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In 2004, Adi Da Samraj talks to devotee Peter Harvey-Wright about using the Devotional Prayer of Changes to serve the Adidam Mission. He distinguishes conventional "neurotic prayer" (in which a person relates to God like a big "Parent") from the Prayer of Changes, which requires not just visualization but a change in action. As part of that change in action, He mentions the "barefoot Mission" (a phrase meant to emphasize the one-on-one nature of a truly effective Mission). He also stresses the importance of an authentic culture of Adidam as essential for attracting new devotees.

Tags: Mission   Devotional Prayer of Changes   Avataric Discourse  

Adi Da talking in 1988 to devotees in New Zealand, pointing out that what they do with any life experience is entirely up to them - including the option to transcend the experience altogether.

The Facing East Trio will perform at the Adidam Center in Los Angeles on September 19, 2012. John Wubbenhorst: bansuri; Steve Zerlin: bass; and Samrat Kakkeri: tabla. Presented by Bright World Arts.

Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: 8572 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90069 (map)
Suggested donation: $20

Call 310-358-0555 for more information or to reserve.

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This audio clip is from the CD, What Is Your Intention?. This talk was originally published in Chapter 6 of the Love Ananda-Gita.

Avatar Adi Da describes the three options of human destiny: one can reinforce one's present existence in gross (physical) form; one can go beyond gross existence into subtler dimensions of existence; or one can transcend conditional existence altogether, in the Great Process of seventh stage Divine Self-Realization. He suggests that most people (and most devotees) are opting (generally unconsciously) for the first (and lowest) option.

For those who discover the heart-impulse to the Great Process, Avatar Adi Da offers Graceful Means — but, He clarifies, a most intensive ego-transcending process will be required of such devotees, a constant relinquishment of identification with the separate self.

The talk, What Is Your Intention?, is also available on the DVD, The Commitment to Real-God Realization. A video clip from that DVD is available here.

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Adi Da talks about purifying forms of the self-contraction which keep one from being aware of the Divine Condition.

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Adi Da talks about the early phase of sadhana: taking on life conditions.

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Adi Da talks about the listening process, and the use of various means for self-reflection (the Teaching, the disciplines, reflection by others), so that the listening process can culminate in hearing or fundamental self-understanding (and the transition to level 1.3 of the Way of Adidam).

Note: In this clip, Adi Da refers to the practice of self-inquiry, which is no longer a part of the practice of Adidam.

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Adi Da talks about right life and disciplines in the context of the Way of Adidam.

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"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

© 2012 Dancevert

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Monthly, twenty-four hour Fire Pujas are held at the Hermitages, Sanctuaries, and regional centers of Adidam to celebrate Holy Days, Events and Gifts given by Adi Da Samraj. The Fire Puja in this video clip was held at the Fire Keeper site at Da Love-Ananda Mahal, in Kauai, Hawaii.

Tags: Fire Puja   Da Love-Ananda Mahal   Kauai   Hawaii   Celebration   Sanctuary  

Devotee Theo Cedar Jones (frontman, guitarist and lyricist of the rock group, Swaybone) sings his song, "Avataric Master" (to the tune of The Who's "Pinball Wizard") at Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California.

Darshan of Adi Da.

[Note: At the end of the video, the viewer is directed to a site, karmafree.com — this site no longer exists.]

Music is Ray Lynch, "Drifted in a Deeper Land", from his album, No Blue Thing; and Ray Lynch, "The Temple", from his album, The Sky Of Mind.

In the background is a recording of Adi Da reciting from the Lion Sutra.

Tags: Darshan   Ray Lynch   Sacred Sighting  

The opening reception for the Transcendental Realism exhibit of Adi Da's Image-Art at the LA Contemporary Gallery in August, 2008.

Opens with an interview with art critic Peter Frank.

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The opening reception for the Transcendental Realism exhibit of Adi Da's Image-Art at the LA Contemporary Gallery in August, 2008.

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Steve Alexander describes his experiences of Huichol shamanism (while in his twenties), and his aspiration to become a shaman. Then, while on a Huichol pilgrimage in Mexico, "everything that could possible go wrong, did". For a "suburban kid from Los Angeles" it was like "trying to put on someone else's shoe".

Steve returned to focus on his university education in fine art. All the while, an awareness of a Divine Presence in his heart was growing. He describes how he cultivated his relationship with that Presence, even as he became increasingly aware of his own egoity and the ways it would tend to shut down that Presence.

Steve describes how his formal relinquishment of Huichol shamanism opened the door to the intensification of that Presence, and ultimately, to his devotional relationship with the human form of that Presence: Adi Da.

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