Have I Said It?
Note to reader:
As a member of Adi Da’s (then Bubba Free John’s) community from about 1973-1975, during which time I lived for nine months in Persimmon, the sanctuary where he lived. My service was to create an index of his early books. I found these writings to be compelling, along with some of the outrageous talks that have not found their way into print. Around his birthday in 1975 (to the best of my recollection), Adi Da was planning on moving with a small group to Hawaii. For that occasion, I arranged a selection of his compelling words by topic (mostly selected from his books) and hand-wrote them in a blank book for his enjoyment. As far as I know, nothing ever came of that compilation. That became Book One of two parts, the second of which I completed some time thereafter. Now through the Internet, I make both parts available to interested readers. These blank books (I made a copy for myself) have been sitting on my bookshelves all this time, and after Adi Da’s passing, it occurred to me that this compilation would be very useful to many readers.
Enjoy,
Ed Hirsch
presenceofone@yahoo.com
Ashland, Oregon
Satsang
Satsang is the Activity and
Communication of Truth.
Satsang is
The real condition.
Satsang is
The activity
And communication
Of truth.
The function of satsang
Is truth.
It is truth.
It is no solution,
No answer,
No thing.
Satsang is the principal
Condition of sadhana.
The entire process of sadhana
Is its realization.
Satsang is truth,
It arrives as truth,
And it functions as truth
In life.
Satsang does not proceed
Toward a goal of truth.
Satsang is truth.
It is the life of truth.
It is the force,
The consciousness
That is truth.
Truth does not
Specially appear
Under the form
Of anything extraordinary
Of fascinating.
It is the most
Subtle communication,
The most
Absolute communication,
The most
Obvious communication,
And its only condition
Is the obvious.
In satsang,
The dharma,
Which is truth itself,
Is communicated
Always perfectly,
Absolutely,
Without limitation.
Always
All of it is given.
The truth
Is fully communicated
In satsang.
It is the perfect condition
Of satsang.
The force
That is in satsang
Is the force
Of reality.
The intensification
Of everything
Is the activity
Of satsang.
Satsang
Is a paradox.
There is a real process,
Which is called satsang.
It is the unqualified
Communication of life.
It is simply unqualified,
Conscious relationship.
Satsang
Is a relationship.
It is obvious.
Satsang is the
Enjoyment of relationship,
Being in relationship.
Satsang is the meditation.
That is the real condition.
That is the realization.
That is perfect enjoyment.
Satsang is the discovery,
Satsang is the realization.
Satsang is understanding.
It is meditation,
It is truth,
It is enjoyment,
It is humor.
It is the principle of life.
Satsang is only force,
intensity,
It is one!
The absolute vision
Is communicated in satsang
All the time!
Satsang itself
Is the absolute vision!
It is above your heads!
Just sit up
A little straighter!
God is the
Entire principle of this work.
There is absolutely
No limitation
In the principle of this satsang.
Only the divine
Is active in this work.
The divine person,
The lord,
Is the eternal siddha,
The master of this yoga.
He is the revealer
And the power
Which fulfills this satsang.
The communication of satsang
Is the communication
Of that very one,
That intensity,
That absolute
Existing one.
The lord is the fundamental
Condition communicated in
satsang
With the man of understanding.
From the beginning,
Not merely at the end,
Truth is the condition
Of this process.
Satsang is your condition
In the worlds.
It is the true nature
Of your birth.
It is the God-given form
And real destiny.
The assumption of limitation
Is not the nature
Of this satsang.
In this satsang,
Your perfection,
Your real condition,
Is assumed,
The divine nature of this life
Is assumed, lived and known.
Satsang is the dream
Wherein the man of
understanding
Appears.
Satsang is
Attention to the guru
As guru,
Attention to the guru
As the manifest agent
Of the very divine,
Attention to the guru
And through the guru
To the divine,
The absolute divine,
The absolute intensity
Of real-God.
Satsang is not simply
A common relationship
Between a teacher and a
disciple.
Fundamentally, it is
The intuitive enjoyment
Of the absolute divine.
Satsang is
Absolute attachment
To the guru in God.
It is maddening attachment,
Love of the guru
That distracts one
From the whole course
Of conventional life.
Satsang is humor,
Delight.
The truth
Is the condition of satsang
That must be realized
In every single moment.
That constant realization
Is happiness.
When satsang
Becomes your condition,
Every moment
Becomes the spiritual event.
Not a breath is spent
Outside of satsang
Once it begins.
Freedom always already
Is the case.
Thus, freedom is enjoyed
Where truth
Suddenly comes alive.
Mortal laughter
Does not change
The condition of men,
Apart from the creation
Of temporary amusement.
But divine humor, truth,
Delights men
And utterly transforms
Their lives.
Everything is satsang.
There is only satsang.
It is eternal.
But after this
Is all seen to be so,
It must be lived.
Satsang must begin.
Satsang must be enjoyed
As the condition
Of life.
Satsang
Is the great condition,
The only condition.
It is always
Your condition,
But it is not lived.
It is denied,
Forgotten,
Resisted.
The principle
Of ordinary life
Is entirely, continually
Antagonistic to satsang.
You can see it
In yourself-
How do you live satsang
From hour to hour?
You don’t…
Satsang is a
Radical condition
And it does require
Everything of you.
It does require you
To absolutely lose face.
Truth must become
The point of view.
Require truth.
Don’t be cool
To a heart
That’s true.
Come to satsang
With real need,
Not with anything
To defend.
Everything
A man brings
To the heart
To defend
Is destroyed.
Everything
He defends
Is undermined.
Satsang contains
And communicates itself
As a demand.
Every moment
Is a demand
For attention.
What arises is never
The point,
But it is always
Only a paradox
And a test,
A form of the always
Prior demand,
Which is itself
The divine person,
The maha siddha,
The siddha-guru.
Consciousness is the demand,
And that
Has nothing to do
With the things
That arise.
Satsang is a fire!
This communion
Is not a place
Where we talk “philosophy.”
There is a living force
Enacted here.
It is a living
Consciousness.
This sadhana
Requires everything
Of you.
You must do
This sadhana
With great intensity.
I expect each one
To maintain
This satsang
Constantly.
The best thing
A man can do
Is spend his time
In satsang.
The quicker it becomes
In you,
The more intelligent,
The more “like” reality
You become.
If we were not here
In satsang together,
What would we be doing?
What is the alternative?
What’s on television tonight?
What could you possibly do?
All your alternatives
Are brief.
In satsang
Nothing is given.
Only that relationship
Is offered.
Nothing is offered
But satsang.
Nothing is given
But that relationship,
Because it is truth.
Satsang does not
Fulfill your search.
It is absolutely impossible
To believe
That there is only God,
To assume it,
To think it,
To gather it.
You have nothing
To resort to
Other than that
Real life
Which is satsang.
Satsang
Is the same
For everyone.
It is
Equally available
To all.
Live this satsang,
Enjoy this satsang.
For those
Who live satsang,
Satsang is sufficient.
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