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Real self-Understanding Is Right Nowvideo
poster: AdiDaUpClose
length: 03:47
date added: July 12, 2022
event date: April 8, 1993
language: English
views: 1295; views this month: 157; views this week: 36
This is an excerpt from track 1 of the CD, Real self-Understanding Is Right Now, available from The Dawn Horse Press.

On the CD is a seminal Discourse on self-understanding given by Adi Da on April 8, 1993. In this Discourse, Adi Da calls all those inclined to Realize True Freedom to first recognize the failure of their search — which is based on the illusion of separation. Rather than engaging the ordinary pursuit of union with all others and things from which we feel separate, Avatar Adi Da says we must find out that our inherent Condition is one of Perfect Non-separation.

ADI DA: You are doing this contraction. The stress you say you are feeling is the result of that. . . The more you feel that you yourself are doing it, the more it relaxes. . . You are, as it relaxes, directly surrendered, truly forgetting yourself, entering into the Field of Non-Separateness — which is My Very Nature, Condition, Sign, Demonstration, Transmission.
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CD  

Mit Narcyzavideo
poster: Adi Da Video Polska
speakers: James Steinberg, Jonathan Condit
length: 04:44
date added: May 14, 2020
language: Polish
views: 903; views this month: 20; views this week: 4
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Fragment filmu Świadome Światło, w którym Adi Da mówi o starożytnym greckim micie o Narcyzie i o tym, jak jest to doskonała metafora dla zilustrowania założenia odrębnego "ja" i charakterystycznego sposobu dramatyzowanej tej, z góry zakładanej separacji przez wszystkie istoty ludzkie. Aby dowiedzieć się więcej o pokazach filmu Świadome Światło wejdź na: consciouslightfilm.com.

"Mit Narcyza" ("The Myth of Narcissus") is an excerpt from the film, Conscious Light. Adi Da talks about the ancient Greek myth about Narcissus, and how it is a perfect metaphor for illustrating the assumption of a separate "I" and the characteristic way this pre-assumed separation is dramatized by all human beings. For times of screenings of Conscious Light, go to: consciouslightfilm.com. You can also purchase Conscious Light as a DVD from the Dawn Horse Press.
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DVD   Polish  

The Myth of Narcissusvideo
part 1 of Conscious Light

poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 04:44
date added: November 13, 2019
language: English
views: 1086; views this month: 15; views this week: 1
An excerpt from the award-winning film, Conscious Light, in which Adi Da speaks about the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus and how that is the perfect metaphor for the assumption of a separate self, and the underlying activity of this separation dramatized by all human beings.

The True Food that Sustains Usvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 04:15
date added: October 3, 2019
event date: 1977
language: English
views: 1079; views this month: 17; views this week: 4
There is a “logic” or “philosophy” by which human beings convince themselves they are unloved and separated from the Source of existence. Identifying with the food-body and its inevitable mortality, people are anxious and lose the connection with True Sustenance. The principle of true human existence and happiness is discovery and recognition of the inherent state of non-separation, which is native and perfectly sustaining to all life.

Samadhi at Banyan Bayvideo
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld
speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld
length: 05:52
date added: October 15, 2017
language: English
views: 2864; views this month: 12; views this week: 2
Gerald Sheinfeld, describing an occasion of Darshan of Adi Da at Banyan Bay, on Naitauba, Fiji, in February, 2005: "Just by Adi Da's Free Presence all sense of separation fell away. The awareness was prior to the act of ego-'I'. The feeling had no separate self-sense to it, it was simply Reality. The Love-Bliss natural state of perfectly free Conscious Being."

Gerald tells many more stories of his life of more than 45 years with Adi Da in his book, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master. Some of these stories are also available in audio form on his downloadable album, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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CD   DVD  

My Work Has Always Been Profoundly Urgentvideo
poster: sourcetemplebrazil
length: 14:18
date added: September 14, 2017
language: English
views: 3401; views this month: 10; views this week: 2
In this passionate talk, Adi Da speaks to the crisis mankind is in and the urgency for true spiritual practice and the disposition that undermines mankind's assumption of separation.

Adi Da describes the extreme urgency of His Communication and Offering — for those who are in absolute need of Realization of That which is Perfectly Sufficient: Adi Da's Divine State. He points out that most human beings are distracted, and not aware of how profoundly they need what He is offering. Taking up the "right life" disciplines serves the growth that brings the devotee to that point of (undistracted, dis-illusioned) awareness of (and urgency and profound seriousness regarding) our real situation.

Accompanied by a slideshow of photos of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
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slideshow  

The True Food that Sustains Usvideo
part 1 of Adi Da Quotes

poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 04:18
date added: June 14, 2017
language: English
views: 3627; views this month: 25; views this week: 3
An audio excerpt from Adi Da Samraj's early talk, "Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity", accompanied by photos of Adi Da from a more recent Avataric Discourse.

We experience "independent" existence as a kind of madness, a seeming separation from food (both because of the cutting of the umbilical cord and as a feeling of separation from our ultimate source of sustenance, the Very Divine). We must instead be like the eating gorilla. . .

Adi Da: "The eating gorilla finds a cabbage in the jungle, sits down like a slob and munches away at the cabbage, and is completely benign, completely peaceful. . . . Therefore, the eating gorilla is the image of the true man, the true woman. He demonstrates the principle of true politics, of real human existence, in which we are always presently connected to the Food Source in Truth, and are always presuming connection, relationship, 'I love you.' "

"Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity" is available as a CD here. A transcript is also available online and as a chapter in the book, The Yoga Of Right Diet.
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searchless diet  

You Don't Love Mevideo
part 1 of The Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 08:47
date added: March 25, 2017
language: English
views: 4060; views this month: 62; views this week: 47
An audio excerpt from Adi Da Samraj's early talk, "Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity", accompanied by more recent photos of Adi Da.

Adi Da: "When we look out into the universe we feel insulted, rejected, unloved. And so we make philosophy out of our apparent independence. Fundamentally, it is not our experiences in particular relationships that tell us we are not loved. Some people do not love us, surely, but nevertheless we are simply, always, and already philosophically disposed to believe that we are not loved. It is our interpretation of existence, not on the basis of any relational experience we have had with other human beings, but on the basis of our apparent independence itself. Our sense of independent bodily existence means separation to us, whereas, you see, it is really only the sense of independent bodily existence. When you become strong — if you ever can become truly strong — autonomous, able to take a deep breath, then you stop interpreting the universe as a form of rejection, as a great parent from whose company you have been expelled, under whose domination you live, who has rejected you and does not love you. Everyone is simply born into the conventional condition of independence and everyone interprets that condition as rejection, as 'you don't love me.' "

"Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity" is available as a CD here. A transcript is also available online and as a chapter in the book, The Yoga Of Right Diet.

The True Food that Sustains Usvideo
part 2 of The Searchless Raw Diet

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 09:49
date added: March 19, 2017
language: English
views: 4700; views this month: 49; views this week: 6
An audio excerpt from Adi Da Samraj's early talk, "Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity", accompanied by photos of Adi Da from a more recent Avataric Discourse.

We experience "independent" existence as a kind of madness, a seeming separation from food (both because of the cutting of the umbilical cord and as a feeling of separation from our ultimate source of sustenance, the Very Divine). We must instead be like the eating gorilla. . .

Adi Da: "The eating gorilla finds a cabbage in the jungle, sits down like a slob and munches away at the cabbage, and is completely benign, completely peaceful. . . . Therefore, the eating gorilla is the image of the true man, the true woman. He demonstrates the principle of true politics, of real human existence, in which we are always presently connected to the Food Source in Truth, and are always presuming connection, relationship, 'I love you.' "

"Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity" is available as a CD here. A transcript is also available online and as a chapter in the book, The Yoga Of Right Diet.
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searchless diet  

Introduction To The Zero Point Retreatvideo
part 1 of The Zero Point Retreat

poster: FIAT LUX
length: 02:30
date added: March 1, 2017
event date: April 28, 2017
language: English
views: 4231; views this month: 27; views this week: 3
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In this video, longtime devotee and Adidam educator, Carolyn Lee, introduces "The Zero Point", a retreat taking place at the European Danda, April 28 - 30, 2017.

Read or watch the daily news these days and you will find it filled with identity politics and the fear and anxiety that such politics engenders. Identity politics is a major threat to the world. In this retreat, we explore the root of identity politics: the presumption of difference and separateness. We also study and consider Adi Da's Wisdom on understanding, un-learning, and transcending the illusion of separateness and the act of separation, and Realizing Prior Unity, Non-Separateness, and unlimited relatedness to everything and everyone.

The "Zero Point" is the place where we can drop all the limited and superficial points of view, and find the profound depth of Reality Itself. This has the potential for initiating a Reality-informed and Reality-transformed personal process and a collective activism in the contemporary world.

For more information about the retreat, write info@adidam.org.
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peace  

The Bright Reality Beyond the God Ideavideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 05:27
date added: January 24, 2017
language: English
views: 4374; views this month: 25; views this week: 2
In this excerpt from an Avataric Discourse, Adi Da gives a Radical and profound description of the true nature of the Divine Reality, stating that the Divine is the substance of all that arises, not the "cause" of anything, Adi Da goes on to describe how it is our own separation from that which is the very Divine, that causes the assumption of separation (and all our suffering).

This talk excerpt is followed by a clip of Darshan of Adi Da (at 4:27).
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Darshan   Avataric Discourse  

The Vision of Loveaudio
poster: Gerald Sheinfeld
speaker: Gerald Sheinfeld
length: 05:41
date added: August 2, 2016
language: English
listens: 5749; listens this month: 16; listens this week: 7
On his new downloadable album, At the Feet of the Spiritual Master, devotee Gerald Sheinfeld tells leelas — true stories of his life of over 45 years with Avatar Adi Da Samraj. These stories begin before the first ashram opened in 1972. They provide details of how Avatar Adi Da awakened ordinary people into devotees of Real God. These stories are based on the awakened recognition of the prior Unity of Divine Reality. They are full of lessons of self-understanding and brightening heart-joy in finding the truth about God, the truth about life and death. The truth of prior Happiness which is the true Condition of all, prior to the ego-I act of separation.

Gerald has been a devotee of Adi Da since the beginning of Adi Da's work with devotees. He accompanied Adi Da on His 1973 trip to India, and has participated in countless sacred occasions and events in the company of Adi Da in the intervening years — so he has many stories to tell!

Some of those stories are on this downloadable album. This audio excerpt is track 8, "The Vision Of Love", on Gerald's downloadable album.

Gerald tells many more stories of his life of more than 45 years with Adi Da in his book,At the Feet of the Spiritual Master.
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CD   DVD  

The Avon Lady, excerpt 1audio
part 1 of The Divine Siddha-Method Audio Series

poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine
length: 05:35
date added: January 30, 2014
event date: June 20, 1972
language: English
listens: 8068; listens this month: 73; listens this week: 15
"The Avon Lady" is a classic talk given by Avatar Adi Da in the early years of His Teaching-Work. In this humorous and penetrating discourse, Avatar Adi Da offers basic instruction regarding the nature of seeking and the Awakening Function of the True Guru.

In this audio excerpt entitled “There Is Already No Dilemma”, Avatar Adi Da describes the human egoic drama of separation, suffering, and seeking. All pleasures, distractions, and experiences reinforce that same drama of the apparently separate self. But the True Guru does not support the search, does not promise any fulfillment of that search. That is the uniqueness and the invaluable quality of the True Guru. Adi Da compares the True Guru to an unusual elevator – where one steps in, expecting to go up (toward Spiritual attainment or some other fulfillment), but instead the bottom drops out. This is why the search begins to fall apart once there is recognition of the True Guru. Then the real Spiritual process can begin.
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CD  

The Ultimate Outshining of Deathaudio
poster: AdidamRevelationMagazine
length: 07:36
date added: November 23, 2013
event date: October 3, 2004
language: English
listens: 3119; listens this month: 15; listens this week: 4
In this excerpt from the CD, The Ultimate Outshining of Death, Adi Da communicates, with great passion and compassion, the only way to be truly Free of the sorrow from the loss of a loved one.

Adi Da: "Loss, or separation — apparent separation through death or any other life-happening — is not only possible, it is inevitable. And there is nothing amusing about it. It is so. It is not possible to be consoled about it. But it is possible to be Free, utterly Free — only by Realizing That Which Is Inherently Free."
tags:
death   CD   Avataric Discourse  

You are More Than Just the Body and Mindvideo
part 1 of You Are The Question You Ask

poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 07:42
date added: November 4, 2012
event date: August 30, 2004
language: English
views: 5060; views this month: 14; views this week: 3
A video excerpt from part 6 ("The Glasses of Consciousness") of the DVD, You Are The Question You Ask, which was drawn from Adi Da's Avataric Discourse of August 30, 2004.

Adi Da talks about how human beings presume that they are just a body and a mind, and this creates the mistaken sense of separation from others and the Divine.

special terminology: self-contraction
tags:
Avataric Discourse  
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