poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:29 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English Adi Da writes: "Adidam is not a conventional 'religion'. Adidam is not a conventional way of life. Adidam is about the transcending of the ego-'I'. Adidam is about the Freedom of Divine Self-Realization. Adidam is not based on mythology or belief. Adidam is a Reality-practice. Adidam is a 'Reality consideration' in which the various modes of egoity are progressively transcended. Adidam is a universally applicable Way of life. Adidam is for those who will choose it, and whose hearts and intelligence fully respond to Me and My Offering. Adidam is a Great Revelation and it is to be freely and openly communicated to all."
This podcast contains excerpts from two talks, in which Adi Da clarifies that the Way of Adidam is based solely on the inherent heart-response to His Transcendental Spiritual State. That heart-response leads to the self-understanding and willingness to take up the real ego-transcending practice.tags: Radical Truth Audio SeriesAdidam
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 22:59 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English 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: 21:13 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English In this talk excerpt, a devotee asks Adi Da about her practice of Adidam as an African-American woman in a predominantly white community.tags: Radical Truth Audio Series
poster: Tastingthemoon length: 06:09 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English 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.
The Form of Whole Bodily Spiritual Practice poster: frank marrero length: 24:57 date added: June 10, 2012 language: English Adi Da talks about how the self-contraction creates the sense of a separate narcissistic 'me' over against everything else; and how this relates to sadhana (ego-transcending practice) in the Way of Adidam.
Radical Understanding poster: frank marrero length: 09:48 date added: June 10, 2012 language: English Excerpts from discourses throughout Adi Da's lifetime in which He explains the term "self-contraction" and the necessity of coming to a full and radical understanding of the action of this mechanism in order to begin true spiritual practice in His Company.tags: self-contraction
Summary of the Way of Adidam poster: frank marrero length: 12:36 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English 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
poster: frank marrero length: 34:53 date added: June 28, 2012 language: English Adi Da answers a devotee's question about fear, and considers the root of all fear: our self-contracted being.tags: Avataric Discourse
poster: SusanaWeingarten length: 10:54 date added: July 1, 2012 language: English "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
Purifying Forms of the Self-Contraction poster: TheBeezone length: 00:25 date added: August 12, 2012 language: English Adi Da talks about purifying forms of the self-contraction which keep one from being aware of the Divine Condition.
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Hearing the Teaching Argument poster: TheBeezone length: 01:38 date added: August 12, 2012 language: English Adi Da talks about hearing the Teaching argument, which is the basis of sadhana and self-understanding.
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Losing Sympathy with the Self-Contraction poster: TheBeezone length: 03:21 date added: August 18, 2012 language: English Adi Da Samraj talks about combining oneself with His Argument to the point where one loses sympathy with the painful self-contraction, and one can see that it is one's own activity, and completely unnecessary. Transcendence of the self-contraction allows one to Realize the Native State of Prior Happiness.
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Escape From the Fear poster: TheBeezone length: 00:37 date added: October 14, 2012 language: English Adi Da on the fear and self-contraction that underlies every moment of egoic life.
Self-Understanding poster: frank marrero length: 12:39 date added: November 30, 2012 language: English Devotee Frank Marrero shares a leela of his time in Adi Da's Company. Many years later, he has come to see that Adi Da was teaching him about self-understanding and samadarshan: "The vision of sameness - a vision that penetrates beyond the apparent differences between beings to their transcendental nature."tags: Frank Marreroleela
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