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Self-Understanding poster: frank marrero length: 12:39 date added: November 30, 2012 language: English views: 3161; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 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 comments: 2
Adi Da's Final Darshan poster: frank marrero length: 09:04 date added: August 19, 2012 event date: November 26, 2008 language: English views: 3503; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 The final Darshan given by Adi Da Samraj (on November 26, 2008) before His Divine Mahasamadhi the following day. Accompanied by an excerpt from the talk, Love Is How I Got To Here, from April 16, 1995.tags: MahasamadhiDarshan comments: 1
Ego-Death and the Chaos Of Experience poster: frank marrero length: 56:00 date added: August 6, 2012 event date: January 1, 1979 language: English views: 3497; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 Excerpt from "Ego-Death and the Chaos Of Experience", an early talk from Adi Da, in which He speaks about the true spiritual process of ego death. Adi Da compares this to the mystical and seeking paths of inward or outward experiences in which the seeker is following the path as a reaction to life itself.
The Wrong Side of the Water poster: frank marrero length: 12:14 date added: August 2, 2012 language: English views: 1874; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 Adi Da answers a devotee's question about the process of initiation in His Company and the response that is required.tags: Avataric Discourse
The Streams of Buddhism poster: frank marrero length: 27:28 date added: August 2, 2012 language: English views: 3231; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 A devotee asks Adi Da a question about the various forms of Realization in the Zen tradition. Adi Da replies by giving an elaborate description of the understandings within the Zen and other sixth stage traditions, relative to His schema of the seven stages of life.tags: Avataric Discoursestages of lifesixth stage traditionsBuddhismZen
Adi Da Samraj Talks about His Childhood and Youth poster: frank marrero length: 17:45 date added: July 26, 2012 language: English views: 3299; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 Adi Da Samraj talks about the play of His deeper personality vehicle in the context of His childhood and youth.
poster: frank marrero length: 11:04 date added: July 12, 2012 language: English views: 2988; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 Adi Da Samraj talks about the relationship with Him that develops on the basis of recognition of Him as the Divine Person and responding via the devotional sadhana (practice) He gives.tags: Avataric Discourse
poster: frank marrero length: 10:03 date added: July 9, 2012 event date: 1996 language: English views: 2269; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj addresses a question about the difficulty a devotee is experiencing in his practice. Adi Da points out the Western aversion to being rightly mastered and living by His instruction and how this turns the practice into a "problem".
Midnight Sun or Narcissus? poster: frank marrero length: 47:41 date added: July 8, 2012 event date: 2004 language: English views: 3633; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 This video clip begins with silent Darshan. Then Adi Da addresses a questioner who is taken by a vision of the "Midnight Sun". Adi Da clarifies that the vision was a state that the ego experienced therefore was not the true vision of the Midnight Sun which is itself the egoless condition.tags: DarshanAvataric Discourse
poster: frank marrero length: 34:53 date added: June 28, 2012 language: English views: 2027; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 Adi Da answers a devotee's question about fear, and considers the root of all fear: our self-contracted being.tags: Avataric Discourse
The Realization of That Which Is Always Already The Case poster: frank marrero length: 28:53 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English views: 2512; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 Adi Da answers a devotee's question about forms of mind and emotion that arise in meditation. He speaks of this as the ordeal of sadhana that must be undertaken and persisted in in His Company in order to Realize Him.tags: Avataric Discourse
Summary of the Way of Adidam poster: frank marrero length: 12:36 date added: June 17, 2012 language: English views: 2454; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 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
There Is No "I" Sitting Here poster: frank marrero length: 06:58 date added: June 17, 2012 event date: July 7, 2005 language: English views: 2100; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 Adi Da talks about His State of Realization - in particular, the total freedom from any thought or "I" associated with His body.tags: Avataric Discourse
Spiritual Masters are THE Historical Source of Revealed Truth poster: frank marrero length: 07:48 date added: June 11, 2012 language: English views: 2445; views this month: 0; views this week: 0 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.tags: Avataric Discourse
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