A Beezone study of ‘Klik-Klak’ in the teaching of Adi Da Samraj
The following material in this study of the term ‘Klik-Klak’, comes from many different materials (talks, books, etc) by Adi Da, spoken and written over a number of years. Most of the material is exactly as he said or wrote it. But there are other parts of this study that are additions by Beezone. Much of what Beezone has added has been put in parenthesis (), but not all. So, if your reading with ‘an exacto knife’ then you will be disappointed.
What follows is Beezone understanding. You can read (and study) as you wish, but I firmly believe this to be a very useful tool in understanding the term ‘Klik-Klak’ and how Adi Da uses it.
“To mistake our perceptions (particularly our sensory perceptions) of things for the thing itself is an unjustifiable assumption about reality. This is of course reminiscent of Kant’s warning and all forms of phenomenalism about the difference between reality and our perceptions of it.
The fallacy of misplaced concreteness is largely responsible for the modern worlds and modern sciences denial of the reality of time, of experience and of mind and the perception. That such hard core common sense intuitions which we all utilize in practice (even if we deny them in theory) are mere illusions. That the world as represented by science is the real world rather than a partial and incomplete picture of a world which has aspects and features which can not be captured by objective observation, sensory perception or quantified by measurement.” – Philosophical Forums, Prothero
The Study
Part Two
Responsibility – Changing the Pattern –
Attention Makes the Difference –
My Revelation and Your Responsibility
Avatar Adi Da uses key expression in His Wisdom-Teaching, Klik-Klak, which He uses to describe the mass of conditions that are only constantly shifting and replicating patterns, that never manifest any fixed objects or entities. He explains that the fundamental error of the presumed separate self is the attempt to superimpose the characteristics of Consciousness Itself onto the Klik-Klak realm. Ultimately, we must Realize That Which is Always Already the Case, Prior to the illusion of Klik-Klak.
Responsibility – Changing the Pattern
How does the Devotional Prayer of Changes fit in?
The Devotional Prayer of Changes is associated with
sadhana,
the disposition
to transcend
conditional bondage
in Communion
with Me.
The disposition
of going beyond
makes use
of the psycho-physical mechanism
in a different attitude
than the one
that is simply
bound
to the pattern
as it is now
appearing.
Klik-klak is just
plastic.
Mind
is subtler
than grosser pattern.
Mind can affect
grosser pattern.
The presumptions
in mind
govern what happens
in the grosser.
You can
by
relinquishing presumptions
at the mind level,
the deeper level
that is governing,
what is outward –
change the pattern
at that subtle level.
It is still just
pattern patterning.
But you can
take advantage
of klik-klaks
own law
of shift-replicating,
shift –
by not using
that particular pattern,
thought,
or presumption.
(by)
Just letting it go,
breathing it away,
exhaling
(responsibility participating)
(in a greater field)
At the mind level,
the feeling level,
presume a pattern
that is
as you would
have it
be
in the gross
vibratory appearance.
You are associating
with the realm of
patterns
at the mind level,
prior to their
congealing
in the gross manner.
You are simply
playing a trick
on klik-klak.
You’re making use
of klik-klaks
own law
of replication.
Subtle moves
towards gross.
It’s not
that you’ve found
paradise.
(some secret power)
It’s that you’ve
found out
something about
klik-klak
by Revelation,
of course,
because
I am telling you this.
But it is about
this “consideration”
of Consciousness
and of Happiness.
(not because you get
what you want
by seeking).
In the process,
certain things are discovered,
or may be Revealed
to you.
So what I am Revealing
to you
is a total Way.
It includes
the Devotional Prayer of Changes,
and all kinds of other things,
whereby you will –
through the
responsible exercise
of all aspects
of the body-mind,
including
discriminative intelligence
and
will,
governed by
heart-disposition
in devotion to Me –
be purified,
and (ultimately)
understand,
and feel beyond,
the bondage
of conditional existence.
This can be done
through this metaphor
of the Pleasure Dome
– establishing the Yoga,
Yogic conditions of
Communion with Me
moment to moment,
whatever the conditions
may be.
So it is
the capability
to exercise
such Siddhi
in the Enlightened Disposition
that is the import of this.
It is not an ability
to “take over the world”
“Suddenly I discovered I was klik-klak!
And I’m back!
Bigger than ever, folks!
You’ve got a God now!”
That is not
Me.
That is
klik-klak.
The one you always imagine
when you get
religious,
the one you always
think
must exist –
that’s klik-klak!
Because
that is the one
who
(you would like)
is in charge of the world,
who creates the world.
He is everything about the world,
and justifying
and blessing
the world
as world
in and of itself
for its own sake,
somehow,
as long as it serves
a purpose
in the pattern on into the future.
Utopia.
Attention Makes the Difference
The God of klik-klak
and the God of the Prior Condition,
of Consciousness.
It is actually attention
Attention
makes
the difference
and differences.
You become
what you
meditate on,
what you’ve
invested
with your presence
of being,
and the
characteristics
that are
inherent
only
in your own position.
So you
in effect
worship everything
to which
you grant
your attention.
you worship
what you give
maximum attention to.
What are the outstanding uses
of your attention?
You are effectively worshipping that,
or meditating on it,
holding it steady,
holding yourself steady
in that condition,
disposition,
relationship,
whatever it is.
Discrimination,
heart-disposition
– faculties that reflect
the
Beyond Disposition
and that ultimately
are used
to serve
the Realization
of the
Beyond Position
– are means
for this
going
beyond
klik-klak.
Pleasure-Dome
creativity
or manifestation
ultimately
becomes the base,
or asana,
of
“moving” into
the Perfect Disposition.
My Revelation and Your Responsibility
I have told you
all
of this total process.
Ultimately,
you can
enter into the Domain
of practice
that is about
Realizing
That Which Is
Prior
to the illusions
of conditional existence.
I have shown you
not only
how this can be
transcended,
to be
Divinely Realized,
but I have also
pointed out
to you
that in all this
meantime,
That Which
Is
Always
Already the Case
Is
Always
Already the Case.
Notice
No matter what’s arising,
you are basically
the Witness.
This is still
the Case,
even while
there is
involvement
in klik-klak.
That Which is
Always Already the Case
is still
Always Already
the Case.
The Truth
is Always
Already the Case.
Consciousness Always
Already
Is.
Why aren’t you
then
simply living
that?
(I’ll tell you why)
You are enmeshed
in klik-klak-land.
and
There is a way
beyond it.
(But while you’re)
in the midst of it,
you can’t
just “go out the door”.
(and get out
while you’re alive)
You have to Realize
What Is Beyond this
(Klik-Klak)
by a process
that is,
at the moment,
enacted
in the context
of what was
your bondage.
(your karma)
You have to
process out
of your bondage,
You can’t
just simply think
your way out of it,
or have a lecture
magically relieves you.
It requires a lifetime
of reorientation,
surrender,
Communion,
and Grace.
If you observe,
understand,
establish the disciplines
that “trick” klik-klak
that enable you
to maintain
the zone of transcendence
and Yoga
-then klik-klak
is used to your advantage,
so to speak.
But it’s a constant art.
End of Part Two – Go to Part One
Discourse – Klik-Klak: The Pattern Patterning
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A Beezone study of ‘Klik-Klak’ in the teaching of Adi Da Samraj