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Everything Disappears poster: Droca77 length: 06:57 date added: February 1, 2009 language: English views: 2708; views this month: 21; views this week: 11
Photos of Adi Da are accompanied by Angela Fine singing a tribute to Adi Da.
Images from and comments about the August 2011 Retreat — "After the Passing of the Master" (led by Anthony Costabile) — at the European Danda in Maria Hoop.
For upcoming retreats at the European Danda, check our Special Events page.
Quiet Dogs poster: JustinBerry length: 00:42 date added: July 23, 2011 event date: July 19, 2011 language: English views: 2705; views this month: 19; views this week: 7
The panoramic view from the porch of Quiet Dogs, one of the retreat quarters at The Mountain Of Attention.
poster: frank marrero length: 08:48 date added: March 17, 2009 language: English event speaker: Frank Marrero views: 2700; views this month: 13; views this week: 5
The miraculous nature of the Master's sensitivity to devotees is detailed.
The Sacred Arts in Adidam poster: satsang length: 03:39 date added: February 5, 2009 language: English views: 2693; views this month: 16; views this week: 7
The true and sacred purpose of music and art is to connect the viewer or the listener with the Divine. Adi Da has created a complete sacred culture in which all devotees are called to take up a particular sacred art as a part of their practice of the Way of Adidam.
[Contains Italian subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
In this video clip from the 1988 talk, "What Is Your Intention?", Adi Da criticizes the "do-it-yourself" approach to spirituality that is popular in the world today, and speaks about why a teacher is necessary.
Adi Da reminds us that, historically, all the world's spiritual traditions have taught that Spiritual Realization requires the help of a Spiritual Realizer. This is actually built into the laws of how Spiritual Realization works, and can't be changed just because times and cultures change, just because we don't happen to like the way the laws work or what they require of us, etc. For this reason, Adi Da makes the point that, nowadays, our resistence to authority, and addiction to "do it yourself" approaches, represent unfortunate hindrances to our own Spiritual growth: if we simply go with the flow and let these culturally instilled programs dominate our life choices, they will keep us from Realizing our greatest destiny.
Adi Da's Image-Art poster: Chandirah length: 01:39 date added: May 12, 2010 language: English views: 2670; views this month: 17; views this week: 7
This is a showcase of a portion of Adi Da's Sacred Image-Art. Adi Da is a very prolific artist, having created well over 70,000 images. This is just a small selection.
Moved by Love poster: frank marrero length: 04:56 date added: February 5, 2009 event date: May 1973 language: English views: 2668; views this month: 13; views this week: 6
Franklin Jones (Adi Da Samraj) talking to early devotees about the natural process of distraction. The occasion was a Prasad Day in May, 1973, in the backyard of a devotee's residence in Los Angeles.
Audio excerpt from a Discourse given by Adi Da Samraj at Adi Da Samrajashram, on January 7, 1994, accompanied by a slideshow of more recent photographs of Adi Da.
Adi Da leads us to inspect all the unconscious presumptions that determine our sense of what is "real" - including the core presumption of being a separate "self". "Notice the chronic disposition of mistrust and fear that accompanies this core illusion", He says, "and allow your heart to trust What Is Real."
Music by Larkin. Filming by Jagadeesh Ruben Polansky and Stormy May. Featuring Ren Hurst, Lindy James, Rosie D'Agostino, and Donna Condrey Miller. Produced by OurHorses/Chief Productions.
In this talk from April 16, 1995 (available on the CD, Love Is How I Got to Here, Adi Da describes how the preparatory stages of practice of the Reality-Way of Adidam are associated with attention, and how the attachment to attention and all its objects prevents the Realization of Reality As It Is.
He goes on to describe the unique advantage that His bodily Incarnation provides in the process of such Realization, for all time, and how the relationship to Him occurs — directly and personally — beyond the life of His human Form.
[Contains Spanish subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
Leela acerca de la función de la literatura espiritual de Adi Da Samraj por Jonathan Condit y Megan Anderson - Editores de la Prensa Dawn Horse.
This video clip, "La Función de la Literatura Espiritual de Adi Da Samraj" ("The Function of Adi Da Samraj's Spiritual Literature") includes:
Commentary from Jonathan Condit (at 0:00) — Jonathan Condit was Adi Da's senior editorial assistant, and is Senior Editor for the Adidam Editorial Department. Jonathan talks about "The Function of the Spiritual Literature of Adi Da Samraj", and how Adi Da's Teaching works as Transmission of His Transcendental Spiritual State, and serves the Spiritual Realization of the reader.
Excerpt from an Avataric Discourse by Adi Da (at 5:35) — The Discourse is "My Teaching is a Direct Transmission of Me", from October 28, 2005. Adi Da talks about how His Teaching Word is a form of Spiritual Transmission, that enables Divine Communion with Him (if the devotee is in the right devotional disposition), in the same way that a Murti photograph does, or any of the other forms of Agency that Adi Da has created for this purpose.
Commentary from Megan Anderson (at 12:44) — Megan Anderson is an editor in the Adidam Editorial Department. Megan talks about Adi Da's great, final masterpiece, The Aletheon as the purest communication and Transmission of Adi Da Himself (among all His many, extraordinary books), and describes receiving the Revelation of Adi Da as she was proofreading The Aletheon before its publication.
Adi Da: "My Reality-Teaching is unparalleled Spiritual Transmission, occurring under the most extraordinary circumstances. It is not the product of an ordinary mind or a kind of scholarly commentary. It is a direct expression of Spiritual Transformation, of Spiritual Power, of Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and (necessarily) Divine Being, Consciousness, and Love-Bliss. It does not arise in Me or through Me in any ordinary fashion. It is an utterly spontaneous and Transcendental Spiritual Event."
poster: frank marrero length: 07:32 date added: March 17, 2009 language: English event speaker: Frank Marrero views: 2627; views this month: 15; views this week: 8
A firsthand account of Beloved Adi Da "Playing" with one of His devotees (Frank Marrero), and an "inside" look at the first chapter of the book, The Dreaded Gom-Boo.
[Contains Italian subtitles. If the CC icon ("Subtitles/closed captions") has a red line under it, the subtitles should appear. If you don't see them, just press the CC icon to turn them on.]
L'Arte di Adi Da Samraj ("The Art of Adi Da Samraj") is a retrospective of Adi Da's monumental size image-art. It includes clips of Him talking about His work. It also includes slides from various exhibitions and some quotes about Adi Da's art from an art critic, an art historian, and a museum curator.
Adi Da talks about how being in the Company of a Spiritual Realizer is the best possible use of one's life, but it doesn't guarantee Realizing the Master's State, because Realization depends on the practitioner as well.
[Note: The video ends a bit abruptly, in the middle of a sentence.]
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