poster: AdidamVideos length: 07:36 date added: January 28, 2009 language: English views: 9792; views this month: 22; views this week: 4 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.
The Way of Fun poster: DAbase length: 54:00 date added: October 19, 2010 event date: 1987 language: English listens: 7452; listens this month: 19; listens this week: 6 Adi Da's very humorous and wonderfully instructive talk from 1987, The Way Of Fun, about how, after being around His devotees, He "finally got it", that "it's time for the Siddhas" to adapt to modern times, "time for the Truth to change". This new way ("The Way of Fun") — for realizing God without requiring self-transcendence — will "require nothing of you except to really dig those Divine Vibes." The talk is Adi Da's masterful reflection of how the ego is always trying to revise the Way into something that is self-fulfilling rather than self-transcending, something that has no requirements and no difficulties, and that takes no time at all. "So whatever kind of association you have with Me . . . as long as it's fun, you're happy to do it. But if it requires anything of you, your resistance comes on immediately." For more on this theme, read our article, The Way of the Bone.
poster: AdidamPodcasts length: 25:49 date added: March 17, 2012 event date: January 18, 1973 language: English listens: 6995; listens this month: 18; listens this week: 4 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: AdidamVideos length: 07:24 date added: February 1, 2009 event date: October 29, 2004 language: English views: 6442; views this month: 19; views this week: 7 Adi Da Samraj discusses the notion of familiarity and its transcendence in the Way of Adidam.
This is an excerpt from a longer evening of consideration with Adi Da (October 29, 2004), which can be found on the DVD, The Illusion of Familiarity.
poster: CDBaby length: 10:24 date added: January 21, 2017 event date: March 28, 1994 language: English views: 5188; views this month: 26; views this week: 7 An excerpt from "The God Who Truly Is", a talk given by Adi Da on March 28, 1994 at Adi Da Samrajashram. The complete talk can be found on the 2-CD set, Love Is How I Got To Here / The God Who Truly Is.
In this talk, Avatar Adi Da describes the Way of Adidam as the utter transcendence of fear — including fear of being without a body or world (in the Divine State of Infinite, Eternal Love-Bliss). He speaks about finding True God as Source rather than "Creator", and He describes the mechanism that is actually responsible for generating the conditional universe. Adi Da closes with spontaneous and ecstatic poetry, communicating the Sublime Peace that is Realized in His Sphere of Love-Bliss.
This excerpt is track 8 of the CD, Death and the Purpose of Existence, a collection of talks and recitations that exemplify Avatar Adi Da's essential Wisdom-Teaching on death and dying.
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Rolf Carriere on Not-Two Is Peace poster: DaPeace speaker: Rolf Carriere length: 04:22 date added: October 30, 2013 event date: 2013 language: English views: 4565; views this month: 15; views this week: 5 Rolf C. Carriere, former official with UNESCO and currently Senior Advisor to the Non-Violent Peace Force, describes his experience reading Adi Da's books communicating social wisdom, including The Transcendence of Ego and Egoic Society and Not-Two Is Peace. He also describes his conversation with Beloved Adi Da in Cape Cod, Massachusetts (in May, 1996), and his experience of serving as Adi Da's spiritual instrument in the right times and places so as to affect human history in a positive manner.tags: peace
The Gift of Discipline poster: jonobono length: 09:49 date added: June 6, 2010 event date: July 2, 1988 language: English views: 4142; views this month: 11; views this week: 5 Adi Da: "The sadhana of discipline arises in the context of God-Realization. It is a gesture made in that context, in response to the Divine. What is discipline anyway? It is the process of self-transcendence, of breaking through limit."
poster: sourcetemplebrazil length: 10:00 date added: August 16, 2015 event date: 1978 language: Portuguese views: 3442; views this month: 11; views this week: 4 [Contains Portuguese subtitles.]
Adi Da's talk, "The Truth of Our Existence Is Love", was published in Compulsory Dancing.
Adi Da: "There's something you must understand about the circumstances of existence: that they are part of your discipline. They don't arise arbitrarily, even though they may seem to be accidental and unfortunate. The entire universe of experience is contrived. Everything that occurs in your life is a form of test, and is completely appropriate for the stage of your evolution and self-transcendence."tags: portuguese
poster: sourcetemplebrazil length: 10:19 date added: August 20, 2015 event date: 1978 language: Portuguese views: 3358; views this month: 9; views this week: 4 [Contains Portuguese subtitles.]
Adi Da's talk, "The Truth of Our Existence Is Love", was published in Compulsory Dancing.
Adi Da: "There's something you must understand about the circumstances of existence: that they are part of your discipline. They don't arise arbitrarily, even though they may seem to be accidental and unfortunate. The entire universe of experience is contrived. Everything that occurs in your life is a form of test, and is completely appropriate for the stage of your evolution and self-transcendence."tags: portuguese
poster: jef108 length: 10:01 date added: January 1, 2010 event date: 1978 language: English views: 3167; views this month: 6; views this week: 2 Adi Da's talk, "The Truth of Our Existence Is Love", was published in Compulsory Dancing.
Adi Da: "There's something you must understand about the circumstances of existence: that they are part of your discipline. They don't arise arbitrarily, even though they may seem to be accidental and unfortunate. The entire universe of experience is contrived. Everything that occurs in your life is a form of test, and is completely appropriate for the stage of your evolution and self-transcendence."
poster: jef108 length: 10:19 date added: January 1, 2010 event date: 1978 language: English views: 3068; views this month: 4; views this week: 1 Adi Da's talk, "The Truth of Our Existence Is Love", was published in Compulsory Dancing.
Adi Da: "There's something you must understand about the circumstances of existence: that they are part of your discipline. They don't arise arbitrarily, even though they may seem to be accidental and unfortunate. The entire universe of experience is contrived. Everything that occurs in your life is a form of test, and is completely appropriate for the stage of your evolution and self-transcendence."
Losing Sympathy with the Self-Contraction poster: TheBeezone length: 03:21 date added: August 18, 2012 language: English listens: 3064; listens this month: 5; listens this week: 2 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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poster: sourcetemplebrazil length: 10:42 date added: August 20, 2015 event date: 1978 language: Portuguese views: 3028; views this month: 9; views this week: 1 [Contains Portuguese subtitles.]
Adi Da's talk, "The Truth of Our Existence Is Love", was published in Compulsory Dancing.
Adi Da: "There's something you must understand about the circumstances of existence: that they are part of your discipline. They don't arise arbitrarily, even though they may seem to be accidental and unfortunate. The entire universe of experience is contrived. Everything that occurs in your life is a form of test, and is completely appropriate for the stage of your evolution and self-transcendence."tags: portuguese
Adi Da: "The sadhana of discipline arises in the context of the Way of God-Realization. It is a gesture made in that context, in response to the Divine. What is discipline anyway? It is the process of self-transcendence, of breaking through limit."
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