The Art of Adi Da Samraj: Cenacolo di Ognissanti poster: Daplastique speaker: Dr Christina Acidini, Dr Monica Bietti, Gary Coates, Paula Crema length: 05:41 date added: May 17, 2010 event date: 2008 language: English views: 4889; views this month: 39; views this week: 29
Interviews and overview of Adi Da's solo exhibition at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti in Florence, Italy, in 2008.
Cooperation + Tolerance = Peace poster: sayoh08 length: 08:55 date added: May 15, 2010 language: English views: 4726; views this month: 16; views this week: 8
A slideshow of photographs of Adi Da, accompanied by quotes from Adi Da's wisdom from Not-Two Is Peace about world peace and the establishment of a cooperative world order. Set to the slow movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Created by Dennis Regan.
I Am Always Already Free poster: DawnHorsePress length: 04:40 date added: May 15, 2010 language: English views: 3297; views this month: 19; views this week: 12
"I Am Always Already Free" features an exquisite slideshow of photographs of Avatar Adi Da in the last month of His life.
It is accompanied by recordings of Adi Da speaking of His eventual Passing, quotes from His "first and foremost" book, The Aletheon, and musical offerings.
Adi Da's Image-Art poster: Chandirah length: 01:39 date added: May 12, 2010 language: English views: 2665; views this month: 13; views this week: 6
This is a showcase of a portion of Adi Da's Sacred Image-Art. Adi Da is a very prolific artist, having created well over 70,000 images. This is just a small selection.
Creating Sculptures of Adi Da poster: LarenR speaker: Laren Rackell length: 09:23 date added: May 12, 2010 language: English views: 2072; views this month: 7; views this week: 4
Laren Rackell describes the process of making sculptures of Adi Da.
Sacred Camel Retreats poster: SacredCamelGardens length: 03:41 date added: May 11, 2010 language: English views: 4751; views this month: 22; views this week: 9
Adi Da: "Camels should pervade the Sanctuary."
The Sacred Camel Gardens are offering camel retreats to the public. Enjoy this footage of the camels and of some of the people who have had a chance to visit with them.
[Note: This video was made in 2010, and at 3:15, the video refers to "retreats happening in 2010". Since everything in the video still applies to the retreats currently being offered, and no new video has been created, we felt this one would still be useful.]
The Sunshine Makers poster: frizz lefryd length: 07:43 date added: May 8, 2010 language: English views: 10798; views this month: 69; views this week: 33
One of Adi Da's favorite cartoons, "The Sunshine Makers" is a classic from the golden age of animation. Released on January 11, 1935 (an auspicious day of the year, in the sacred calendar of Adidam), the cartoon was directed by Ted Eshbaugh, the first artist/technician to figure out how to create animated cartoons in color. This restored print is the highest quality available, and is from the DVD, Toddle Tales & Rainbow Parade Cartoons.
"The Sunshine Makers" is the third cartoon in the "Rainbow Parade Series", which was produced by Van Beuren Studios to compete with Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies". The series consisted of 27 full color, animated shorts, and was distributed to theaters by RKO between 1934 and 1936. (You can watch more of these here.)
"The Sunshine Makers" later became a regular on 1950's television, after the sale of RKO's film library. In his book, Of Mice and Magic, well-known film critic Leonard Maltin writes that his childhood (in the 1950's) included "countless viewings" of the cartoon.
"The Sunshine Makers" is also one of Adi Da's favorite cartoons, because of its depiction of Light and Happiness (magnified and spread by the "Sunshine gnomes" in the cartoon) dissolving and outshining the force of egoity (the "gloomies").
In his article, "The Sunshine Makers cartoon from 1935", James Steinberg writes, "Bhagavan Adi Da loved that cartoon! He thought that it showed the simplicity of the argument of the open hand and the closed fist, or that our un-happiness is just something that we presume. Just like He used to tell us when we came to the Mountain of Attention, or came to see Him altogether, that we could 'leave it at the gate'. There is no reason to presume the dilemma in the face of the Divine (or truly altogether). We used to watch 'The Sunshine Makers' cartoon with Him when we had to watch it on a 16mm projector. I saw it multiple times with Bhagavan and He would laugh heartily as it was shown and watch our faces to see our reactions beaming with Happiness. He always used to tell us that we could just 'drop it in the moment' (our self-contraction) and that it was 'just an act'."
Further notes on the cartoon:
* It's a musical! Almost all speech is set to music.
* At 0:43: The "Sunshine gnomes" start their morning with a conscious exercise routine that begins with bowing down to the Transcendental Sun (the source of their sunshine): "Hail, His Majesty, the Sun!"
* At 7:00: When the "gloomies" refuse to "take their medicine", the gnomes force "sunshine" down their throats. In the words of the great Spiritual Master, Sri Ramakrishna: "There are three classes of physicians: superior, mediocre, and inferior. The physician who feels the patient's pulse and just says to him, 'Take the medicine regularly' belongs to the inferior class. He doesn't care to inquire whether or not the patient has actually taken the medicine. The mediocre physician is he who in various ways persuades the patient to take the medicine, and says to him sweetly: 'My good man, how will you be cured unless you use the medicine? Take this medicine. I have made it for you myself.' But he who, finding the patient stubbornly refusing to take the medicine, forces it down his throat, going so far as to put his knee on the patient's chest is the best physician. This is the manifestation of the tamas of the physician. It doesn't injure the patient; on the contrary, it does him good."
I Am the Heart poster: frank marrero length: 00:28 date added: December 6, 2009 language: English views: 3262; views this month: 18; views this week: 6
Three beautiful pictures of Adi Da, accompanied by His reading of His poem, "I am the Heart", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
We Are Waiting poster: frank marrero length: 03:39 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 5915; views this month: 36; views this week: 18
Darshan of Adi Da, accompanied by Adi Da's recitation of His poem, "We are waiting for something to happen to this", from Crazy Da Must Sing.
We are waiting for something to happen to this. Outside the Heart, there is only confusion and fear. All of this has become unnecessary, unequal to the Truth. Knowing this something force of our existence. We think that true appearance is in another drastic place. Seeing this dilemma and the something powerful implied somehow within it and around. There is only in the solution in the satisfactions elsewhere. Unless something happens to all of this.
Therefore, men have tussled with the two hands of adventure. Either to turn an extraordinary something here. Or else to make unusual escapes into another power, another timed, or timeless place. This is the whole account of man.
But there is a possibility between these means. There is another understanding, another adventure. If only we understand the harm in which we act. The origin of all this fearful desperation. The ordinary term in which we view the thing itself. There is a prime dilemma formed within the mind that sees the world and turns away. That turns away and turns within the life, but always turns upon the pivot of a single doubt. Within this doubt, two arms of possibility enlarge the man. One intends the world, intending magnificent life, ending in perfect happiness. One intends another life, more than life itself, beginning and ending in perfect truth. Therefore he sees all things in double terms. In opposites and contradictions, high and low. And he makes final appearance in neither kind. But forever agonizes the play of his dilemma until he dies. This is the kind he seems.
But one who understands, is free of doubt. He sees the world the same. The mind in which he sees the world is single as the Heart. He does not act upon the wheel evolving and involved, two forces on a spike. He always understands the source-ful act that turns men in and out. This is what he always does. But others act upon the thing he understands. Therefore, he is not in trouble. This is the only mood of his adventure. What should he wait to happen? Where should he go? What elsewhere? What event? All the places are a single world for him. Where others go, where others wait is all a single field of single action and no trouble. Therefore, neither high nor low, unmoved from the beginning, not turned, he stands as the Heart. This is understanding. And the image of His life.
poster: realityway speaker: David length: 09:36 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3255; views this month: 12; views this week: 7
In the second part of this two-part series, David continues to tell the story of how he found and became a formal devotee of his Master, Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
poster: realityway speaker: David length: 08:22 date added: September 30, 2009 language: English views: 3022; views this month: 12; views this week: 7
In the first part of this two-part series, David tells the story of recognizing Avatar Adi Da Samraj to be his Master, and then describes the first time he saw Avatar Adi Da.
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