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Open Eyes* is the quarterly Asia-Pacific Newsletter of Adidam,
produced in New Zealand. You can read and download current and past
issues below. To subscribe to our newsletter, email
Christine.
*Adi Da uses the phrase, "Open Eyes", for the Realization
of the seventh stage
of life, or Most Perfect Divine Enlightenment. The phrase graphically
describes the non-exclusive, non-inward, Prior State of the Divine
Self-Realizer, Who is Identified Non-conditionally with the Divine
Self-Reality, while also allowing whatever arises to appear in the
Divine Consciousness.
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Volume 23/3: Eternal
Blessing Transmission
Adi Da: I have Already Connected with every one.
I Am Already Coincident with every one. . .
I Am Doing the Same Work now That I Will Do forever—even when
I am no longer physically Embodied here.
My Work Is at the “Root”—not at the periphery. |
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Volume
23/2: Growing To Beyond
Adi Da: "I want to transform people's participation in.
. . Reality (Itself, and altogether) -- and help bring them
to a new way of life, out of the 'dark' period in which humankind
is presently immersed."
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Volume 23/1: Adi Da Samraj
in New Zealand
This issue commemorates the 30th anniversary of Avatar Adi Da
Samraj's only visit to New Zealand, from March 30 to April 7,
1988. In a most generous offering, Adi Da answered questions
on two extended occasions that were open to "lay members"
who were not yet formally practicing the Reality-Way of Adidam.
See some of these talks on the DVD, The
Fundamental Purpose of Existence. |
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Volume
22/4: The Avatar of What Is
Adi Da: "I want to transform people's participation in.
. . Reality (Itself, and altogether) -- and help bring them
to a new way of life, out of the 'dark' period in which humankind
is presently immersed.
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Volume 22/3: The One
Source-Field
Adi Da: "Nothing is ever destroyed. Appearances pass through
forms of transformation, but the Source-Condition — Which Is
The Case for all appearances to begin with — Persists." |
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Volume
22/2: No Search Is Necessary
Adi Da: "You cannot achieve union with something or someone
you are separating yourself from. And, if the act of separation
is dropped, there is no separation— only the unlimited awareness
of Non-separateness, inherently. This is the disposition in
which to live."
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Volume 22/1: The Awakening
Sunlight
Adi Da: "When you become less concerned with your particular
search, your inwardness, your adventure, then you have simply
become more sensitive to your Real Condition. You have felt
the sunlight falling on your sleeping eyes. When your eyes have
opened in the morning light, everything will be obvious to you—and
you will know that you have never slept, that you have never
dreamed, that you have never been limited to any thing that
has appeared." |
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Volume
21/4: Wherever Your Attention Goes Is Your Destiny
Adi Da: "Notice anything you enjoy — anything whatsoever.
Initially, you enjoy it. Then, over time, repeating the enjoyment,
trying to get the pleasure out of it, the pleasure becomes
greatly reduced. What you are left with is the pattern reinforcing
itself, demanding repetition. . . "
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Volume
21/2: Be the Open Hand
Adi Da: "Love is the action in which ego and all its
reactions are dissolved, since all such things are only contraction.
. . When Love is altogether True, when Its Radiance Shines
so hard it opens up the hand, then there is Only Real God
— and Real God Is Love."
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Volume 21/1: The Everybody
Force
Adi Da: "Love is the action in which ego and all its reactions
are dissolved, since all such things are only contraction. .
. When Love is altogether True, when Its Radiance Shines so
hard it opens up the hand, then there is Only Real God —
and Real God Is Love." |
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Volume
20/4: Restore the Green Domain
A raw, dominantly green diet is not simply good for your health.
That raw, green diet is lawful. To adhere to the raw, dominantly
green diet is right life in the greatest sense of lawful participation
in the Earth-world and the universe.
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Volume 20/3: Be released
of everything
The Way in My Company is to Find Real God from the beginning
and let the entire process manifest on that basis.
Be resolved in Real God.
Be released in Real God.
Be changed by the Power of Real God. |
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Volume
20/2: Remember the One in Whom you are arising — until you
are only Joy
There is Truth — but you have to deal with death. If
it does not touch death, then it has nothing to do with Truth.
Truth has to deal with death now — because “now” is
a potential moment of death. A consoling belief that requires
death to be “some other time” is not good enough religion.
Religion must apply in the moment, and it must deal with death,
must be sufficient to be greater than death — far greater.
It must be Light, rather than darkness — and it must
be so now.
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Volume 20/1: Conscious
Light Is What Is
"Reality Itself,
or Truth Itself,
or Real (Acausal) God is not 'within' you.
Reality Itself,
or Truth Itself,
or Real (Acausal) God
Is Consciousness Itself,
Which Is Always Already The Case.
There is no 'you' about it." |
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Volume
19/4: Look for something Greater
"Who has seen the madness of this 'world'? Who is disenchanted
enough with that madness to want to find a Spiritual Master?
For whom is this 'world' so much of a dead-end that it cannot
be accepted on its own terms, or for its own sake? Where is
someone for whom there must be a greater Reality— someone
who will be utterly devoted to finding It?"
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Volume
19/2: Your Heart Is What I Speak To
"Always, spontaneously, the Heart moves into relationship.
It Moves through the structures of conscious awareness. It
Flows through. It Breaks Down the obstructions. The Heart
Itself Is Always Already Love-Bliss-Full and Happy."
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Volume 19/1: The Dog
In My House
"I also Teach the walls, the trees, the dogs. It is not that
I Give a verbal Teaching to them. My Communication to them is
non-verbal. Because It Is Reality Itself, My Divine Avataric
Teaching- Revelation and My Divine Avataric Transcendental Spiritual
Self-Transmission are usable and Realizable by all beings, and
even by every 'thing'. . . The dog in My House can do it. So
can you."
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- Volume 18/4: I Am Eternally
Present
"I will be here forever, every 'where' forever—absolutely. I cannot
leave. The Divine Domain is not some 'where' to go to. The Divine
Domain Is Eternal I Am Eternal, Merely Present. Transcend yourself
in place, in My Perpetual Company, Most Intimate with you."
- Volume 18/3: Are You The
One Who Is Living You Now?
"What is your conclusion about Reality, your actual present-time
presumption about Reality? Do you presume Reality Is Divine—or
not? This question is important, because your conclusion about
Reality is operative in every dimension of your life."
- Volume 18/2: There Is Only
Consciousness Itself
"The Inherent Nature (or Self- Evident Condition) of existence—and,
therefore, of all human beings—Is Consciousness Itself."
- Volume 18/1: The Lesson
of Life
"Wisdom begins when one is made truly serious by this Lesson of
life: The achievement of Happiness is always minimal, temporary,
and ultimately unattainable. You cannot become Happy. You can
only be Happy."
- Volume 17/4: The Root of
Healing
"The Process Of “Radical” Healing Always Involves Three Phases—First,
The Purification Of Toxicity, Then The Re-Balancing Of the body-mind-complex
(and The Restoration Of psycho-physical Equanimity), and, Finally,
The Regeneration Of nerve-force (or Natural Life-Energy) and vital
chemistry."
- Volume 17/3: Dissolve in
My Current of Love-Bliss
"Commune with Me in whole-bodily-recognition-responsive Ecstasy.
Turn to Me whole bodily— Beyond all 'experience' and every thought.
Let Me “Live” you. Dissolve in My Divine Transcendental
Spiritual Current of Love-Bliss."
- Volume 17/2: Everything
Transmits
"Everything transmits. The stones transmit, the sky transmits,
the TV transmits. Since everything and everyone transmits states
of existence – since life itself, or existence itself, is participation
in transmissions of all kinds – the best thing you can do is to
associate with the greatest possible Transmission. Since everything
is transmission, spend time in the Company of the One Who spontaneously
Transmits That Which Is Inherently Perfect and Ultimate. This
is the Great Rule, the Great Law, the Ultimate Principle of the
Great Tradition of humankind."
- Volume 17/1: Why Are Spiritual
Masters Necessary?
"The Spiritual Master is a Transparent Reminder of the Divine
Reality, a Guide to the ecstatic Realization of the One Reality
in Which all conditions arise and change and pass away. The Spiritual
Master is not to be made into the merely 'objectified' idol of
a cult, as if the Divine Being were exclusively contained in the
'objective' person and 'subjective' beliefs of a particular sect.
Rather, right relationship to the Spiritual Master takes the form
of free devotional response to the Spiritual Master’s Radiant
State."
- Volume 16/3: Real God Is
Not a Parent Figure
"It is simply not true to the facts of existence altogether that
there is a Great Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent Being making
everything happen—in charge of everything happening, and making
things turn out well for those who acknowledge That One and obey
certain moral principles. It is simply not so. It is not true
that there is such a Parental Deity controlling history, controlling
even all events, and working out a great 'success-plan' for humanity."
- Volume 16/2: The Secrets
of How To Change
"True and sustainable change and positive, mature human adaptation
are not made on the basis of any 'self'-conscious reaction-resistance
to old, degenerative, and immature habits. True and positive change
is not a matter of not doing something. True and positive change
is always a matter of doing something else— something that is
inherently right, free, pure and purifying, balanced and re-balancing,
truly regenerative, and (altogether) a matter of functional equanimity."
- Volume 16/1: Understanding
"Through the movement that is desire, people are constantly seeking
to create a connection, a flow of life-force, between the self-contracted
identity and everything from which it has differentiated itself.
The usual philosophy, religion, Yoga, Spirituality—all your strategies
(even your simple psychological strategies, your lifestyles) have
this same basic form, this same basic purpose. They are all attempts
to restore the flow of life-energy between this contracted, separated
one and everything from which it is differentiating itself. Thus,
all ordinary activity is founded in this dilemma, this self-created
contraction."
- Volume 15/4: Be Drawn into
Happiness
"Conditions or 'experiences' themselves do not determine (or 'define')
you. The Divine does. If you live in the Divine, any event, any
apparent condition, ceases to condition your quality and your
humor and make it something less. So one who has become Free in
the Divine is Truly Free. Such a one no longer has concerns about
whether he or she will appear or not appear, in what shape he
or she will appear, or anything like that. Such a one is Happy,
and the Divine is Sufficient for that individual. That is the
Condition to be in."
- Volume 15/3: True Humor
"Throughout my life, I have been moved to Communicate (or to Reveal,
to Transmit, and to Awaken) the fundamental Source and Substance
and Condition of True Humor to others. . . True Humor has only
one living Form (and one ultimately, or inherently perfect, Form),
Which is Real God, Perfect Truth, or Reality Itself."
- Volume 15/2: The True Condition
of Existence
"The heart has a question. The heart must be Satisfied. Without
that Satisfaction – Which is necessarily Spiritual in nature –
there is no Real Happiness."
- Volume 15/1: Love Is the
Practice
"Love is the principle of functioning. It is the principle of
relationship. Love is what is to be realized and expressed. You
must overcome all limits upon it. Spiritual life is many things,
but at the level of human relations, its essence is love."
- Volumes 13/1 - 14/4: missing
- Volume 12/4: Compassion
"You can suffer or you can love. You can complain or you
can surrender. You can abuse or you can bless. It is really just
that simple. And true maturity, Real-God-Realizing maturity, manifests
great compassion, great love, great help, and endures greatly."
- Volume 12/3: Not-Two Is
Peace
"People commonly presume unity to be a positive value. But
they are typically thinking of unity as something to be “worked
toward”. “Working toward” unity is not what I am talking about.
I am talking about prior unity. I am talking about people entering
into a dialogue that is based on the working-presumption of prior
unity, and non-separateness, and zeroconfrontation, and global
indivisibility, and the absolute Law of unbreakable peace – rather
than a status quo based on the ego-based presumption of separateness,
and confl ict, and competition."
- Volume 12/2: Death Is A
Living Process
"The 'secret' or Law of the death process is the same
that applies to existence during one's born lifetime: the right
relationship to the process is that of love-surrender, not recoil
or withdrawal. The death process is simply another form of participation
in the mystery and Universal Unity of existence."
- Volume 12/1: The Ancient
Walk-About Way
"If you become disenchanted with the patterning world, you
look for something Greater. If you are truly disenchanted, you
cannot be consoled by believer’s nonsense. Rather, the 'What'
you would have is Something that you cannot yet name. It must
be Something that is Inherently and Absolutely Satisfactory, Something
That is Greater than all other possibilities. Even though you
have things to do in daily life, and you continue to live and
breathe, and so forth, you are always looking for That Which Is
Ultimately and Inherently Satisfactory. And, when you find It,
you devote your life to It."
- Volume 11/4: There Are
No Separate Waters In The Sea
"If the Separate (and Separative) "I"-"other"
Presumption Is Not Added to what arises, what arises Appears Only
As It Is, or Inherently Free Of the Feeling-concept
Of Inherent Separateness (or "Difference"). . . There
are no separate waters in the sea, but every wave or motion folds
in one another on the Deep."
- Volume 11/3: The Truth
Comes Alive In You
"I am like the sunlight in the morning. I Intensify the light
of morning until you Awaken. Until the Light Awakens you, even
the Light of Consciousness Itself, you continue to dream, try
to survive within the dream, manipulate yourself within the dream,
pursue all kinds of goals, searches,— none of which Awaken you.
The ordinary means only console you and distract you within the
dream. I Myself, the One Who would Awaken you, am not a person,
not an individual within the dream. I Am your Very Consciousness.
I Am Reality Itself, the Divine Conscious Light, the True Waking
State, the True Divine Heart—Breaking Through the force of dreaming."
- Volume 11/2: When the Door
Opens
"All the usual aspirations are based on suffering and seeking….
Someone having an 'ecstatic' vision is in the same condition as
someone watching a TV commercial. Only when all of that has worn
down do you begin to see that the principle underlying all of
your seeking, your discoveries, your apparent attainments, is
suffering! That is the Truth. Then you begin to become sensitive
to your actual condition, instead of trying to do something about
it…. That is when the truly extraordinary and transformative event
occurs. Once that event begins, there is an unseriousness about
all the things that you took seriously before. All the accumulations,
all the imagery, all the books, all the symbols, cease to be your
occupation. Instead, you become occupied with the Living Truth.
And the Living Truth is Prior to all of this mentality."
- Volume 11/1: The Super-Physics
of Divine Enlightenment
"True Spiritual life is not just a change in your mind. Much
more than an 'inner awakening' or a 'good feeling' about everything
must take place. The literal physics of your entire existence
must change. The physical body and its energies must be literally
transformed… There is an unspeakably profound difference between
the condition of the usual egoic individual and the Condition
of the Divinely Enlightened individual."
- Volume 10/4: Transformation
Through Divine Help
"The humanly incarnate Spiritual Master is Divine Help to
the advantage of those in like form. When My devotee enters into
right relationship with Me, changes happen in the literal physics
of one's existence. I am not just talking about ideas. I am talking
about literal transformations at the level of energy, at the level
of esoteric super-physics (beyond the limitations you characteristically
presume), at the level of the Unqualified Condition of the Divine
Conscious Light."
- Volume 10/3: Your Fundamental
Stress Is Self-Contraction
"If any one Will Feel and Examine his or her (psycho-physical)
state In any moment, Whether Under the worst Or Under the best
Or Under the most ordinary of circumstances, he or she Will Surely
Discover That There Is Always A Characteristic Feeling Of Stress,
or Dis-ease, or A Motivating Sense Of Dilemma. Therefore, human
life (Characteristically Felt As Such Stress, Dis-ease, or Dilemma)
Is Also Always Characterized By Struggle, or A Generally Uninspected
(and Never Finally Satisfied) Search For Release and Fulfillment."
- Volume 10/2: Universal
World Prayer
Beloved, Inmost Heart of every heart,
do not Let our human hearts be broken
by our merely mortal suffering here –
but Make our mortal human hearts break-Free
to an unconditional love of You,
that we may, Thus, love all living beings
with Love's own True, and Truly broken, Heart.
- Volume 10/1: Everything
Transmits
"Everything transmits. The stones transmit, the sky does,
the TV does. Since everything and everyone transmits states of
existence, since life itself is participation in transmissions
of all kinds, the best thing you can do is to associate with the
greatest possible Transmission. Since everything is transmission,
spend time in the Company of the One who spontaneously Transmits
That Which Is Inherently Perfect and Ultimate. This is the great
rule, the Great Law, the Ultimate Principle of the the Great Tradition."
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