the self-sense, the very current of the being, and be rested in It constantly. You find yourself rested beyond the mind, resting prior to the mind. You fall into the Heart beyond the mind Re-polarization of the being toe to crown rather than crown to toe. The process of non-verbal re-cognition, "knowing again", of the self-contraction My devotee suddenly awakens from the cramp of heart-seclusion, and expands to see me. Sudden and spontaneous acceptance and Divine Recognition of all conditional forms and events, in and as The Self-Radiant Love-Bliss Of Inherent Being. Recognition is movement beyond the subtler contractions that are mind and life-force. Then contraction has no force and no implication whatsoever and identity into a perfect disposition that is infinite. It is Reality   Is Not   A method of seeking, but there are stages. Can not be done from the 'self-contraction' In the later stages even the activity of re-cognition is dissolved and resolved, an event need not take place in any instant in order to clarify or release one from the things that are arising. Where seeking is understood, there is the re-cognition of a separation. And when that separation is observed the person sees that what he is suffering is not something happening to him, but it is his own action. Recognition is non-strategic. It is not associated with strategic effort to exclude or include any conditional form or event. In Recognition the Divine Domain does not have any objective features, but it is entirely and only the inherently perfect self-condition itself. The self-contraction is itself the very action whereby objectivity, or Separation, and otherness, and "difference", is evoked, and generated, and established, and experienced, and known. It is not idealism Part II A Beezone enquiry What is Recognition? From the table above one it is clear that Recognition of Me is tantamount to Realization for the devotee. Is this true? Do those who practice devotional exercises or are studying the teaching realized? Adi Da has always criticized religious and devotional approaches to him that do not show signs of hearing or self-understanding. "...yes, there is devotion but the limitations in what you have been describing to Me tonight are all about a fundamental lack of sensitivity to the great Unity and Source of your existence". "...when you speak to Me, you talk as people in two worlds. On the one hand, the world of materialism, separateness, egoic "self-possession", the body-mind on its own terms is one side of your communication to Me, and your adaptations show it. But also you have a foot in the world of your devotion to Me, and you describe that openness, that more participatory disposition. You are in both worlds. You have a foot in both worlds. And you are a combination of both impulses, both adaptations". "You are not exactly infidels, but you are not exactly great Yogis, either. You are a mixture of both. You are beginners. Because you are beginners, you communicate all kinds of weaknesses relative to the greater adaptation, the greater Admonition, the greater practice". "You like communicating yourself rather idealistically, as if you are truly My devotee and everything about you is straight. Yet just examine anything in your life, your intimacy this week, whatever. Examine any of it in detail. You will see that you belong to both worlds. You are in the midst of a process of sadhana, of re-adaptation, of purification. You must appreciate this, and be humbled by the fact of it. Do not idealize yourself. Be only straightforward, communicative, confessed, and seriously practicing, and embrace the details of My Instruction to you in every occasion of life. You cannot afford to do otherwise, and you are not going to become greater in My Company or advance in this practice until you accept My Admonition in every circumstance, and seriously and strictly practice it".   Identification of the Beloved    Here is the latest (August 2010) book put out by Dawn Horse Press Go to Dawn Horse Books

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