“You had better understand the difference
between getting to know or learning in the sacred manner, in the
Guru-devotee relationship, and getting knowledge in the abstracted,
self-contracted ego-based manner of ordinary
schooling.
If you understand something of that
difference, then you understand, or are further sensitized to, what
you must go beyond in every moment in My Company. You will tend to
use the pattern of ego-learning in your approach to Me. You will tend
to use it, therefore, when you approach My Word, or when you approach
Me in My bodily (human) Form, or listen to Me speak. You will
approach Me in the ordinary, secular manner, the worldly manner, and
it will not serve your Realization… even though you might find
something interesting or entertaining about it. But it won’t serve
the process of your Realization… unless you understand the nature
of Guru-devotion, Guru-bhakti, Guru-bhava.”
Adi Da Samraj – 1996
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Beezone White and Orange Project* is term
used to describe Beezone’s method of studying, assimilating and
disseminating (mostly) the teachings of Adi Da Samraj. The term is based
on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Blue and Brown
Books. The Blue and Brown Books is a
set of notes dictated to Witgenstein’s Cambridge students in
1933-1934. In 1933, shortly after he returned to philosophy, Ludwig
Wittgenstein began to dictate to his students at Cambridge a series
of notes on his revolutionary new ideas “so that they might have
something to carry home with them, in their hands if not in their
brains”. They were never published during his lifetime but were
circulated privately, eventually becoming known as The Blue
Book.
Beezone uses a number of formats for
assembling a project. One method is called “Notes”. In this
approach, Beezone presents an essay or talk directly from Adi Da and
then will write down the highlighted points from the talk or essay
(see
example).
A second format is in ‘thematic’ style.
Beezone will take a ‘theme’ of Adi Da’s teaching and go through
various talks and essays and write down a sentence or two related to
that theme or topic (see
example).
Another form or style Beezone uses is a
‘compilation or remix’. This is a blend of the two other methods. In
this style, Beezone will take some talks and essays based on a theme
(see example). Beezone will then use the ‘cut-up’ method. The cut-up
technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up
and rearranged to create a new version. This method can be traced to
at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late
1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since
been used in a wide variety of contexts (see
example).
Still, yet another form is a ‘derivative’ work,
changing capitalization, parentheticals, and punctuation specific to
Adi Da writing style. For those not familiar with Adi Da’s specific
writing style, please read further here, Adi
Da’s Writing Style. Beezone believes
Adi Da’s style is very difficult for many of its readers to read and
understand. Therefore, as an educational tool Beezone will change and modify
his sentence structure to make it more comprehensible and therefore
accessible for the ordinary reader (see example).
…..
What
happened to Adi Da’s old books on the Beezone?