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Advaita
Vedanta Research Center
– Link
Ajna
Chakra –
by
Swami Nityabodhananda a disciple of Swami
Satyananda Saraswati
Alan
Watts – The Book – Chapter One
Are
There More Fish in the Ocean on a Sunny Day, or on
a Cloudy Day?
Adi Da
Samraj – “The realm of
possibility is infinite. There are endless
conceivable and inconceivable realms of experience
or embodiment that you could be involved in at the
present time. But you are consciously involved only
in this human one. You are involved in this human
embodiment because you have desires”
Ashtavakra
Gita or the Song of
Ashtavakra, – also
known as The Song of the Eightfold Cripple, the
Ashtavakra Gita or the Ashtavakra Samhita scripture
which documents a dialogue between the Perfect
Master Ashtavakra and Janaka, the King of
Mithila.
Attention
and The Feeling of
Relatedness
– Adi
Da Samraj – 1990 – “
Attention, the feeling of relatedness and the
Position of the Witness Consciousness”
Awakening
and Lesser Stages of Life
– “It is not that only those who are in the seventh
stage are enlightened.”
Beezone’s
Daily Readings
– Short. interesting topics and themes related to
practice and education.
Be
Relieved of Your Seriousness
– “We are under the incredibly absurd illusion that
there is an objective world “outside” Consciousness
and there is a ‘me’ inside this body”
Best
thing to do is to be
uncomfortable –
“You cannot avoid that discomfort. It is essential
to your conditional life. You must find it, locate
it, and really use it.”
Beyond
Doubt –
Adi Da
Samraj – “Intelligent
people cannot find God in such a mass of idiocy, so
quite naturally they look for satisfaction
elsewhere.”
Bihar
School of Yoga Magazine
Archive’s –
The
magazine of the Bihar School of Yoga = Great
resource on Yoga
Bliss
Sheath –
From
Science of Soul
“Here
we have to show how the lord of the five sheaths,
Jivatman… abides in the…space of the
heart…”
Bodhisattva
– Trungpa
and Adi Da’s Comments
From
Adi Da and Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche on the nature
of the Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
Vow –
c. 800
C.E. –
Kishitigarbha
Vow Sutra
Bubba
Free John retires – 1976 East West Journal
Article –
American
born guru retires
“Three
days after the full moon in May, while I was
visiting his ashram, then called “Persimmon,” Bubba
Free John returned unexpectedly from an extended
trip to Hawaii.”
Can
the Guru Awaken?
– The
Guru Principle Investigated by Beezone
There
are teachers and there are Gurus. One question
central to the spiritual aspirants sadhana or
spiritual development is: Can the Guru
enlighten?
The
Character of the Liberated
Man –
Crazy
The Yoga-Vasistha –
“Qualities, characteristics and behaviors of a
Liberated Man (or Woman)”
Chögyam
Trungpa Rinpoche
The Chronicles of CTR is a growing online community
with a common passion: the life and teachings of
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
Chogyam
Trungpa’s Oxherding Pictures
– Garuda
(1971)
The
Search for the Bull – The inspiration for this
first step, which is searching for the bull, is
feeling that things are not wholesome, something is
lacking. That feeling of loss produces pain. You
are looking for whatever it is that will make the
situation right. You discover that ego’s attempt to
create an ideal environment is
unsatisfactory.
Complaints
and Problems –
The
abuses and outrageous behaviors of the Guru
Lately
I’ve been reading some of the bulletin boards and
web pages on the Internet that discuss Adi
Da
Consciousness
– A
Beezone Study
What
Consciousness Is
– From The Aletheon, pp. 1531-1549 entilted ‘What
Consciousness Is’.
Conductivity
and the Conscious Process
– A
Beezone study based on the essay
“What Is the Conscious Process”.
Conflicts
– Battles and Wars
– “THAT…scares me. I don’t want to go into
that..the paranoia, discomfort something may be
wrong…the fear of ultimate confusion and despair.
That fear is a constant threat to us.”
Confusion
of Mind and the Brain
– “If we put ourselves into a position to explore
the roots of experiencing, we are going to enter
into a realm of mind in which we realize mind to be
greater than mere daily thinking and social
consciousness”
Consumer
Mentality – There
is no cheap “super-truth” or “clever
method” for “every man”.
Counter-Ego
Effort
– A
Beezone Enquiry
A
Beezone study of the use of the term ‘counter-egoic
effort’ used by Adi Da in his teaching.
Dawn Horse Testament –
Outline
Study Sheet
Chapter
23
Dawn
Horse Symbol
– What
is it’s meaning
Demand of
the Guru – What
is the nature of the demand you make upon your
disciples?
Devatma
Shakti –
Kundalini
Divine
Power. by Swami Vishnu Tirtha Maharaj
Do
Not Misunderstand Me
– Adi
Da Samraj
“Yes! There is no
religion, no Way of God, no Way of Divine
Realization…”.
Do
Not Reduce This Institution to a Religion
Business
– Adi
Da
a talk
by Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda – October 18,
1981.
Dealing
with Existence as it Truly
Is – You do have to
do this sadhana in the context of your
ordinariness
Do
You Like Your Experience?
“Do you like the experience you have, your
experience altogether? Are you just
coping?”
Double
Bind –
unpublished
notes 1971 –
Adi Da
Samraj
“One
who is beginning to understand first recognizes
that he (she) is suffering, fundamentally unhappy,
unsatisfied, and chronically in double-bind that
cannot finally be consoled.”
Doubt
– As Mind, thought and self-contraction.
Doubting
Mind – Doubt is a
very interesting mental activity. It can be helpful
when judging a situation that may seem dubious but
when it’s chronic and pervasive it can be
damaging.
Drugs
and Entheogens –
“To
take a drug does not yield any great capacity for
recognition. Neither does conventional meditation
or the shocks of life.”
East
West Journal 1976 Article
– American
born guru retires
“Three
days after the full moon in May, while I was
visiting his ashram, then called “Persimmon,” Bubba
Free John returned unexpectedly from an extended
trip to Hawaii.”
Ego
as Self-Contraction
– A
Selections from talks and essays
Enlightenment
and the Transformation of Man – 1983
Ego
Society and Peace –
Adi
Da’s Appeal for World Peace
“Human
beings in this “late-time” (or
“dark” epoch) live in the
“samsaric” (or un-Enlightened) world of
egoic society—and this is why the signs of the
times are so profoundly negative.”
Embracing
Reality –
Brad
Reynolds
Brad’s
book on Ken Wilber.
End
of Adi Da’s Teaching
– Adi
Da – 1996 –
“it was obvious…there was nothing more I
could..teach”
Esoteric
Christianity
–
by
Norman D. Livergood – ” About 25-30 C.E. a mystical
teacher named Jesus began to tell
people….”
Essential
Matter
– Questions
“I hate
to tell you this, but when you really get down to
the core of the Teaching you begin to realize that
you are not going to be given any answers at
all”
Establishing
Firm Intimacy – If
you are ever going to establish a firm intimacy
with anyone, you must deal with all these emotions
and become emotionally clarified.
Everybody
thinks that God is taking care of
everything –
Everybody thinks that God is taking care of
everything. There is no such God. God Transcends
everything. God is to be Realized. God is not your
parent.”
Evolution
– elections on the Nature of
‘Evolution’ –
Adi
Da’s writings and talks.
Failure
of Adaptation and Function
Life – “The roots
of human failure to adapt and master functional
life are in the childhood of men and
women.”
Finding
a order order of men (and
women)
– Knee
of Listening – chapter 20
“I am
interested in finding men who are free of every
kind of seeking, attendant only to understanding,
who will devote themselves to the intentional
creation of life in the form and logic of reality
rather than the form and logic of
Narcissus.”
First
Truly Human or Humanizing Stage of
Development
– Adi Da Samraj – “The
actual or Realized Truth is not itself an answer to
the emotional dilemma of our existence”
Five
Points of View –
Adaptation
of Adi Da’s The Five Possible Orientations (or
Points of View)
“There
are only five possible orientations, each built
upon the one immediately previous to
itself:”
Five
Skandhas –
Chogyam
Trungpa
“To
understand more precisely the process of confirming
the solidity of I and other, that is, the
development of ego, it is helpful to be familiar
with the five skandhas, a set of Buddhist concepts
which describe ego a five-step process.”
Frontal
Yoga – Outline
Study Sheet
Chapter
23
Frontal Yoga – What is it?
The
Frontal Yoga
– Practice
within the first three stages of life – complied by
Beezone
Fundamental
Discipline of Love is to…
– “Fundamental to the discipline of love is letting
go. You are practicing attachment and using it as
an excuse to immunize yourself. The discipline of
love requires letting people go. I do not mean
letting them disappear.”
Future
of Spiritual Practice
– “Sadhana or spiritual practice begins in that
place where you make this knot, the self
contraction, this fundamental
discomfort.”
Gandhi
– Seven
Sins –
Wealth without work….
Get
Serious About Your Suffering
– “You must get serious about your own suffering
and the suffering of all other beings, and about
the stupidity of all movements on Earth, whatever
they are called – political, economic, religious.
There is no siddhi in them, no blessing, no unique
capability invested in the world.”
Gist
of Hinduism –
1897 –
Swami Vivekananda
“The
Vedas do not owe their authority to anybody, they
are themselves the authority, being eternal — the
knowledge of God”
Godavari
Mataji –
Devotee
(Ma) of Upasani Baba Maharaj
“In 1941 Sati Godavari Mataji assumed the mantle of
her Guru Shri Upasani Baba Maharaj with the
strength, simplicity and dignity of a realized
being”
Grand
Inquisitor
–
Fyodor
Dostoevsky
“My story is laid in Spain, in Seville, in the most
terrible time of the Inquisition, when fires were
lighted every day to the glory of God, and ‘in the
splendid auto da fe the wicked heretics were
burnt.”
Guru’s
Demand – What
is the nature of the demand you make upon your
disciples?
Hard
Earth and Stone at my Foot
– Franklin
Jones (Adi Da Samraj) 1969 –
“I
resist and take flight from the material and life
condition. The crux of the spiritual life for me
now is to see and embrace this mode of reality. The
material realm is relentless in its
lawfulness.
Have
I Said It?
–
Ed Hirsch – from
about 1973-1975, I lived on Persimmon. I was
indexing Bubba’s works. I found these writings to
be…
Hearing
– Beezone
study
Hearing
is No Small Matter
– Beezone
study
Hearing,
Understanding and Sadhana
– Beezone
study
Hearing,
Until the Argument Makes its Point in You, Practice
Cannot Begin
Heart
Center –
The
Bliss Sheath
Science
of Soul – A practical exposition of ancient method
of visualization of Soul (Atma Vijnana), Swami Vyas
Dev Ji
Heart
is the Hole in the Donut
– Adi
Da Samraj, 1976 – How
did I get involved in this
anyway…”.
Here
Lies The Heart
– by
Mercedes D’Acosta
“At one
of these dinners I met Paul Brunton who had written
a book called A Search in Secret India. When I read
this book it had a profound influence on me. In it
I learned for the first time about Ramana Maharshi,
a great Indian saint and sage.”
High
History of Buddhism
– Rick
Fields – Soma and Buddhism
“..As
Hajicek-Dobberstein says, “Some contemporary non
orthodox Buddhist ‘alchemists’ find precedents in
Mahasiddhas Nagaijuna and Aryadeva, who agreed, We
need to eat the alchemical medicine. . . Orthodox
scholars may object but they can no longer ‘Just
say No.”
Highest
Form of Seeking
– Beezone
adaptation
– From the early writing of Adi Da Samraj (Franklin
Jones).
How
Should Your Create Your Life
– Love Is Sufficient Wisdom
Humble
One-Liners –
Adi Da
Samraj – “Life is
suffering, and then there is God” – “That is one
way of putting it, in your humble one-liner
fashion.”
“I
am not here to fight with
you” – Adi Da: “You
should also understand that I am not here to fight
with you for any cause whatsoever. Whatever you
choose, you are completely free to choose, and that
is all there is to that.”
Identification,
Differentiation and Desire
– Early
teaching
Identifying
with Consciousness and Being
Consciousness – Can
you think or imagine your way to enlightenment? Can
you seriously investigate the nature of reality and
discovery its Truth (or falsehood)?
Individuation
as Politics – So
the politics of individuation is, apart from some
of its merits one might presume, basically the
politics of egoity. And it glorifies egoity.
Innermost
Essence –
Maha
ati – Trungpa
“The
maha ati [Tib.: dzogchen], which is beyond
conceptions and transcends both grasping and
letting go, is the essence of transcendental
insight. This is the unchanging state of non
meditation in which there is awareness but no
clinging. Understanding this, I pay ceaseless
homage to the maha ati with great
simplicity.”
Integral
Therapy –
D.
B. Sleeth
“Mindfulness and “Radical” Non-Dualism
and Their Relevancy for Clinical
Practice”
Internet
Source of Sacred Texts
– Link
Intimate
Meandering –
Morgan
Zo-Callahan & friends – Hospice
care, western and eastern spirituality, Spiritual
Exercises of St. Ignatius; taking action, making a
difference in the world and working with the paths
of teaching and creativity.
Intuition
in the teaching of Adi Da
– Beezone
Compliation
Jamgon
Kongtrul the Great – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s
Guru
Karma
– Reginal
Ray – Shambhala Sun
“Buddhism
highlights two types of karma.”
Katha
Upanishad –
One of
the older, mukhya “primary” Upanishads commented
upon by Shankara.
“Knowing well that
sacred fire which leads to heaven. I will explain
it to you. Listen and learn from me.”
Ken
Wilber –
Letters and links.
Key
(The) – “You must
find out that even the whole, even the ‘I’ as the
body is self-contraction. That’s the first step.
That’s the great discovery.”
Killing
the Tiger –
“Something in us wishes to remain a child, to be
unconscious or, at most, conscious only of the ego;
to reject everything strange, or else subject it to
our will…”
The
Knee of Listening –
Prologue
Knot
of Self-Contraction
– 1996
“It’s
not merely a sensation you’re experiencing. It is
an act you are performing. You are doing the
self-contraction. It is not merely happening to
you.”.
Krishnamurti
– On The Teaching of J.
Krishnamurti
– The
Dawn Horse Magazine – 1975
Lankavatara
Sutra –
a
principle text of Mahayana Buddhism
The
Doctrine of Mind-Only – The Conception of No-Birth
– The Triple body of the Buddha -The
Tathagata
Leela
– Andrew Johnson
“The first time I saw Master Da Free John was in
1974 at an incredibly powerful…”
Lineage – The
Message of the Practice
Lineage –
1975
talk by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche on ‘Line of the
Trungpa’s’ – Adi Da’s Comments
Published
in The Vajradhatu Sun – 1990..
‘Listening’
and the Fundamental Argument of Adi
Da –
Beezone
Study
Listening
Process
–
Becoming responsible for the self contraction is
what the listening-hearing process in My Company is
about.
Locating
the Source – To
understand what Adi Da means when he uses the word
‘locate’ in conjunction with the references to
Himself and/or Reality there can be said to be a
‘process’ in it’s fuller comprehension.
Loss
of Realization –
Dialogue
with Adi Da Samraj
Ma
Devaki –
Devotee
of Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar
“I can tell you this about Devaki she has always
been a rare devotee..”
Maitri
– Marvin
Casper 1975
“Maitri
can be translated as ‘love’. It means a warm,
friendly attitude. In making friends with someone,
it means accepting their neurosis as well as their
sanity.”
Man
and Woman – Vishnu Bhagavata
She is language; he is thought -She is prudence; he
is law -He is reason; she is sense
Mandukya
Upanishad –
shortest
of the major Upanishads
“The
restless mind cannot think of the transcendental
Reality without the help of a concrete symbol.
Thinking is possible only through
symbols.”
Margaret
Sanger
– Meeting
Ramana Maharshi – 1930’s
“When I came into
the Maharshi’s presence it was as though
electricity had passed through my body I felt when
I bowed I would be calmed, yet when I looked into
those eyes, he was like a flame “
Meditation
and the Life of Wisdom
– a
talk by Da Free John (Adi Da Samraj) – January 1,
1983
Meher
Baba – Adi Da Comments on Psycho Mysticism
Unveiled –
A book
on Meher Baba
“Meher
Baba is but one example of a Spiritual Master who,
along with such others…..is believed, by many, to
be a Divine Avatar of the modern era.”
Meher
Baba –
God to
Man and Man to God
“God-realization
is different from all other states of consciousness
because they are experienced through the medium of
the individual mind, whereas God-consciousness is
not dependent upon the individual mind.”
Meher
Baba and a Sadhu
“A WANDERING SANYASI, who was a recluse and an
ascetic, once showed up at Meherabad during this
period. He had heard of Meher Baba and wanted the
Master’s darshan.”
Meher
Baba – Adi Da Comments on The
Wayfares –
The
Wayfarers, by William Donkin
“This
book is a unique document about a type of
apparently psychotic individual (called a
“mast”)”
Memory
–
Beezone’s
Notes on habit energy of the mind
Discrimination
is the result of memory (VASANA…habit energy)
accumulated from the unknown past. VASANA (memory)
literally means ‘perfuming’ or
‘fumigation’..
Mighty
Atom –
Reminiscing
about the Mighty Atom & Slim
Farmam
“The last of the Great Strongmen (The Mighty Atom)
returned in the person of Slim “The Hammer Man”
Farman.”
Mind
as a Separate Sense of Self
–
A Beezone Enquiry
A
Beezone essay based on talks and essays from the
teachings of Adi Da
Monkey’s
Tale –
Frank
Marrero
“I
remember the first time I saw the face of Bubba
Free John; noble, happy, beautiful; in an
advertisement in the East West Journal in
1975″
Mood
of the Heart –
“I do
not call men or women to my form, for I am not
present as any form or power. There is no name or
light that is my form or the way to me.
My
First Word
– Beezone work on ‘My First Word’ essay by Adi Da
Samraj.
My
Heart is Free
–
1970 –
Adi Da
Samraj
“Sitting
in my room a few minutes ago and suddenly know who
I am. A magnificent flow moved through me, through
the Flow of Everything.”
Name
DA
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
” Then
the men said to him: “Please instruct us, Sir” To
them he uttered the same syllable da and asked:
“Have you understood?”
Nagarjuna
–
Geshe
Kelsang Gyatso
“Nagarjuna’s
life comprised three great periods of auspicious
deeds that correspond to Buddha’s three turnings of
the Wheel of Dharma; which is why he is often
referred to as ‘the Second Buddha.”
Nagarjuna
– Adoration to the Three Treasure and The Seven
Stages of Life –
Nagarjuna
and Adi Da
News,
Media and Information
“the popular media thrive on hype, propagandized
states of emotion and mind, and nondiscrimination
responses to every kind of advertised goods,
persuasions, and results.”
Nobody
Has Ever Turned to the Guru
– It is not so much that you turn to the Guru. The
Guru turns to you. By the time you realize that you
have turned, you have become nothing.
Non
Dual Teachings, Talking Schools and Spiritual
Transmission
Excerpts
from three talks by Adi Da on The Conscious
Process
“there’s a tendency in
the Advaita tradition to develop this kind of
talking school approach to Realization.”
No
“One” Survives Beyond That
Moment –
My
Bright Word
Truth is not a
conditional state. Truth is not a perception or a
thought. When there is truly no “difference”, no
“one” survives. If there truly is the Most Perfect
Realization of Non-separateness, no “one” survives
beyond that moment.
Offenses,
Resistance and Outrage
– “Most everyone will reach their cutoff point, the
point where they will tend to stop, the point where
practice tends to be sufficient for them or where
further effort is too frustrating and too
offensive. “
Old
Patterns and New
Responsibilities –
“Your present situation is only a reflection of
patterns repeated from incidences of the past,
frozen moments in time, repeating themselves over
and over again. “
Paul
Brunton –
The
Maharshi and His Message
“You have been in a spiritual trance for
nearly two hours,” he informs me. His face,
seamed with years and lined with old cares, breaks
into smiles as though he rejoices in my own
happiness”.
Peace
Letter – Open Letter to All
– Adi
Da Samraj
“…human
beings are inherently disposed to control and
dominate all that they presume to be “not-self”.
For this reason, individual egocentric lives are a
constant expression of fear, sorrow, anger, and
un-love.”
Peter
Malakoff –
Story
Teller
“Beware
of Storytellers. They are the most dangerous of all
beings.”
Place
Where Sadhana Begins
– Adi
Da Samraj
– You may want to forestall this
observation…”
Popular
Meditation and Spirituality
– “What is popularized, hyped, and commonly
believed to be religion, spirituality, or
meditation is invariably a form of self-meditation,
self-glorification, and self-survival. “
Prapatti
–
What the term means and …
“from the verbal root
pad + pra (to fall or drop
down)...”
Prayer
– 1978
talk –
Adi Da
Samraj
“If
this prayer is made fully, psychically, heartfelt,
bodily, truly, even intuitively with a sense of the
rightness of it, then it is likely that these
changes will take place.”
Price
No One Wants to Pay
– Beezone
Compilation
– “Beginners do not have the characteristics of the
advanced and the ultimate stages of practice. If
you want there to be profundity, you must be
willing to “pay the price” of sadhana. There is no
profundity otherwise.”
Primal
Incident –
Beezone
‘The Birth of Ego’ –
Complied
and edited from the writings Adi Da
Samraj
Primary
Sensation _ In
every moment when you are motivated to seek, the
root of the motivation is a sensation. That
root-sensation is the self-contraction.
Ram
Dass –
Yesterday
and Today
On a
sunny May afternoon, a 41 year old man with long,
wiry, graying hair emerged from the Boston
International Arrivals Terminal carrying a suitcase
full of Indian silks and an unwieldy, bowl shaped
instrument called a tamboura.”.
Ramana
Maharshi –
Various
articles on or about India’s great sage on the
Beezone
Ramana
Maharshi and Bubba Free John
1977
“Devotion
to the Spiritual Master obliges the heart, mind,
and life of the devotee as long as these remain.
Bubba Free John is such a devotee”
Ramana
Maharshi –
The
Teaching and Realization
– Adi
Da Samraj
“Ramana Maharshi was a
principal modern example of a Great Sage (or a true
Realizer of the Inherent Samadhi of Consciousness
Itself) within the (originally) Upanishadic
tradition of Advaita Vedanta”
Ramana
Maharshi
– Beezone
Index on Him
Items
on or about Ramana Maharshi on Beezone
Rang
Avadhoot –
1898 –
1968
“H.H.
Ranga Avadhoot (Paduranga Vitthal Valame) or well
known as Pujya Bapji – descent on
21-11-1898″
Realization
of Love Changes All Emotional and Egoic
Complexes – Ordeal
of Self-Understanding – Adi Da Samraj.
Realization
if NOT about Union
– “Realization is not about someone realizing union
with someone, or with anything. If there is any
effort along those lines, it has nothing to do with
Realization. It is precisely this effort that must
be understood and transcended.”
Recognition,
Re-Cognition and Enquiry
–
A Beezone Enquiry
A
Beezone study of the use of the terms ‘Recognition,
Re-cognition and Enquiry’ as used by Adi Da in his
teaching.
Rig
Veda –
The
Rigveda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic
Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods
(devas).
“Ruler
of sacrifices, guard of Law eternal, radiant One,
Increasing in thine own abode.”
Right
Effort – It’s a contradiction and a
paradox
“Attention itself is that fracturing. The objects
are representations of the results of that
fracturing, worked out in every possibility of
duality.”
Right
View
– Adi Da – January 1999
“When
expansion is perfectly counter to contraction, that
is infinity”.
Sacrifice
Means to Make Sacred
– “There are two ways of life. There is one lived
by the law of karma, or change itself, in
confrontation with the solid world, the appearing
world; or there is the way of living from the point
of view of Truth or the actual, the real
condition.”
Sadguru
Shri Vasudevanand
–1854-1913
Shri
Vasudevanand Saraswati (Tembe) Swami, the great
saint and ascetic who revived the ancient
Dattatreya tradition
Sadguru
Sri Gnanananda
– Sage
and great yogi
“Shri
Sivarathnagiri Swami He transferred all His powers
of penance to His Priya-Shishya and christened him
as Shri Gnanananda Giri”
Sadhana
– Beezone
study
Sadhana
– Right Where You Are
– Excerpts
from the writings of Adi Da
Samraj
– “You do have to do
this sadhana in the context of your
ordinariness”
Sat
Chit Ananda (Invisible Man)
–
1975
“Recently I have said a few things about the
distinction between the Guru function, or Siddhi,
the difference between that and the Teaching. They
are two very different functions.”
Scared
Texts of Hinduism –
Archive
Science
of Soul –
Shri
Yogeshwarananda – The Introduction
“How is
Jivatman, the individual soul which is concealed by
the combination of three bodies, to be
realized….” that is the subject of this
book.
Seeds
– “Seeds are dormant possibilities of life and
action. In the life of a practitioner seeds are
possibilities or potentials inherent in various
disciplines. Without disciplines there are no
possibilities”
Setting
Sun – The Great Western Sun
– “This is the late-time, the dark epoch, East and
West. This is the long-prophesied time of the
setting sun, the Western sun. This is the time of
the decline of the mind and the culture of the
rising sun, the Eastern sun.”
Sila/Equanimity
– “As maturity develops over time, a positive
equanimity begins to characterize the
body-mind.”
Silence
– “The best “term” of reference to Reality is
perhaps silence, no-thought, no-indication, or
no-action.
Seed
of self
– Origin
of self
“instant
of differentiation the most primitive archetype of
all knowledge appears”
Self-Observation
and Self-Watching –
Beezone
complication – What’s
the difference between these two approaches to
‘insight’?
Separate
Sense of Self as Mind–
A Beezone Enquiry
A
Beezone essay based on talks and essays from the
teachings of Adi Da
Shakti
– Adi
Da’s relationship and Revelation in relation to the
feminine principle
Shining
Center –
Comments
on the ‘Queen Bee’ principle
“
Traditional sacred society, large or small, has had
a kind of hierarchical way of organizing
itself.”
Shirdi
Sai Baba
– Leelas
of Sai Baba of Shirdi
Shri
Guru Leelamrit
– Shri Guru Leelamrit (The Nectar of Teacher’s
Sport) by Pujya Shri Rang Avadhoot
Shri
Yogeshwarananda –
How he
met his Guru
“On his
arrival at the cave he saw a lustrous figure
sitting in a lotus pose and meditating. He had
spread some earth on two logs of wood and covered
it with the bark of a tree, and was sitting on that
seat. His pose was quiet and absolutely
motionless”
Siddhas
– Beezone
Compilation
Sivananda
–
Guru principle
“The
Guru is God Himself manifesting in a personal form
to guide the aspirant. Grace of God takes the form
of the Guru.”
Siva
Sutras
c. 800
C.E.
“The
Aphorisms of Siva, or Siva Sutras (SS), are a late
reiteration of the Vedic view of
consciousness.”
Sky
of Mind
– Songs
of the Enlighten Heart
“The
mind is like a cave of bats. Countless eyes are
suspended in darkness, with sharp feet clinging to
the convolutions of the brain, hiding from
light.”
Sri
Seshadri Swamigali
– Contemporary
of Ramana Maharshi
“Sri
Seshadri Swamigali was known for his great
spiritual eminence and for his yogic power through
tapas.”
Sri
Yogi Ramsuratkumar
– Begger
Saint
“The person that came to be called Sri Yogi
Ramsuratkumar was born on December 1, 1918, along
the banks of the Ganges in a village adjacent to
Kashi..”
Still
arguing and trying to figure it
out – Excerpts from
the teachings of Adi Da Samraj – “The ego-“I” is
always seeking and arguing…”
Stress
– Adi
Da Samraj – “You must
find the ways to overcome the stresses, to
transform the chemistry of the body literally, so
that you can live long and without stress, both
chemical and social, or cultural.”
Swami
Prakashananda
“A vessel of happiness…a beautiful being who
breathed the spiritual force in such a way that it
saturated his entire body.” – Adi Da
Samraj.
Talks
with Ramana Maharshi
– 1935-6
“What
more is there to say, but to advise one and all to
read this book and try to make it a part of
themselves? Not one word to be passed over lightly,
or one conversation to be dismissed as
superfluous.”
Sadhu Arunachala, Major A. W. Chadwick.
Teaching
and Realization of Ramana
Maharshi –
Adi Da
Samraj
“Ramana
Maharshi was a principal modern example of a Great
Sage within the Upanishadic tradition of Advaita
Vedanta. He affirmed Ultimate Realization only as
Samadhi”
Tightness
and Doubt – 1969 –
Water and Narcissus
Times
in which we live –
Beezone
If we
lived in more or less holy times, you see, and and
there were true spiritual masters around we could
perhaps live quite comfortably here. But that is
not the way it is.
Tom
Riley –
Devotee 1971 to Present
“Franklin
Jones as I understand him to be, both today and
back then, 33 years ago, was and is not limited to
his physical location.”
Training
the Mind –
Chogyam
Trungpa
TRAINING
THE MIND AND CULTIVATING LOVING-KINDNESS by Chogyam
Trungpa – Edited by Judith L. Lief.
Transcendence
– What does transcendence (n) or transcend (v)
mean? Does transcendence or transcend mean to go
beyond the limits of, to triumph, overcome or be
prior to or be beyond and above
something?
Transcending
The Cosmic Mandala
– Easy
Death –
“Mind
is not merely in the brain and less than the brain.
Mind is the circumstance of consciousness in its
association with objects of all kinds. Mind is
universal, infinite in extent..”
Transcend
the Self Knot of Fear
– Adi
Da Samraj – 2006
“You
cannot escape fear unless something changes about
your understanding. …you cannot get rid of fear.
There is no intoxication, no diversion, nothing
that will de-sensitize.. anything you do is
temporary“
Transcending
Madness
– Chogyam
Trungpa
“There seems to be quite a misconception as to the
idea of bardo, which is that it is purely connected
with the death and after-death experience. But the
experience of the six bardos is not concerned with
the future alone; it also concerns the present
moment. Every step of experience, every step of
life, is bardo experience.”
Transcending
The Six Stages of Life
– Book
Ten (The Seven Stages of Life) of the Companion
Series
“I help
my…Devotee To realize that the first six stages
of life are ..stages of contraction …”
Transcending
Fear – “You can
practice Communion only by transcending fear, by
actual, literal, heartfelt surrender beyond all
fear of death and madness into the Transcendental
Reality.”
Tripura
Rahasya –
…beyond
the Trinity
Tripura
Rahasya was considered by Bhagavan Sri Ramana
Maharshi as one of the greatest works that
expounded advaita philosophy.
True
Sincerity – “True
sincerity is a quality that is naturally alive in a
person who understands himself.”
Truth,
Romance and Delusion
– The true Spiritual process is not a kind process
with which and to whom you can indulge in a
romance!
Understanding
and Our Primary Activity
– “There two aspects appearing side by side in the
Knee of Listening; the yogic or phenomenal aspects,
and the teaching relative to
understanding.”
Unfinished
Business –
“You
must handle business, or you will not move beyond
the first three stages of life, you simply will
not. You cannot and will not. But you must.”
Originally published as
“On Love” -Excerpts from recent talks by
Heart-Master Da (Adi Da Samraj) – Originally
published in Crazy Wisdom magazine, Vol 6, No 6,
Nov/Dec 1987.
Unknown
Jerome Cookies
– A Man
eats a cookie because…
A man
does not buy a cookie because he is hungry…
Upasani
Baba Maharaj –
1870 –
1941
“Sai
Baba molded Upasani Maharaj into His own likeness
and once told him, “You must plant trees that will
live for many centuries – from which people will
derive benefit,”
Upasani
Baba’s Prophetic
Announcement –
1939
Change
in Dharma is the specified work of an Avatara and
Lord Shri Krishna has emphatically declared that He
would incarnate himself if and when Dharma is in
chaos and needs reform.
Upasni
Maharaj’s last meeting with Meher
Baba –
with
pictures
Friday,
October 17, 1941 was a significant day in spiritual
history. Upasni Maharaj and Meher Baba met in a
secluded hut at Dahigaon.
Until
You Realize – There
is seemingly a ‘paradox” or a ‘contraction’ to the
Dharma in trying to understand it.
Urge
for Human Awakening
– “Human awakening is the product of a inherent
biological urge. This process of awakening is
inherent in the psycho-biological structures of
every human being.”
Urge
for Sanctuary –
1979 –
Adi Da Samraj – “To
create a human sanctuary for higher adaptation of
the human species is a primal human urge. We
inherently desire a human and natural environment
in which we can live without the chronic production
of stress chemistry.”
Verbal
Mind
– Some
thoughts on thinking – Some thinking on thoughts –
Beezone – complied from the teachings of Adi Da
Samraj
What
Arises – “In the
Heart there is no adventure and no world, no one
who thinks or acts, but there is only
understanding. It is no place, no affect, no
reflection, no exclusive force. It is perfect,
unqualified existence, consciousness and
bliss”
What
Consciousness Is –
Beezone
adaptation from an
Aletheon essay.
What
the World Wants and Does Not
Want – “In general,
what the “world” wants – and, therefore, what
“religious” institutions tend to provide – is
social association and optimistic talk”
What
is Consciousness? –
This is the basic question posed in The Knee of
Listening.
What
is Faith? -“When
those who have lost faith in the exalted begin to
suspect that things are not as they seem, they
always assume that things must be worse than they
seem, not better.”
What
is its Essence? –
1974 Talk – Bubba Free John (Adi Da Samraj)
“We’re talking about the realization that would be
true if we would only commune with you. No doubt
you’ve said it a thousand times before.”
What
is Satsang? – There
is a common understanding that spending time in the
company of a Guru is Satsang, something like going
to church.
Where
is Everybody Going?
– The first great crisis of human existence is the
observation of the tentative minimal, and always
temporary association between life and
Happiness.
Whatever
you have not transcended you must fulfill, that is
the law. – There is
only one Truth, but there are two ways to realize
it.
What
is The Conscious Process?
Beezone
Study of the conscious process based on an essay by
Adi Da.
White
and Orange Books –
Beezone
Project
White
and Orange Books project is based on Ludwig
Wittgenstein’s Blue and Brown books
Work
It Out – “Work out
the matter of forgiveness and love expression with
them. By doing this you purify yourself and all
your present and relations, and you purify your
parents as well.”
Yoga
a Buddhist Perspective
– Herbert
Guenther
“Both
the yogißvara and the rnal-‘byor dbang-phyug
are said to be or likened to a dancer. In the one
case the emphasis is on the concrete person/god as
a dancer, in the other case the emphasis is on the
whole’s or, psychologically speaking, the Self’s
dancing out its potential.”
Yoga
of Consideration
– Beezone
Until
we understand we must consider
things.
Yoga
of Spiritual Practice
– “The spiritual Way depends first of all on
establishing the receptive and descended
personality as a functional vehicle of the Living
Reality. This is the principle of the first three
stages of life.”
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