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 1
The Teaching
Truth Itself is the Teaching
There is no teaching
But Consciousness itself.
Reality is
The present thing
To be communicated.
Truth is the communication
From the point of view
Of the true teaching.
The true teacher
Teaches Truth as Truth,
From the point of view
Of Truth.
His teaching is not
From the point of view
Of experience.
His teaching is from
The point of view
Of Truth,
Truth already realized,
The unattainable
(because it is always present)
Reality.
The teaching
Is not other then
The true teaching function.
The teaching is not other than
The true teacher.
Truth itself
Is the teaching.
The teaching in Truth
Is not different from
The true teacher,
Not different from
The Divine.
The teaching is a call,
By the spiritual master,
Or the very Divine.
It is the Divine influence.
That is the teaching.
Nothing else is the teaching.
The teaching in Truth,
The teaching that is Truth,
That is the Divine power,
That is the teaching function,
Is communicated to all beings
In all times
Under all conditions.
This Truth
Is served by all
Of the ordinary and extraordinary
Results of life
And by the stream of teaching
Radiated through
Realized beings
In the various times and places
Of the worlds.
The teaching is not a road.
The teaching is
A paradoxical communication.
No communication is Truth
Or leads to it.
No one since the world began
Has ever understood
A word that I have said.
The teaching
Has never been perfectly communicated
In the past.
This is the first time.
I speak for myself.
My authority is reality,
And my only resort
Is radical understanding.
It is in understanding, then,
That you must test my words.
What I am talking about
Is very simple.
The teaching is simple:
Only understand.
Understand and fall helpless
In the Heart.
Everything else is done.
What is this?
I can’t believe
That you could be deceived
This long.
What more can I tell you?
I don’t know.
I can’t make it any plainer.
My speech is over.
I can’t convince you.
Send in the next group!
We were originally going to
Open this place
As a restaurant.
Give the public what it wants.
On tonight’s menu
We have choice medjool dates!
Have I Said It?
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