In this excerpt (from September 4, 2004), Adi Da Adi Da speaks to a questioner about her mother’s suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and the transcending of attention that becomes possible with maturing spiritual practice.
Adi Da points to the depth of existence that is always the case regardless of the changing states of awareness (waking, dreaming, and sleeping). And He Calls for ego-transcending practice (sadhana) to be engaged at this depth—so that What Is Prior to all conditional states can be Realized.tags: CDAvataric Discourse comments: 1
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 15:00 date added: April 2, 2011 event date: March 10, 2011 language: English event speaker: Jonathan Condit views: 3593; views this month: 7; views this week: 3 Jonathan Condit (Adi Da's senior editorial assistant) gives a presentation entitled "The Pneumaton: Bhagavan Adi Da's Book Of The Divine Spirit-Breath, at Adi Da Samrajashram, on March 10, 2011, coinciding with the publication of The Pneumaton.tags: Pneumaton
Adi Da answers a question from a 10-year-old boy who wants to not be so angry all the time.tags: CD
The Fire Must Have Its Way poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:46 date added: November 27, 2015 event date: July 17, 1978 language: English listens: 3577; listens this month: 23; listens this week: 9 This clip is an excerpt from Adi Da's talk, "The Fire Must Have Its Way", which was given on July 17, 1978. In this talk, Adi Da clarifies that real Spiritual practice is not about "feeling good", but an intense purification of all limits on feeling. This fire of purification occurs by coming into contact with the Pure Radiance of the Spiritual Master. By persistently granting feeling-attention to Avatar Adi Da’s Living Divine Presence, all ego-patterns are "burned up" by His Grace—ultimately enabling egoless participation in the Perfect Ecstasy of Real God.
An additional (videoed) excerpt from this talk is available here.
In this excerpt (from August 26, 2004), Adi Da responds to a questioner who asks how she can practice devotion in her dream state.
Adi Da indicates the necessity of self-understanding, in order for devotees to grow in practice. He points to the depth of existence that is always the case regardless of the changing states of awareness (waking, dreaming, and sleeping). And He Calls for ego-transcending practice (sadhana) to be engaged at this depth—so that What Is Prior to all conditional states can be Realized.tags: CDAvataric Discourse
The CD contains excerpts from two Avataric Discourses (December 5, 2004, and August 13, 2004), in which Adi Da addresses the questions: What kind of experiences might you notice arising in the course of esoteric practice or via Spiritual Transmission? What is the secret to relating to them rightly?
On December 5, 2004, when asked by a devotee about a particular experience, Avatar Adi Da contrasts the self-authenticating nature of the experience with the attitude of having a question about the experience.
On August 13, 2004, Adi Da speaks about the potential of blissful experience to create unrealistic presumptions about the self and about real practice.tags: CDAvataric Discourse
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 00:48 date added: August 6, 2012 event date: 2012 language: English listens: 3479; listens this month: 8; listens this week: 5 Title track from Hansa, an album of ancient Indian prayers and poems set to new music by Tamarind Free Jones and Gawain Mathews.tags: TamarindCD
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 03:39 date added: April 2, 2011 event date: March 10, 2011 language: English event speaker: Jonathan Condit views: 3332; views this month: 8; views this week: 3 Jonathan Condit (Adi Da's senior editorial assistant) gives a presentation entitled "The Pneumaton: Bhagavan Adi Da's Book Of The Divine Spirit-Breath, at Adi Da Samrajashram, on March 10, 2011, coinciding with the publication of The Pneumaton.tags: Pneumaton
On this CD, Avatar Adi Da Samraj masterfully explores the relationship between experience, understanding, and Truth: Experience cannot ever lead to Truth -- but, in the context of the devotional relationship to Avatar Adi Da, experience can serve the crisis of understanding that makes a person available to His Transmission of Truth.
The CD includes Avatar Adi Da's lively recountings of two genuine conversion stories -- one from a modern Christian minister and the other His amusing free-rendering of the story of Ribhu and his disciple Nidhaga (from the Ribhu Gita, an epitome of traditional Non-dualist teachings).tags: CD
I Am Always Already Free poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:40 date added: May 15, 2010 language: English views: 3280; views this month: 3; views this week: 2 "I Am Always Already Free" features an exquisite slideshow of photographs of Avatar Adi Da in the last month of His life.
It is accompanied by recordings of Adi Da speaking of His eventual Passing, quotes from His "first and foremost" book, The Aletheon, and musical offerings.
The Sun of the Heart poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:43 date added: November 30, 2019 language: English listens: 3074; listens this month: 41; listens this week: 15 The Sun of the Heart is a chanting CD made by devotee Simon Pritchard, with musical partners Rosa Guilfoyle and James Edward Clarke, and the assistance of several additional devotee musicians and singers. The eight chants on this CD were recorded, engineered and mastered by James Edward Clarke at Ty Cerdd Wales Millennium Centre – Cardiff – Wales in 2014 and 2015. The CD comes with a sixteen-page booklet of artworks and sacred text. It is available as a CD from the Dawn Horse Press.
This audio excerpt is track 6, "Da Bhagavan".
The CD is inspired by and dedicated to Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj. The lyrics are all Sacred Names and Mantras given by Avatar Adi Da Samraj to His devotees for the sake of their invocation of His Divine Spiritual Presence and State.
"The Sun of the Heart is just wonderful. . . . full of the Spirit of the Happiness of God in Everyone." —Angelo Druda
"This sound is not only highly professional but also Angelic! Like too beautiful to be true. . ." —Jovana Ugolkovtags: music comments: 3
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