Orpheus in the Modern World poster: CoaguLAradio length: 60:00 date added: July 4, 2012 event date: October 5, 2011 language: English listens: 6122; listens this month: 53; listens this week: 20
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.)
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).
poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:34 date added: June 23, 2012 event date: January 18, 1973 language: English listens: 5738; listens this month: 45; listens this week: 21
An excerpt from "Money, Food, and Sex", a humorous and penetrating Discourse from the very earliest years of Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Work. Adi Da criticizes the typical conception of Spirituality as having nothing to do with the realities of day-to-day life and says that taking responsibility for money, food, and sex creates the foundation practice of genuine spiritual practice.
A Sudden Door poster: madjym length: 03:22 date added: June 23, 2012 language: English views: 2279; views this month: 12; views this week: 5
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."
In The Field of Sacred Camels poster: SacredCamelGardens speaker: Stuart Camps length: 23:12 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English views: 3445; views this month: 29; views this week: 13
This documentary shows the development of the cooperative process between camels and people that fosters the spiritual growth of both cultures.
Adi Da speaks about the necessity of the Spiritual Master in order to know Truth and to recognize the delusions with which human beings otherwise confound themselves.
Radical Understanding poster: frank marrero length: 09:48 date added: June 10, 2012 language: English views: 1876; views this month: 10; views this week: 3
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.
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.
poster: Tastingthemoon speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell length: 11:59 date added: April 7, 2012 language: English views: 5046; views this month: 31; views this week: 15
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 25:49 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: January 18, 1973 language: English listens: 7055; listens this month: 51; listens this week: 20
In an excerpt from His historic talk from 1972, "Money, Food, and Sex" (now published in My "Bright" Word), Adi Da addresses the dilemma those taking up "spiritual life" encounter when bringing discipline to the areas of money, food, and sex.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 16:10 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 4275; listens this month: 20; listens this week: 8
In this passionate talk, Adi Da speaks to the crisis mankind is in and the urgency for true spiritual practice and the disposition that undermines mankind's assumption of separation.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 17:31 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 4933; listens this month: 29; listens this week: 10
In this podcast, which is drawn from two talks and a recitation from Adi Da's Teaching, Avatar Adi Da brings His unique clarity and offers commentary on the commercialization of religion. He describes how the consumer mentality has infiltrated the area of religion. We hear from the media and the popular psyche that you can buy religion and become "spiritual" without real change — and Adi Da points out how this presumption is false. Adi Da contasts consumer religion with true religion.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 25:21 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 4667; listens this month: 27; listens this week: 9
In this discourse Adi Da calls us to understand the doctrines and spiritual attainments of humankind not as separate traditions or paths but as a whole: a single "Great Tradition". He also urges humankind to transcend merely belief-based religious myths, dogma, and "religious provincialism" which only support egoic separation and conflict.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:29 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 5846; listens this month: 34; listens this week: 10
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.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 12:45 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: 1978 language: English listens: 6226; listens this month: 42; listens this week: 16
In this talk from 1978, Adi Da notes that cultism is rooted in the childish need to believe and to depend on a person, group, myth, or symbol — without assuming responsibility for oneself. He then points out that the tendency to create a cult (of whatever kind) is present in everyone, every level of human society and culture. Adi Da criticizes the tendency toward cultism in the world at large and within His community of devotees. He calls His devotees to understand and relinquish all modes of false and childish dependency on Him as a Spiritual Master, and to make only the most serious and mature approach to Him, for the great purpose of Spiritual Awakening and Divine Enlightenment.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 34:44 date added: March 17, 2012 language: English listens: 5508; listens this month: 36; listens this week: 15
This podcast is drawn from two talks.
In the first excerpt (from 1985), Adi Da describes how the habits of attention, while alive, determine what happens in and after death. He dispels the myth, "When you die, you go to heaven." He gives a clear picture of how the death process works, and why spiritual life is absolutely necessary in serving that process.
In the second excerpt (at 12:55), devotee Carolyn Lee relates a wonderful story from 1983. While in Adi Da's physical Company in Fiji (five hours from any hospital), a devotee has a near-fatal accident. For the full (text) version of this story, read A Devotee's Journey into Death and Back.
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