poster: frank marrero length: 34:53 date added: June 28, 2012 language: English views: 2005; views this month: 3; views this week: 1 Adi Da answers a devotee's question about fear, and considers the root of all fear: our self-contracted being.tags: Avataric Discourse
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:03 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: December 23, 1973 language: English listens: 5040; listens this month: 12; listens this week: 4 An excerpt from "Guru As Prophet", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da speaks of the Guru's role as prophet in the world, which is to create "an aggravation, a criticism, an undermining of the usual life". He speaks of how the Guru in the function of prophet is always working to produce a condition in which people's illusions may be undone.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:34 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: January 18, 1973 language: English listens: 5679; listens this month: 23; listens this week: 3 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.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:06 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: September 21, 1972 language: English listens: 4359; listens this month: 13; listens this week: 4 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.
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:49 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: June 20, 1972 language: English listens: 4905; listens this month: 15; listens this week: 1 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).
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: 2265; views this month: 7; views this week: 2 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."
In The Field of Sacred Camels poster: SacredCamelGardens length: 23:12 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English event speaker: Stuart Camps views: 3413; views this month: 8; views this week: 1 This documentary shows the development of the cooperative process between camels and people that fosters the spiritual growth of both cultures.
The Realization of That Which Is Always Already The Case poster: frank marrero length: 28:53 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English views: 2481; views this month: 8; views this week: 2 Adi Da answers a devotee's question about forms of mind and emotion that arise in meditation. He speaks of this as the ordeal of sadhana that must be undertaken and persisted in in His Company in order to Realize Him.tags: Avataric Discourse
Summary of the Way of Adidam poster: frank marrero length: 12:36 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English views: 2428; views this month: 4; views this week: 3 Adi Da speaks about the use of the internet as a means of Sighting Him and practicing in His Company.
He speaks of the constant stimulation of the body-mind that people are involved in and how this is a block to noticing Reality Prior to the separate self. He admonishes devotees to practice and thus deal with the bondage that is the human condition.tags: Avataric Discourse
poster: billkrenz54 length: 07:40 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English event speaker: Bill Krenz views: 3395; views this month: 6; views this week: 1 Beekeeping and harvesting honey on Naitauba Island, Fiji.
There Is No "I" Sitting Here poster: frank marrero length: 06:58 date added: June 17, 2012 event date: July 7, 2005 language: English views: 2068; views this month: 4; views this week: 1 Adi Da talks about His State of Realization - in particular, the total freedom from any thought or "I" associated with His body.tags: Avataric Discourse
Spiritual Masters are THE Historical Source of Revealed Truth poster: frank marrero length: 07:48 date added: June 11, 2012 language: English views: 2414; views this month: 6; views this week: 2 Adi Da speaks about the necessity of the Spiritual Master in order to know Truth and to recognize the delusions with which human beings otherwise confound themselves.tags: Avataric Discourse
Criticism of Conventional Religionists poster: frank marrero length: 23:59 date added: June 11, 2012 language: English views: 2236; views this month: 3; views this week: 2 Adi Da speaks strongly and clearly in His Admonition to devotees to not turn the Way of Adidam into a conventional seekers' path.tags: Avataric Discourse
Radical Understanding poster: frank marrero length: 09:48 date added: June 10, 2012 language: English views: 1864; views this month: 3; views this week: 1 Excerpts from discourses throughout Adi Da's lifetime in which He explains the term "self-contraction" and the necessity of coming to a full and radical understanding of the action of this mechanism in order to begin true spiritual practice in His Company.tags: self-contraction
The Form of Whole Bodily Spiritual Practice poster: frank marrero length: 24:57 date added: June 10, 2012 language: English views: 2475; views this month: 6; views this week: 4 Adi Da talks about how the self-contraction creates the sense of a separate narcissistic 'me' over against everything else; and how this relates to sadhana (ego-transcending practice) in the Way of Adidam.
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