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13 AUDIO audio OR VIDEO video CLIPS POSTED BY Wisdom Tools for Humanity

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Adi Da Speaks to a Young Devotee about How to Lovevideo
part 2 of The Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 09:03
date added: March 26, 2017
event date: October 28, 1978
language: English
views: 3287; views this month: 43; views this week: 32
Adi Da answers a question from a 10-year-old boy who wants to not be so angry and "righteous" all the time. Adi Da reveals some basic secrets about the nature of love. A very sweet exchange. From the talk, "Remember The Mystery In Which You Live", given by Adi Da on October 28, 1978, in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary in Northern California.

The excerpt of Adi Da talking is followed (at 6:36) by commentary by longtime devotee Abel Slater.

Death Is A Living Processvideo
part 3 of Death Is a Living Process

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 16:00
date added: April 15, 2017
event date: February 11, 2015
language: English
event speaker: Angelo Druda
views: 2887; views this month: 9; views this week: 3
An excerpt from the February 11, 2015 Adidam Webinar, "Death Is A Living Process". In this clip, Angelo Druda talks about the stages of death, based on Adi Da's wisdom in His book, Easy Death, and the familiar stages of grief introduced in the groundbreaking work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

To view the entire "Death Is a Living Process" webinar, click here.

Angelo Druda has conducted seminars on Easy Death for thousands of people around the world for over two decades. He is a certified practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a member of the Australian Natural Therapist Association, and a senior educator in Mate Moce, the Ministry established by Adi Da Samraj to instruct human beings about the death process, and serve their transition. He is the author of The Tao of Rejuvenation and The Easy Death Workbook.

Introduction narrator: Deb Helleren
Introduction music: "Drifted in a Deeper Land", from Ray Lynch's album, Nothing Above My Shoulders But the Evening.
tags:
death   webinar  
comments: 1

Diet as Regenerative Processvideo
part 1 of The Searchless Raw Diet

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 04:24
date added: March 19, 2017
event date: May 24, 1983
language: English
views: 4120; views this month: 30; views this week: 2
Adi Da gave this talk on May 24, 1983, in Fiji. In it he describes how all processes (including diet) associated with transformation of the body-mind (making it an appropriate yogic vehicle compatible with the Transcendental Spiritual Way of Adidam) necessarily first go through purification and rebalancing phases (for as long as they take) — associated with Fire — before they enter the regeneration phase — associated with Light. Knowing this helps one persist in the fire of the purification and rebalancing phases to the point where one comes out the other side.
tags:
searchless diet  

How To Serve A Dying Personvideo
part 2 of Death Is a Living Process

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 10:42
date added: April 15, 2017
event date: May 31, 1980
language: English
views: 1841; views this month: 7; views this week: 1
Excerpt from a talk given by Adi Da in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, on May 31, 1980.

In this discourse, a student of Adi Da asks Him for suggestions to help her dying mother. Adi Da then responds both with compassion and also with very practical advice on how to serve the dying.

[The recording of Adi Da's voice is slightly distorted, but understandable.]

Sacred Sightingvideo
part 4 of Reality, Truth and Conscious Light

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 03:03
date added: March 18, 2017
event date: June 2, 2008
language: English
views: 2985; views this month: 36; views this week: 3
A simple, potent, silent occasion in which Adi Da sits with His devotees (on June 2, 2008 at Adi Da Samrajashram) and communicates His Divine State.
tags:
Darshan  
comments: 1

Serving My Mother's Deathvideo
part 4 of Death Is a Living Process

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 16:07
date added: April 15, 2017
event date: February 11, 2015
language: English
event speaker: Rachel Kuhn
views: 3086; views this month: 21; views this week: 4
An excerpt from the February 11, 2015 Adidam Webinar, "Death Is A Living Process". In this clip, Rachel Kuhn talks about serving her mother's death, after her mother had suffered with multiple sclerosis for many years. She tells a story of how love overwhelmed the fear of death and the trauma of living a difficult life.
tags:
death  
comments: 9

Sex Is Fundamental ego-Identityvideo
part 3 of The Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 04:59
date added: March 26, 2017
event date: January 21, 2005
language: English
views: 4713; views this month: 51; views this week: 32
Adi Da: "Sex is fundamental ego-identity, lived. And generally speaking, it is a problem for everyone. . . The social pattern of 'self' and 'other' is founded upon emotional-sexual patterning to a very great degree. . . So it certainly is an important dimension of bondage, and therefore an important aspect of sadhana. The Perfect Practice is not based on any reference to the body-mind, or any method of the body-mind."

In this Avataric Discourse (from January 21, 2005), Adi Da explains why the Perfect Practice (the most advanced development of the Way of Adidam) has nothing to do with sex (or the ego-"I" altogether), and is not a "method" of the body-mind or something to be applied to the body-mind. The Self-Condition prior to the body-mind is the domain of the Perfect Practice. The Self-Condition is not a separate "self", but the Nirvanic Condition that is always already the case, and that inherently transcends the body-mind.

This excerpt is from the DVD, Beyond Sex, Science, and self. Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew.

A CD version is also available.
tags:
Avataric Discourse   Perfect Practice   DVD   CD  

The Heart of Understandingvideo
part 1 of Death Is a Living Process

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 02:47
date added: April 15, 2017
language: English
views: 3850; views this month: 23; views this week: 6
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 album is available through iTunes, Microsoft, and The Dawn Horse Press.
tags:
death   poem   Knee Of Listening  

The True Food that Sustains Usvideo
part 2 of The Searchless Raw Diet

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 09:49
date added: March 19, 2017
language: English
views: 4700; views this month: 49; views this week: 6
An audio excerpt from Adi Da Samraj's early talk, "Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity", accompanied by photos of Adi Da from a more recent Avataric Discourse.

We experience "independent" existence as a kind of madness, a seeming separation from food (both because of the cutting of the umbilical cord and as a feeling of separation from our ultimate source of sustenance, the Very Divine). We must instead be like the eating gorilla. . .

Adi Da: "The eating gorilla finds a cabbage in the jungle, sits down like a slob and munches away at the cabbage, and is completely benign, completely peaceful. . . . Therefore, the eating gorilla is the image of the true man, the true woman. He demonstrates the principle of true politics, of real human existence, in which we are always presently connected to the Food Source in Truth, and are always presuming connection, relationship, 'I love you.' "

"Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity" is available as a CD here. A transcript is also available online and as a chapter in the book, The Yoga Of Right Diet.
tags:
searchless diet  

The True Nature of Realityvideo
part 3 of Reality, Truth and Conscious Light

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 03:12
date added: March 18, 2017
language: English
event speaker: Nick Elias
views: 2741; views this month: 34; views this week: 4
In this excerpt from the film, "Reality, Truth and Conscious Light", Adi Da describes Reality from the "point of view" of Conscious Light. (The excerpt includes a clip of Adi Da speaking, from an Avataric Discourse on November 11, 2005. A longer excerpt can be watched here.)

The complete film, "Reality, Truth, and Conscious Light" can be viewed at our "Reality, Truth, and Conscious Light" introductory events, held worldwide. Click here to locate an event near you.

Narrator: Nick Elias
tags:
Avataric Discourse  

What Is Doubt?video
part 4 of The Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 13:25
date added: March 26, 2017
event date: July 20, 1986
language: English
views: 3368; views this month: 54; views this week: 42
In 1986, Adi Da made His first visit to the European community of His devotees. He travelled through England, France and Holland. In the South of Holland, in the village of Maria Hoop close to the German border, a former Catholic monastery was found which could be rented for a few weeks. Devotees swiftly cleaned buildings and the grounds. Adi Da stayed in a specially prepared wing of the monastery for several days. During this time, He granted Darshan and held "Question and Answer" occasions in the chapel (now called Adi Da Kapel) with German, English, Dutch, French and American devotees. The former monastery has since been acquired by the European community of Adidam and is now known as The European Danda.

In this rare excerpt from one of the "Question and Answer" occasions, Adi Da addresses the primal human emotion of doubt in a most direct and simple manner. He describes how doubt is not ultimately a sign that we have been "betrayed" in some way. The radical solution to doubt is to identify with the Divine Itself, beyond the temporary cycles of the body and mind and beyond the sense of being a separate self.

Why One Needs A Teachervideo
part 2 of Reality, Truth and Conscious Light

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 07:03
date added: March 18, 2017
event date: December 27, 1988
language: English
views: 3562; views this month: 44; views this week: 7
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.

The full talk is available on the DVD, The Commitment To Real-God-Realization.

For more on this subject, read our article, Why Great Spiritual Realization Requires a Spiritual Transmission Master.
tags:
DVD  

You Don't Love Mevideo
part 1 of The Yoga of Human Emotional-Sexual Life

poster: Wisdom Tools for Humanity
length: 08:47
date added: March 25, 2017
language: English
views: 4065; views this month: 67; views this week: 52
An audio excerpt from Adi Da Samraj's early talk, "Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity", accompanied by more recent photos of Adi Da.

Adi Da: "When we look out into the universe we feel insulted, rejected, unloved. And so we make philosophy out of our apparent independence. Fundamentally, it is not our experiences in particular relationships that tell us we are not loved. Some people do not love us, surely, but nevertheless we are simply, always, and already philosophically disposed to believe that we are not loved. It is our interpretation of existence, not on the basis of any relational experience we have had with other human beings, but on the basis of our apparent independence itself. Our sense of independent bodily existence means separation to us, whereas, you see, it is really only the sense of independent bodily existence. When you become strong — if you ever can become truly strong — autonomous, able to take a deep breath, then you stop interpreting the universe as a form of rejection, as a great parent from whose company you have been expelled, under whose domination you live, who has rejected you and does not love you. Everyone is simply born into the conventional condition of independence and everyone interprets that condition as rejection, as 'you don't love me.' "

"Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity" is available as a CD here. A transcript is also available online and as a chapter in the book, The Yoga Of Right Diet.




 
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