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Beezone and Adidam Update
Adidam has chosen to withdraw from our 10-year-old dialogue on various materials related to copyrighted content on Beezone. Their withdrawal was not the result of any dispute but rather a sense of completion in their work with me. This completion has given me the freedom to manage Beezone with the mutual understanding gained from a decade-long relationship with Adidam in all its dimensions.
Ed Reither, Beezone
January 31, 2025
of
The Call for Spiritual Leadership
(updated)
The following article emphasizes that only through actual practice of the Way can devotees maintain alignment with the Spiritual Master, who is the Source of the Way of the Heart. True spiritual practice requires self-transcendence in relation to all arising conditions, as opposed to allowing the ego to persist, which leads to conflict, confusion, and chaos. Because of the ego’s tenacious and subversive nature, even in well-intentioned practitioners, the Heart Master has called for mature devotees to lead the Communion to ensure its alignment and effectiveness.
Unlike corporate executives or charismatic religious leaders who rely on strong wills and personality, genuine spiritual practitioners must guide sacred institutions based on spiritual principles rather than conventional power structures. While management expertise is necessary, the primary guiding force must be spiritual understanding.
The article points to Adi Da Himself as the ultimate example of compassion, self-giving, and sacrifice, demonstrating how a true spiritual leader serves others rather than seeking personal gain. A mature devotee, as defined by Adi Da, is one who practices not for personal benefit but for the sake of others, inspiring the same in the community. By aligning with His Transcendental Mood, devotees can genuinely serve one another and remain connected to the living current of the Way.
This article also highlights an every present critical turning point for the Communion and the Community. For the institution to remain authentic while continuing to grow, devotees must take responsibility—both for their individual practice and for the culture of practice as a whole. Irresponsibility and complacency are no longer options; devotees have inherited something of great value and must now learn how to rightly accept, share, and preserve it.
The Way of the Heart presents an immeasurable opportunity in the face of the world’s suffering, but each devotee must make a conscious choice to respond to the Teaching Revelation of the True Heart-Master. The article warns against doubt, complacency, and neglect of the Divine Grace offered through Adi Da’s Incarnation. It calls for devotees to fully embrace the Divine Lover, ensuring that the Great Work continues and flourishes through their active participation, service, and devotion—not just for the present but for all time. – Beezone
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This opinioned essay is Beezone’s attempt to understand the origins and truth about the diffuse, varied,
and impassioned dialogues that circulated in and about the Adidam community in 2019.
It is with this extraordinary context in mind that ALL must confront a sobering reality:
Sixteen years after his Mahasamadhi, the thousands of persons who had the opportunity to see, hear, and be in his company show no real signs of his influence with the world in the radical way Adi Da envisioned.
A Talk by Adi Da Samraj gave after visiting Sri Aurobindo Ashram, a community in Pondicherry, South India, in 1973, adapted by Beezone
“Truth to Power – the only sane, insightful, and meaningful voice I’ve heard amid the cacophony of the post Mahasamadhi mayhem.”
In March of 2006, Adi Da called for the elimination of all such references to wording
– in his literature – that made references to ‘progressive‘ or ‘stages of life.’
“I have been activated for this very purpose, to cause Realization of Me, of My Very Sate,
in the case of devotees of Mine. And to date, this has not occurred in the case of anyone.“
Adi Da Samraj, October 2005
The Communion cannot just open its arms and say, “Look at this loving Master and come and be His devotee.” That point of view is totally inappropriate. It invites cultism and egoic participation. The Communion must present its point of view clearly, clearly describe the Way of the Heart as it is in all its stages, and help people to understand the limitations that necessarily exist in someone who first expresses an interest in the Spiritual Way, help people to understand that basically they are not yet ready for the Spiritual Process, not even really willing to endure what is necessary to enter into the Spiritual Process. – Good Company
The practices of the Way can be engaged by self-possessed people, without insight, as merely mechanical affectations or manipulations of the superficial nervous system, the superficial body and mind. Thus, people can read a lot, chant a lot, make holy gestures to one another a lot, and talk about the Teaching a lot. Still they only exploit the body-mind, although perhaps in a somewhat different way than other people exploit it. Perhaps they are a little more benign, a little more orderly than others who recklessly indulge themselves, but, even so, they are not entering into a dimension or condition of the body-mind that is other than superficial. They are...mechanically repeating a way of religious activities in a context of social membership supporting one anothers illusions.
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