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Locate What Is Real poster: DawnHorsePress length: 05:49 date added: February 23, 2012 event date: October 10, 2004 language: English views: 4160; views this month: 5; views this week: 2 This is an excerpt from the DVD, Locate What Is Real, an Avataric Discourse given by Adi Da on October 10, 2004.
On the full DVD: * Adi Da describes how Reality is the true “first experience” for everyone — more fundamental to existence than identification with the apparently “born” being. * He speaks about how music and other arts can function as extensions of Spirituality. * He talks about Ramana Maharshi and the sixth stage orientation, in contrast to His seventh stage Reality-Way. * He addresses a devotee’s experience of emotional trauma, and how such events can affect one’s life. * He describes His own Submission, in His early life, to the process of Christian mystical experience.tags: avataric discourseDVDsixth stage traditions
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 22:59 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 3491; listens this month: 5; listens this week: 2 Fear is an inherent characteristic of identification with the mortal body. Adi Da explains that such fear cannot be escaped, but that identification with the body can be understood and utterly transcended in the Divine Self-Condition.tags: Radical Truth Audio Seriesfear
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 20:10 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 4009; listens this month: 5; listens this week: 1 This podcast is drawn from two talks in which Adi Da talks about science and scientific materialism. He describes what science can serve and what the limits are in its endeavor to discover the truth about Reality.tags: Radical Truth Audio Seriessciencescientific materialism
poster: Tastingthemoon length: 06:09 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English views: 5643; views this month: 5; views this week: 2 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.
Summary of the Way of Adidam poster: frank marrero length: 12:36 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English views: 2430; views this month: 5; views this week: 0 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
In The Field of Sacred Camels poster: SacredCamelGardens length: 23:12 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English event speaker: Stuart Camps views: 3417; views this month: 5; 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.
A Sudden Door poster: madjym length: 03:22 date added: June 23, 2012 language: English views: 2268; views this month: 5; 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."
Midnight Sun or Narcissus? poster: frank marrero length: 47:41 date added: July 8, 2012 event date: 2004 language: English views: 3603; views this month: 5; views this week: 0 This video clip begins with silent Darshan. Then Adi Da addresses a questioner who is taken by a vision of the "Midnight Sun". Adi Da clarifies that the vision was a state that the ego experienced therefore was not the true vision of the Midnight Sun which is itself the egoless condition.tags: DarshanAvataric Discourse
poster: frank marrero length: 10:03 date added: July 9, 2012 event date: 1996 language: English views: 2249; views this month: 5; views this week: 1 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj addresses a question about the difficulty a devotee is experiencing in his practice. Adi Da points out the Western aversion to being rightly mastered and living by His instruction and how this turns the practice into a "problem".
Adi Da Samraj Talks about His Childhood and Youth poster: frank marrero length: 17:45 date added: July 26, 2012 language: English views: 3252; views this month: 5; views this week: 1 Adi Da Samraj talks about the play of His deeper personality vehicle in the context of His childhood and youth.
poster: SusanaWeingarten length: 07:43 date added: August 8, 2012 language: English views: 3032; views this month: 5; views this week: 1 "True Water" is a dance based on Adi Da's wisdom about sexuality and equanimity.
Choreographer/Dancer: Susana Weingarten Music: The Empire Brass Quintet Costume Design: Ratava Jarmas "Midnight Sun" Set Design: Molly Watson
The Obligation and the Law poster: TheBeezone length: 04:02 date added: August 12, 2012 event date: 1988 language: English listens: 2195; listens this month: 5; listens this week: 0 Adi Da talks about right life and disciplines in the context of the Way of Adidam.
[If this audio clip doesn't play, try pressing the play button a couple of times after the clip has fully loaded; or try re-loading the page.]tags: disciplineright life
The Beginner's Discipline poster: TheBeezone length: 01:11 date added: August 12, 2012 language: English listens: 2189; listens this month: 5; listens this week: 1 Adi Da talks about the early phase of sadhana: taking on life conditions.
[If this audio clip doesn't play, try pressing the play button a couple of times after the clip has fully loaded; or try re-loading the page.]tags: disciplineright life
Fear, Separation and Self-Contraction poster: TheBeezone length: 05:54 date added: September 8, 2012 event date: 1973 language: English listens: 2259; listens this month: 5; listens this week: 2 Adi Da talks about fear and the self-contraction. "Wherever there is an 'other', fear arises."
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