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Love and Sex in the 1960svideo
part 2 of Readings from Tasting The Moon

poster: Tastingthemoon
speaker: Meg Fortune McDonnell
length: 07:35
date added: April 7, 2012
language: English
views: 13607; views this month: 18; views this week: 4
Devotee Meg Fortune McDonnell reads from her book, Tasting the Moon: Adventures in the Meaning of Life. This story is excerpted from the chapter titled "On the Road," which goes on to describe the ferment of the sexual revolution, beat poetry, living theater, and alternative lifestyles of the early 1970's.

Music courtesy of Naamleela Free Jones, from her CD, Eyes In Other Worlds.
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Meg Fortune McDonnell   Tasting the Moon   On the Road   devotee book  

The Five Reality-Teachingsvideo
poster: 2012spirit
length: 06:26
date added: July 3, 2010
language: English
views: 11093; views this month: 21; views this week: 6
One of the core practices of The Transcendental Spiritual Way of Adidam in relationship with His Divine Presence Adi Da Samraj. Part of "The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries", in Part 11 of The Aletheon. The musical recitation appears on the CD, The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries.
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Reality-Teachings   The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries   Aletheon   CD  

The Sunshine Makersvideo
poster: frizz lefryd
length: 07:43
date added: May 8, 2010
language: English
views: 10690; views this month: 52; views this week: 7
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."
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cartoon   animation  

Image-Art Testimonial: Stanley Hastingsvideo
part 12 of A Tribute to the Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj

poster: AdiDaVideos
speaker: Stanley Hastings
length: 25:06
date added: March 31, 2015
event date: November 29, 2009
language: English
views: 10495; views this month: 45; views this week: 9
This video appreciation of Adi Da's Image-Art begins with a testimonial from devotee Stanley Hastings, who grew up in the Adidam community and is the Co-Director of Da Plastique (the group that presents Avatar Adi Da's Art to the public), and who worked with Adi Da on His Divine Image-Art.

Then, at 9:34, we hear various art professionals express their appreciation of Adi Da's Image-Art.

This is followed (at 13:14) by a slideshow of photos drawn from some the Exhibitions of Adi Da's Image-Art, from 2001-2009.

The video concludes (at 18:58) with a slideshow of photos of Adi Da creating His Image-Art from 1998-2008. Background music is Naamleela Free Jones, "I Served to Priest the Pharaohs", from her album, Eyes In Other Worlds.

This video is an excerpt from Second Evening: Track 11 on the DVD, A Tribute to the Life and Work of His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj. More than 7 hours long, this Tribute DVD was filmed on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, when devotees, family, and friends of Adi Da Samraj gathered at Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji (Adi Da's principal Hermitage), to acknowledge Adi Da as the Divine in human form, to praise His Greatness, and to express their heart-felt gratitude for the Blessings they have received from Him.

A list of all the tracks on this DVD can be found here.
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image-art   Stanley Hastings   Mahasamadhi   Tribute   DVD  

Adi Da's Divine Life and Work: Ruchiradama Nadikantavideo
part 1 of A Tribute to the Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj

poster: AdiDaVideos
speaker: Ruchiradama Nadikanta
length: 25:39
date added: November 3, 2012
event date: November 28, 2009
language: English
views: 9998; views this month: 53; views this week: 15
An overview of Adi Da's life and work by Ruchiradama Nadikanta, a long-time devotee. She is a member of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order, the order of fully renunciate practitioners in Adidam.

Excerpt from First Evening: Track 2 on the DVD, A Tribute to the Life and Work of His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj. More than 7 hours long, this Tribute DVD was filmed on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, when devotees, family, and friends of Adi Da Samraj gathered at Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji (Adi Da's principal Hermitage), to acknowledge Adi Da as the Divine in human form, to praise His Greatness, and to express their heart-felt gratitude for the Blessings they have received from Him.

A list of all the tracks on this DVD can be found here.
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Leela   Ruchiradama Nadikanta   Mahasamadhi   tribute   DVD  

You Can't Get There From Herevideo
Episode 3 of The Radical Truth Video Series

poster: AdidamVideos
length: 07:36
date added: January 28, 2009
language: English
views: 9790; views this month: 20; views this week: 2
In this discourse, Adi Da Samraj suggests that the Way He offers is not based on this assumption of separate self, but rather identification with that that is transcendent from the body-mind, the Divine Self-Condition.

The devotee asking the question of Adi Da was a former student of Zen Buddhism, so in this discourse Adi Da refers to some metaphors that are part of the Zen Buddhism Tradition.

The excerpt is from the DVD, Human History Is One Great Tradition. Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Chinese, Japanese, and Hebrew. A CD version is also available.

This talk excerpt is followed by a clip of Darshan of Adi Da (at 6:21).
tags:
Darshan   DVD   CD   Adi   Da   Samraj   Video   Avataric Discourse   Radical Truth Video Series   Spiritual-Master   Happiness   Divine   Self   Transcendence   sixth stage traditions  

Confessional Poems of Liberation and Loveaudio
podcast 14 of The Radical Truth Audio Series

poster: AdidamPodcasts
length: 20:50
date added: October 5, 2010
event date: 1976
language: English
listens: 9291; listens this month: 13; listens this week: 1
Adi Da Samraj communicates his "Bright" Realization and the purpose of His liberating work through poems He wrote between 1971 and 1976, published in the book, Crazy Da Must Sing.

On August 12, 1982 (two weeks after writing the last poem), Adi Da read aloud the collected poems from Crazy Da Must Sing to a group of His devotees in a single session. His recitations of some of those poems are included in this podcast. A recording of the entire occasion (with His reading of all the poems) is available on this CD from the Dawn Horse Press.
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Radical Truth Audio Series   poem   poetry   Crazy Da Must Sing   CD  

Divina.com Trailervideo
poster: FlorenceDanceCompany
length: 15:04
date added: November 19, 2010
event date: July 2010
language: English
views: 8887; views this month: 42; views this week: 4
A promotional video from The Florence Dance Company showing Divina.com, a work presented in Italy at the Bargello Museum in Florence, in July, 2010. An expanded group of the Florence Dance Company's principal dancers perform a dance based on Dante Alighieri's 700 year-old epic literary masterpiece, "La Divina Commedia" (The Divine Comedy). Choreographed and directed by Keith Ferrone and Marga Nativo, the dance takes place in front of a monumental multimedia display of the breakthrough (and sometimes animated) digital art of Adi Da Samraj. All of this is accompanied by live musical performances from master Florentine pianist, Stefano Maurizi, and the electronic musical mastery of Maurizio Fasolo, and Enzo Regi (who lead the European underground electronic group, Pankow). Voice in song by Hélène Tavernier, guitar Lorenzo Castiglia. Piano preludes introducing each part are composed and performed live by Naamleela Free Jones.
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Dance   Keith Ferrone   Maurizio Fosolo   Stefano Maurizi   Dante   Image-Art   Florence Dance Company   Bargello Museum   Naamleela Free Jones   Helene Tavernier  

The Essence of the Way of Adidamvideo
poster: AdiDaVideos
length: 05:39
date added: October 30, 2012
event date: April 12, 2004
language: English
views: 8711; views this month: 43; views this week: 11
Adi Da describes why conventional religious and spiritual approaches fail to fully realize the Divine. He then summarizes, in a simple way, the practice He offers: the Reality-Way of Adidam.
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Avataric Discourse  

Slideshow: Remember The Mysteryvideo
part 8 of A Tribute to the Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj

poster: adidatribute
length: 04:35
date added: July 6, 2011
language: English
views: 8618; views this month: 36; views this week: 4
Slideshow showing Adi Da's relationship with children, with images/words from His book for children (and adults): What, Where, When, How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy.

Soundtrack is Ray Lynch, "What To Remember To Be Happy", from his album, Truth Is The Only Profound.

This video is an excerpt from Second Evening: Track 6 on the DVD, A Tribute to the Life and Work of His Divine Presence, Adi Da Samraj. More than 7 hours long, this Tribute DVD was filmed on the occasion of the first Anniversary of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, when devotees, family, and friends of Adi Da Samraj gathered at Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji (Adi Da's principal Hermitage), to acknowledge Adi Da as the Divine in human form, to praise His Greatness, and to express their heart-felt gratitude for the Blessings they have received from Him.

A list of all the tracks on this DVD can be found here.
tags:
Mystery   children   tribute   Ray Lynch   DVD  

In The Time Of Light (Naamleela Free Jones, 2012)audio
part 7 of Music from the Ballet, Not-Two Is Peace

poster: DawnHorsePress
length: 01:29
date added: December 7, 2012
language: English
listens: 8588; listens this month: 30; listens this week: 5
Excerpts from Naamleela Free Jones's CD, In The Time Of Light. A musical celebration of light and peace, just in time for the Season of Light-In-Everybody!

On July 22 and 23, 2012, the Florence Dance Company presented a multimedia spectacle entitled Not-Two Is Peace. The performance at the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy brought together image-art by Adi Da Samraj, original ballet by the Florence Dance Company, and live music — a dynamic exploration of the principles of world peace and prior unity as described in Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace.

Part Two of the performance featured music for solo piano, composed and performed by Naamleela Free Jones, and presented here in this commemorative recording. The CD also features photographs from the performance as well as the city of Florence.
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Naamleela   music   CD   peace   image-art   Florence Dance Company  

Sacred Offering: a Celebration of Music and Art, to benefit Naitauba, Fiji: July 17, 2010video
poster: FacingEast108
length: 03:01
date added: May 21, 2010
language: English
views: 8579; views this month: 14; views this week: 2
A special benefit concert to provide relief for Naitauba, Fiji, after the recent devastating cyclone.

Saturday July 17th, 2010 7-9:30 pm
St. John's Presbyterian Church
2727 College Avenue
Berkeley, California

Featuring the Facing East group, with John Wubbenhorst (bansuri), Steve Zerlin (bass), Rishabh Dhar (packhawaj), Kit Walker (keyboards), and Samrat Kakkeri (tabla). Also music from Adi Da's daughter, Tamarind Free Jones (vocal), and a performance by Peter van Gelder (sitar) and Tim Witter (tabla).

There will also be a showing of the Divine Image-Art of Adi Da Samraj, accompanied by group improvisations from the musicians.
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Facing East   Image-Art   John Wubbenhorst   Steve Zerlin   Rishabh Dhar   Kit Walker   Tamarind Free Jones   Peter van Gelder  

The Grace Of Sufferingvideo
poster: filmco24
length: 07:24
date added: January 28, 2009
event date: 1976
language: English
views: 8210; views this month: 16; views this week: 6
The full talk is available as Volume 2 of the 25th Anniversary DVD Series published by the Dawn Horse Press.

This is a beautiful talk by Adi Da. But it IS very compressed, making quite a few points in a short space, and depending to a significant degree on a familiarity with Adi Da's spiritual teaching. Here are some notes that may help.

Throughout the talk, the technical term, "sadhana" (spiritual practice), is used.

Genuine spiritual practice is not about belief systems, mere rituals, or a little "peace of mind", but rather about actually locating the Divine, through the tangible Transmission of the Spiritual Master.

After a recent illness, a devotee mentions to Adi Da that he notices how the physical suffering of illness was distracting enough that he was not "able" to find Adi Da's Transmission when he is ill.

Adi Da acknowledges this, and responds with three more general points.

1. The illness didn't "make" the devotee lose the thread of practice; rather, he allowed himself to be distracted from God by the illness. When the devotee gets this, and sees how he himself is "doing" the turning away, he'll be able to "do better next time" by not turning away even when ill.

2. Until Divine Enlightenment — in other words, until there is no limit on one's spiritual practice — sadhana (spiritual practice) is always only reflecting back to devotees the remaining limits in their practice: where they are still turning away from the Divine, where they still need to become responsible for not turning away.

In the beginning, the "turning away" is very "crude": even mere physical suffering is enough to distract one from God. (If we find ourselves saying, "what do you mean, MERE physical suffering?" that definitely identifies us as spiritual beginners! :-) ) But as one grows in practice, and ceases to turn away in such a crude manner (as one becomes a "saint", "yogi", "sage", etc.), one discovers that one is still turning from the Divine at an even subtler level of the being (in the mind, the psyche, etc.)

It is only when that "turning away" has been inspected, understood, and transcended in every dimension of the being that Divine Realization occurs.

In this sense, for the genuine spiritual practitioner, physical suffering — along with every other circumstance that reveals to us our turning away from the Divine — is truly a Grace, enabling us to grow in our practice.

3. Where we are turning away is a reflection of what we are identifying with: the body, the mind, the soul, etc. (For example, if physical illness is enough to distract us from God, then the physical body is what we currently are identified with.) God-Realization only occurs when all "identities" less than God are understood and transcended.

In this sense, "there are no winners in God" — the Way is not about seeking, accomplishment, or winning, but rather about surrender to God, sacrifice of self, and ego-death. There's no "one" left to "win"! But the One Who Remains is perfectly, eternally happy.
tags:
suffering   Divine   DVD  

Global Cooperative Forumvideo
poster: globalpeacecentral
length: 00:51
date added: February 13, 2009
language: English
views: 8201; views this month: 8; views this week: 1
The Global Cooperative Forum.

Wisdom from Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace.
tags:
truth   Adi Da   love   peace   bliss   joy   meditation   unity   prior unity   world friend   beloved   not two is peace  

Mummery Documentary: Part 1video
part 1 of Mummery Documentary

poster: OrpheumTrilogy
length: 14:30
date added: February 11, 2012
event date: January 2000
language: English
views: 8086; views this month: 32; views this week: 10
The First Room Theater Guild presents a one hour documentary on the making of the first full theater production of Adi Da's epic work, The Mummery, in January, 2000, at The Mountain Of Attention.

Appearances in this part
Peter Harvey-Wright (Producer, Actor)
Daniel Hebert (Director, Actor)
Kenneth Welsh (Narrator)
Shawnee Free Jones (Actor)
Damon Schoeffler (Actor)
Ray Lynch (Composer)
Jonathan Condit (Production Consultant)

Documentary production staff
Terence Gross (Award-Winning Director, Videographer)
Roy Dixon (Producer)
Thomas Lefebvre (Production Consultant)
Ed Baker (Technical Support)
Corinne Farago (Sound)
Carmen Morrow (Camera Assistant)
Nick Elias (Additional Camera)
Robert Wessel (Additional Camera)
Chris Gilders (Editor)

Notes
"Beloved" is Beloved Adi Da.
Adi Da has since given "The Mummery" a new name: "The Mummery Book".
tags:
Orpheum   Mummery   theater   theatre  
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