poster: CDBaby length: 02:25 date added: December 30, 2016 language: English views: 3576; views this month: 30; views this week: 14 Adi Da recites "The Heart Of Understanding", the prologue to His autobiography, The Knee Of Listening.
This excerpt is track 1 of the CD, Death and the Purpose of Existence, a collection of talks and recitations that exemplify Avatar Adi Da’s essential Wisdom-Teaching on death and dying.
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poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity length: 02:47 date added: April 15, 2017 language: English views: 3886; views this month: 34; views this week: 11 Adi Da recites "The Heart of Understanding", the Prologue to His autobiography, The Knee Of Listening. "The Heart of Understanding" also is the Prologue to His book, Easy Death.
The recitation is accompanied by photos of Adi Da.
"The Heart of Understanding" is extraordinarily good news: death itself can be transcended! The death of the body-mind is not a problem, and is utterly acceptable, if one realizes and stands as Consciousness Itself, in which all mortal forms and limited worlds are arising.
In the final words of "The Heart of Understanding", Adi Da reveals that He is That: Consciousness Itself. Because this is so, He transmits that Revelation to all beings, and provides (and is) the means whereby all of us finally can be free of mortality and the mortal vision.
This excerpt is track 1 of the CD, Death and the Purpose of Existence, a collection of talks and recitations that exemplify Avatar Adi Da’s essential Wisdom-Teaching on death and dying.
The world is endlessly allowed to be until I die. I Am the Heart's Shout. The worlds are endlessly involved with me while I appear, in forms that know them. But when I die and disappear from worlds where I have lived, there is no absence. My life has never made a world for me. I Am the Heart that Shouts them.tags: Aura BakkermusicThe Heart's Shout
poster: CDBaby length: 10:01 date added: April 6, 2024 event date: March 11, 1973 language: English views: 33; views this month: 33; views this week: 5 This audio excerpt is from the CD, The Ultimate Self-Understanding and Divine Communion, a collection of Talk excerpts illustrating the two fundamental principles of Avatar Adi Da’s Unique Revelation.
The Illusion and Danger of Knowledge poster: TheBeezone length: 13:59 date added: February 9, 2020 event date: November 6, 2004 language: English views: 1079; views this month: 11; views this week: 9 A video excerpt from an Avataric Discourse given by Avatar Adi Da on November 6, 2004, at Adi Da Samrajashram.
The complete Avataric Discourse (nearly four hours long) is available on the DVD, There Are No Historical Selves. In this Discourse, Adi Da elaborates His assertion that although we refer to others as "you" and ourselves as "I", we have never really experienced any such separate entities. Furthermore, the self-reference is a reference to a fiction, a convention from the society of egos.
ADI DA: You refer to yourself every time you say a sentence because that's how sentences are supposed to be constructed, and yet you have no experience of that "self" that you keep referring to. You don't experience it any more than you experience the room. You can experience "yourself", so-called, from the point of view of the moment or what could be called the "late time' of every perception and thought. It's the "late time" because it's after when it occurred. But it's called the present because it seems to be happening now.tags: Avataric DiscourseDVD
The Illusion of Familiarity poster: AdiDaUpClose length: 06:56 date added: June 5, 2010 language: English views: 2540; views this month: 4; views this week: 0 Audio excerpt from a discourse given by Adi Da on October 29, 2004. The talk can be found on the DVD, The Illusion of Familiarity.
The Illusion of Seeking poster: Religion99 length: 05:49 date added: February 1, 2009 event date: April 8, 1993 language: English views: 3146; views this month: 11; views this week: 3 A talk about seeking and self-understanding (audio), accompanied by video footage of Adi Da.
The Key To Sexuality Is Emotion poster: Adi Da Videa, čeština length: 08:34 date added: November 21, 2022 language: Czech views: 367; views this month: 22; views this week: 15 [Contains Czech 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.]
"The Key to Our Sexuality Is Emotion" is an excerpt from a longer Discourse in which Adi Da communicates how all our problems (including sexual problems) are rooted in the feeling of being a separate self, which coincides with the feeling, "you don't love me", the feeling of rejection by (or lack of sustenance from) the universe, and leads to the reaction, "I don't love you".tags: Czech
The Key to the Death Process poster: AdiDaVideos length: 12:59 date added: February 12, 2015 event date: October 12, 2004 language: English views: 2989; views this month: 3; views this week: 2 In this excerpt from an Avataric Discourse from October 12, 2004, on Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da addresses the inevitability of death, the life of profound purpose that outshines mortality, and how living life as a sacrifice in the Divine is the key to the death process.
The Killers poster: The Adi Da Foundation length: 03:01 date added: November 27, 2015 event date: 2006 language: English listens: 2819; listens this month: 12; listens this week: 3 Adi Da reads an excerpt from His short story, "The Killers", in 2006. "The Killers" is a chapter in Adi Da's The Happenine Book (Book Three of The Orpheum Trilogy), and was also the first literary work ever written by Adi Da.
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The Knowledge Of Light poster: AdiDaUpClose length: 04:14 date added: November 30, 2021 event date: February 3, 1985 language: English listens: 707; listens this month: 20; listens this week: 13 An audio excerpt from the new CD, The Knowledge Of Light, from The Dawn Horse Press.
In the early months of 1985, Avatar Adi Da was residing at His Hermitage-Island in Fiji, working intensively to complete the first edition of His Supreme Scriptural Text, The Dawn Horse Testament. Avatar Adi Da began this occasion by reciting a newly written essay, which He subsequently added to The Dawn Horse Testament — and then spoke at length about the import of the essay.
In this Discourse, Avatar Adi Da invites everyone to consider the implications of the common understanding that everything — all that you see, hear, breathe, taste, smell, feel — is energy, or light. Rather than suggesting yet another method of seeking within the infinite forms of experienced light, Avatar Adi Da Offers (and Is) the direct Transmission of Light — which Reveals Itself to be the Self-Radiant Bliss of Consciousness Itself.
ADI DA: The most intimate presumption, the real presumption — that all this is Light — should be sufficient to make your hair stand on end. Real Communion with Light, or True Baptism — founded on “self” understanding — produces ecstasy, profound transformation of the being, liberates you from all of your egoic psychology.tags: CD comments: 1
poster: CDBaby length: 07:51 date added: January 2, 2024 language: English views: 141; views this month: 29; views this week: 23 “The Knowledge of Light” is track 4 on the CD, Awaken To Brightness.
This CD contains a selection of Discourses from 1974 to 1997, which cover a broad spectrum of Avatar Adi Da’s Instruction. They provide a basic introduction to His Wisdom-Teaching and include Adi Da addressing principle matters of Spiritual life.
These Talks encompass the relationship to the Spiritual Master, the principle of Attraction, what occurs in the death process, the fundamental error at the root of all seeking, the limits of conventional religion and scientific materialism, and more. on the CD, Awaken To Brightness.
This CD contains a selection of Discourses from 1974 to 1997, which cover a broad spectrum of Avatar Adi Da’s Instruction. They provide a basic introduction to His Wisdom-Teaching and include Adi Da addressing principle matters of Spiritual life.
These Talks encompass the relationship to the Spiritual Master, the principle of Attraction, what occurs in the death process, the fundamental error at the root of all seeking, the limits of conventional religion and scientific materialism, and more.tags: CD
Avatar Adi Da’s first Talk in this set examines the difference between the peripheral reactions of the seeking body-mind and the core understanding of the motivating sensation of the self-contraction itself.
The second Talk is an exposition of the fundamental principle of non-seeking in the Way of Adidam and the “darkness” of the materialistic point of view.tags: CD
poster: CDBaby length: 07:26 date added: June 19, 2023 language: English views: 320; views this month: 24; views this week: 20 This talk excerpt is track 10 of the CD, Reality Is Beyond "Point Of View", a selection of talks by Adi Da (from the 30 years of His formal Teaching-Work) on the true nature of Reality. Brings together samples from His vast Divine Instruction relative to the true nature of Reality — as the unknowable Condition that is Always Already the Case, prior to the presumption of a separate “point of view”.
Note: Due to distribution policies set by CDBaby (and beyond the control of this website and Adidam), this video may not be playable in every country. However, sometimes, even when you can't play it on this page, you may be able to play it on YouTube: click here.tags: CD
poster: CDBaby length: 08:23 date added: January 2, 2024 language: English views: 171; views this month: 38; views this week: 30 “The Law of Love-Bliss” is track 5 on the CD, Awaken To Brightness.
This CD contains a selection of Discourses from 1974 to 1997, which cover a broad spectrum of Avatar Adi Da’s Instruction. They provide a basic introduction to His Wisdom-Teaching and include Adi Da addressing principle matters of Spiritual life.
These Talks encompass the relationship to the Spiritual Master, the principle of Attraction, what occurs in the death process, the fundamental error at the root of all seeking, the limits of conventional religion and scientific materialism, and more.tags: CD
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