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
Chapter 3
God
There is Only God.
God is not what you think
God to be.
God is!
God is your real condition.
This is the moment of God.
God is the Real
God is Truth and Reality.
God may not be isolated,
Identified in any direction
Outside or inside,
Here or there,
Up or down.
The Divine is of a radical
nature
Realized only in Divine
communion,
Realized as that condition.
The Divine is not apart
And above and elsewhere,
To be attained at another time
In the midst of some condition or
another
That you may or may not
imagine.
That is not the truth.
The truth is the present one,
The absolute Divine
That may not be attained,
That may not be ascended to,
That does not even descend upon
you,
But which is perfectly and
already
Your present condition.
The Divine is unmanifest,
The Divine does not appear as a
piece.
The Divine is absolute,
entire,
All-pervasive, perfect,
Not to be found in some place,
Some thing, some archetype,
Some moment, some experience,
Some state.
The Divine is present,
Not above the world, not to be
found,
Not elsewhere, not grasped, but fallen
into,
Always already existing, of which all
things
Are the manifestation.
Not the Divine who is himself
manifest
In some thing, but of whom all
things
Are the manifestation in the sense
that
They are all his modification.
By the power of that
Divine Consciousness,
Qualities arise,
Modifications of that
Arise.
The Divine is that
From which everything arises,
Of which everything is the
modification,
Than which there is no other,
Which is only.
God is eternally present
And absolutely present.
God is as present
At this moment
As he is ever
Going to be.
The Divine is not elsewhere
Or only deeply within all
this.
This is the Divine.
Only God is full.
And God’s fullness
Is the prior fullness
That is reality itself.
Fullness is only,
Always and already God.
God cannot be contained
Or given,
Nor does he fill
What is empty or unreal.
The true Heart is the one,
Unqualified Reality.
What I call the Heart
Is Consciousness.
It is the formless, absolute,
Omnipresent Divine Reality.
It is very Consciousness,
Absolute Bliss,
Unqualified existence.
It is intuition of unspeakable
God.
The Heart is really present,
Not merely and subtly present.
It is always present
As understanding,
Alive as its radical nature.
The Heart is not deep or
subtle,
But only present and free.
The true Heart
Is the present Heart.
The true Heart
Is the living Heart.
It is the inclusive Heart.
The Heart is always active,
Always accomplishing
The thing that desire always
seeks
But never fully realizes.
There is only
The constant knowledge and
enjoyment
Of the Heart,
Moment to moment,
Through the instant
Of all conditions
Of appearance and
disappearance.
The Heart is absolutely
radical,
Not identical to any thing,
Any dilemma,
Any path or moment in the
path,
Any quality, any experience,
Any limitation whatsoever.
The Heart obliterates
And destroys limitation
All the time.
It is a wildness!
It is Divine madness.
The self, the Heart,
Is perfect madness.
There is not a jot of form within
it.
There is no thing.
No thing has happened.
There is not a single movement
In Consciousness.
And that is its blissfulness.
Truly, the self is mad.
The self is unlearned.
It is utterly mindless,
Utterly free,
Uncontained, unqualified.
Shakti is the Heart itself.
It is truth itself.
It is real-God, God alive.
The Heart is Shakti,
It is conscious force,
It is the fire that is
Reality.
There is only God.
Only God.
There is nothing
That is not God.
Nothing!
God is no alternative.
There is only God.
Only.
Literally there is only God.
There is only one condition,
Only one condition, not many
conditions,
Not a condition of which
This is the manifestation.
There is one condition, absolutely only
one.
How can i say it?
Let me put it this way
There is one condition.
There is absolutely only one
condition,
And that is not other than
Your own Consciousness.
I’m always happy.
There’s only God.
I don’t know why
There’s only God,
It’s just perfectly obvious.
What the else is there?
What else could there possibly
be?
How could there possibly be
Anything else?
Isn’t it obvious?
The point is not,
“are you avoiding
relationship?”
The point is,
There is only God.
The Divine
Is simply the great Reality
Which includes all dimensions
And all worlds.
Obviously that exists.
The Divine is a single,
Absolute intensity and reality
Standing present in the world,
As the very condition
Of the world.
The absolute reality and the
world
Are the same.
The world is the inclusive
reality,
The Divine nature, condition, form and
process.
It includes all that is
manifest,
And all that is unmanifest,
All universes, conditions, being,
states,
And things,
All that is within,
All that is without,
All that is visible,
All that is invisible,
All that is here,
All that is there,
All dimensions of space-time,
And all that precedes
space-time.
All these endless, endless
possibilities
Are being lived by the Divine,
Who is a single, absolute
person.
The world, all of this
manifestation,
Is absolutely the same
As the eternal absolute
reality,
Not other than it,
Not a form of it,
But is exactly that.
The Divine process
Has never been absent
From this world.
The Divine has never withdrawn
From the world
Or from a single living being.
That has never happened.
And it never will happen,
Because the Divine is the always
present
Source of the world,
The always present nature,
condition
And sustainer of the world,
And the absolute destiny of the
world.
The Divine is infinitely present,
perfectly,
And available.
The Divine must be lived, not
sought.
The Divine is the condition of the
world
Not the ultimate hope of the
world.
There is no dilemma in this
world,
No absence of God in this
world,
There is no goal of God in this
world.
The Lord is Lord of this
world.
He is not the Lord of the other world
only,
The Lord is absolutely
The Lord of this world.
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