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Introduction
“There was a secret
work school that existed in Afghanistan for thousands of
years called “Sarmoun Darq,” which means “The Beehive” or
the “Collectors of Honey.”
“I bow
down to the most sublime of speakers, the completely
awakened one who taught.”
Mulamadhyadmakakarika
Study
in the
Spiritual
& Religious Traditions of
Humankind
The Nature and
History and The Great Art of Alchemy.
Mercedes
D’Acosta
“I read (In Search of India) and it had a profound influence
on me. In it I learned for the first time about Ramana
Maharshi, a great Indian saint and sage.”
Letters and
links
“I do not understand
why so many thousands of people–who have heartily expressed
to me the opinion that my own written works express great
clarity, judgment, and understanding–balk and look in
disbelief when I speak ecstatically of Adi Da.
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…”
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.”
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.”
The Guru Principle
Investigated by Beezone
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.
The
Character of the Liberated Man
The
Yoga-Vasistha
“Qualities,
characteristics and behaviors of a Liberated Man (or
Woman)”
Money
vs Wealth – Alan Watts
ENSLAVEMENT OF
THE FALSE SELF
Richard Forer
Transforming
Fear Into Compassion
A
New and Transformative Perspective on the Israel – Palestine
Conflict
Rishikesh, India
A series of rhapsodies on the
spiritual foundations of Western thought.
Devotee of Franklin
Jones in 1971 to Adi Da Samraj
Presently.
Terry Patten
Story
Teller
“Before we begin –
Lets go back – Lets start again – from where things have a
beginning, in story.”
Nondual Reality and the Secret Wisdom Hidden Behind the
Cross and Creation?A Love Story
Adi Da
Samraj and a Nondual Rendering of the
Bible
The
Inheritance of Evil; Or, the Consequences of Marrying a
Deceased Wife’s Sister. Felicia
Skene. London: Joseph Masters, 1849.
Gyalwa Karmapa, Rikpe Dorje (1924-1982), who was the sixteenth incarnation in a line of enlightened heirarchs, heads of the Kagyu order of Buddhism in Tibet. It recounts an incident in his first journey, in the mid-seventies, out of the medieval Himalayan world he had known into the modern West. His first stop was Hong Kong, where his hosts took him to the top of a skyscraper. Standing on the observation platform, the Karmapa looked out with astonishment and delight at the vast view of the city below. Then, after a moment or two, he began to cry. He had to be helped inside by his attendants with tears pouring from his eyes. Later he explained that at the sight of the huge city with its teeming masses being born and struggling without a shred of dharma to help them – “without,” as he said, “so much as an Om Mani Padme Hum” – he had been overcome by grief.
— Sherah Chdzin, from Chgyam Trungpa’s The Path is the Goal
“The carrier of mythological and philosophical wisdom in India has been since time immemorial the ‘holy man’. This figure is the embodiment of the spiritual India, and we meet him again and again in the literature”
Carl Jung – The Holy Men of India, 1944
Enlightenment or the realization of Truth,
Reality and/or God is as natural as a simple response to the delight
of a child’s smile. It is no big deal and no grand vision. All big
deals and visions are shy of it. The absolute thing is unmentionable
This is why the Buddha first refused to speak. But, if one were to
speak it would only be a Great Paradox. There is no thing and yet
there is. There is the holding on to everything, and the falling away
of everything, a point of Zero, Perfect Equanimity. How is such a
paradox realized? No mediocre man or woman has ever realized such a
state; no fool will ever enjoy it and no childish person will ever
begin it. More
