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We invite you to participate in a profound transformation at the depth of life and consciousness — a transformation made possible by the Divine Appearance and Self-Revelation of Adi Da Samraj. Come and experience His Blessing-Transmission, His Avataric Teachings, and His Divine Image-Art. Feel and receive Adi Da’s Spiritual Presence, which is powerfully communicated via Sacred Sightings of Him (recorded during His physical Lifetime). Enjoy the live Sacred Offerings of gifted devotee musicians who serve the process of retreat with keen sensitivity and feeling.

For more about this retreat, click here.

Narrator: Anthony Costabile
Videographer: Matt Braithwaite

Tags: European Danda   retreat  

Adi Da teaches children all about the Mystery (aka Divine Ignorance) beyond knowledge and death, expanding their awareness beyond the materialistic. He invites us all to enter into a relationship with Him through the Mystery.

Recitation is from Adi Da's book, What, Where, When, How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy. Recitation is by a 7-year old child, accompanied by Ray Lynch on piano, from Ray's album, Truth Is The Only Profound.

Tags: Mystery   children   Ray Lynch  

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  

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.

Tags: CD   DVD  

"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

Tags: dance   Susana Weingarten  

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  

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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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.

Tags: leela  

Art Panel: Orpheus in the Modern World (October 5, 2011) — The later work and aesthetic philosophy of Adi Da Samraj was the subject of discussion between Los Angeles art writers and those close with the late artist and spiritual teacher. (This is a recording of first hour of the hour and 15 minutes panel.)

Moderator: Peter Frank

Panelists:
Bill Bush (Founder of Artweek.LA)
Shana Nys Dambrot (writer/curator)
Gary Coates (author, professor of Architecture at Kansas State University)
Stanley Hastings (Co-Director of Da Plastique)

Recorded by CoaguLAradio, as Episode 25 ("Aesthetic Ecstasy") of their "Beer & Tall Buildings" series.

This Art Panel was part of the exhibit, "Orpheus and Linead: Solo Exhibition" at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills (September 8 - October 8, 2011).

Tags: Image-Art  

A dance that creatively develops the meaning of Satsang. Dedicated to Adi Da.

Choreographers/Dancers: Susana Weingarten and Tom Evert
Music: Phillip Glass and Ravi Shankar
Voiceover: Adi Da
Costume Design: Janet Bolick
"Midnight Sun" Set Design: Molly Watson

© 2012 Dancevert

Tags: dance   Susana Weingarten   Tom Evert  

"Ego Act" is a dance based on Adi Da's wisdom about the nature of egoity, or, Adi Da describes it, "the fundamental activity of self-contraction, or the presumption of separate and separative existence".

Choreographer/Dancer: Tom Evert
Music: George Crumb (as interpreted by The Kronos Quartet)
Costume Design: Raymond Zander III
Props: Tom Evert
"Midnight Sun" Set Design: Molly Watson

© 2012 Dancevert

Tags: dance   Susana Weingarten   Tom Evert  

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.

From the CD, Money, Food, and Sex / Guru As Prophet. This talk is also published in the book, My "Bright" Word.

For another excerpt from this talk, click here.

Tags: CD  

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."