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Money, Food, and Sex

    Language: English
  • Listens: 6185
  • Listens This Month: 20
  • Listens This Week: 5
  • Event Date:
    January 18, 1973
An excerpt from "Money, Food, and Sex", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da criticizes the typical conception of Spirituality as having nothing to do with the realities of day-to-day life and says that taking responsibility for money, food, and sex creates the foundation practice of genuine spiritual practice.

From the CD, Money, Food, and Sex / Guru As Prophet. This talk is also published in the book, My "Bright" Word. A course, My "Bright" Word, is also available from The Laughing Man Institute.

Tags: CD  

Walking The Dog

    Language: English
  • Listens: 4897
  • Listens This Month: 29
  • Listens This Week: 9
  • Event Date:
    September 21, 1972
An excerpt from "Walking the Dog", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Using the analogy of a man walking his dog to describe the usual man's self-indulgence and sub-consciousness, Avatar Adi Da Samraj humorously expounds on the true nature of our own egoity.

From the CD, The Avon Lady / Walking The Dog. This talk is also published in the book, My "Bright" Word. A course, My "Bright" Word, is also available from The Laughing Man Institute.

Tags: CD  

The Avon Lady, excerpt 2

    Language: English
  • Listens: 5737
  • Listens This Month: 31
  • Listens This Week: 9
  • Event Date:
    June 20, 1972
An excerpt from "The Avon Lady", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da explains how there is no search and no dilemma when one is in Satsang (the company of the Guru).

The full talk, "The Avon Lady", is available on the double CD, The Avon Lady / Walking the Dog. The text is available in the book, My "Bright" Word. A course, My "Bright" Word, is also available from The Laughing Man Institute.

For another audio excerpt from "The Avon Lady", press "part 1" above.

For a special article from the Adidam Revelation Magazine on "The Avon Lady", click here.

Tags: CD  

A Sudden Door

  • Poster: madjym
  • Length: 03:22
    • Date Added:
    June 23, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 2584
  • Views This Month: 7
  • Views This Week: 3
Devotee Jym Daly creating a portrait of Adi Da Samraj.

Jym writes: "Life can carry on in its pattern for what seems like forever, then in one moment there can be a sudden door. The spiritual process is one which makes the door a constant presence."


How We Make Honey on Naitauba

  • Poster: billkrenz54
  • Event Speaker:
    Bill Krenz
  • Length: 07:40
    • Date Added:
    June 17, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 3741
  • Views This Month: 16
  • Views This Week: 4
Beekeeping and harvesting honey on Naitauba Island, Fiji.

For even more from the Naitauba Organic Farm, visit the Naitauba Organic Farm website.

Tags: Naitauba   Adi Da Samrajashram   farm  

Sacred Musical Offering: June 3, 2012, Mountain Of Attention

  • Poster: brightworld1
  • Length: 01:23
    • Date Added:
    May 28, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 4871
  • Views This Month: 16
  • Views This Week: 6
  • Event Date:
    June 3, 2012
Peter van Gelder (sitar), John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla) will perform a Sacred Offering of classical Indian ragas on 2pm on June 3, 2012, in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention.

This is a fundraising event to support sending musicians to Naitauba for Da Purnima.

Suggested donation: $15. (No one is turned away.)
For more information, call: 301-346-0789.

Event poster here.


I Have Appeared From The Realm Of Light: July 2012

    Language: English
  • Views: 5242
  • Views This Month: 12
  • Views This Week: 3
  • Event Date:
    July 5, 2012

You are invited to "I Have Appeared From The Realm Of Light": A Four-Day Retreat at the European Danda.

Dates: July 5 - 8, 2012
Place: The European Danda (the Netherlands).

A devotional, literary, theatrical, and artistic happening, led by longtime devotee Steve Brown, with special guests Ruchiradama Nadikanta, Naamleela Free Jones, and Ruy Carpenter.

More information here.

For upcoming retreats at the European Danda, check our Special Events page.

Videographer: Matt Braithwaite

Tags: European Danda   retreat   Steve Brown   Orpheum   Mummery  

How We Make Boards with a Chain Saw on Naitauba

  • Poster: billkrenz54
  • Event Speaker:
    Bill Krenz
  • Length: 06:20
    • Date Added:
    April 7, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 5144
  • Views This Month: 18
  • Views This Week: 5
How boards are made with a chainsaw on the island of Naitauba in Fiji.

Narrated by Bill Krenz. Music ("Chainsaw Blues") by Simon Evans and Aaron Nakagawa.

For even more from the Naitauba Organic Farm, visit the Naitauba Organic Farm website.

Tags: Naitauba   Adi Da Samrajashram   organic farm  

Spiritual Satisfaction

  • Poster: Tastingthemoon
  • Event Speaker:
    Meg Fortune McDonnell
  • Length: 11:59
    • Date Added:
    April 7, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 5436
  • Views This Month: 15
  • Views This Week: 3
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.

Tags: Meg Fortune McDonnell   Tasting the Moon   devotee book  

Tantric Yogini Wanna Be

    Language: English
  • Views: 6334
  • Views This Month: 17
  • Views This Week: 5
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life.This story is from the chapter, "How I Overcame My High Self-Esteem." This piece contrasts with a more monastic life-style as it explores the connection between spirit and sex.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.

Tags: Meg Fortune McDonnell   Tasting the Moon   On the Road   devotee book  

Love and Sex in the 1960s

  • Poster: Tastingthemoon
  • Event Speaker:
    Meg Fortune McDonnell
  • Length: 07:35
    • Date Added:
    April 7, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 14229
  • Views This Month: 18
  • Views This Week: 3
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story is excerpted from the chapter titled "On the Road," which goes on to describe the ferment of the sexual revolution, beat poetry, living theater, and alternative lifestyles of the early 1970's.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.

Tags: Meg Fortune McDonnell   Tasting the Moon   On the Road   devotee book  

Sitting with the Guru

  • Poster: Tastingthemoon
  • Event Speaker:
    Meg Fortune McDonnell
  • Length: 09:30
    • Date Added:
    April 7, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 5822
  • Views This Month: 22
  • Views This Week: 4
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This excerpt is the culminating story in the chapter, "First Encounters," which begins with the startling dreams and unusual synchronicities that drew Meg to Adi Da.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.

Tags: Meg Fortune McDonnell   Tasting the Moon   First Encounters   devotee book  

Opera as Blessing

    Language: English
  • Views: 6114
  • Views This Month: 18
  • Views This Week: 6
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story appears in the chapter, "To You, Love-Ananda," which begins when Meg travels to Fiji for the first time, to see her teacher in a new island setting.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.

Tags: Meg Fortune McDonnell   Tasting the Moon   To You, Love-Ananda   devotee book  

Frustrated Fashionista

  • Poster: Tastingthemoon
  • Event Speaker:
    Meg Fortune McDonnell
  • Length: 12:03
    • Date Added:
    April 7, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 5495
  • Views This Month: 35
  • Views This Week: 10
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story appears at the beginning of the chapter, "God's Eyes," which goes on to describe more explorations of dress, sexuality, and gender roles.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.

Tags: Meg Fortune McDonnell   Tasting the Moon   God's Eyes   devotee book  

Catholic Guilt

  • Poster: Tastingthemoon
  • Event Speaker:
    Meg Fortune McDonnell
  • Length: 11:01
    • Date Added:
    April 6, 2012 
    Language: English
  • Views: 5145
  • Views This Month: 17
  • Views This Week: 5
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story is excerpted from the chapter, "In Plain Talk Chapel". Meg recounts her early Catholic experiences and the conclusions she drew in relation to her religious upbringing.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.

Tags: Tasting the Moon   Meg Fortune McDonnell   devotee book  

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