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#3400 - Friday, January 2,
2009 - Editor: Jerry Katz
The Nonduality Highlights - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights
John Devitt is a cool contributor to Nonduality Salon. He's also a flautist and recording artist. Listen to his piece entitled, what else, Nonduality, and enjoy the images:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inycarxt0a4
Chat with John at the Salon: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NondualitySalon/
Feel4God writes in the Nonduality blog: http://nonduality.org/2008/11/28/adi-da-is-dead/#comments.
This is an interesting passage I just
opened up to about Adi Da's relationship to non-humans,
the human mind, Reality, etc.
From "Radical Devotion" by Adi Da
Samraj (published in 2006):
"Human bondage comes from mind. The non-humans native to
this Earth-world are not trapped in mind - at least, not to the
degree (or in the same manner) that is the case with human
beings. Of course, the non-humans here suffer a level of
operative psyche that represents bondage even in their case -
but, nevertheless, all the non-humans native to this Earth-world
innately enjoy a fundamental freedom from the bondage-to-mind
that is uniquely manufactured and exaggerated by human beings.
That is why human beings have a unique obligation - relative to
the transcending of egoity, and relative to the Ordeal of Divine
Self-Realization. Generally speaking, the non-humans native to
the Earth-world are, by their natural nature, innately extended
into the Field of Transcendental Contemplation. Therefore, they
can always readily drop out of their rudimentary bondage to mind.
Fundamentally, as an innate characteristic, they Stand Prior to
mind. In that sense, the non-humans here are (to some degree)
already Free. They are not Absolutely Free, because they are
still bound to conditionally manifested existence - but they do
enjoy an inherent means for transcending conditionally manifested
existence. Therefore, the non-humans native to this Earth-world
do not require verbal Instruction in how to practice the
ego-transcending, mind-transcending, and world-transcending
Way."
"I Relate very directly to the non-humans here - and I
Freely Relate to them Spiritually. Indeed, I Do My Divine
Avataric Spiritual Work in direct relation even to apparently
inanimate "things" - including the very structures and
materials of both human and natural spaces. This directness that
characterizes My tacit relationship to all that arises
conditionally does not require words, because the non-humans here
(and even all material conditions here) have no innate
requirement to overcome word-mind."
"Human beings are (in their egoity) uniquely unavailable to
Spiritual Influence - only because of the force of mind, the
force of the patterning associated with conceptual and perceptual
bondage. Every human individual virtually "carries the world
around" in the form of his or her own mind. Every human
being carries a "personalized" facsimile of the world
in speech-mind, in mental pictures, in
"point-of-view"-based psychology and psyche - and all
of that is nothing but an illusion. That mind-world exists only
in the brain-field, and in the energy-field otherwise associated
with the physical brain. That mind-world does not exist
otherwise. That mind-world is not limited to the present physical
lifetime - but that mind-world is, nevertheless, a construct that
is not (itself) Reality Itself. Indeed, that mind-world arises on
the basis (or as an apparent modification) of Reality Itself -
and therefore, the exercise of Reality Itself is the necessary
Means for transcending the bondage to
mind. Thus, the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam, is,
altogether, the exercising of Reality Itself. The only-by-Me
Revealed and Given Way of Adidam Inherently Stands Prior to and
Transcends the mind. The only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of
Adidam is a life-practice that is an inherently purifying process
that goes beyond all patterned bondage - not through some program
of ego-activity, but by Means of the exercise of Reality Itself,
such that you Stand As Reality Itself (rather than standing as
your ego-patterning, and your ego-based problems, and your
ego-reinforcing search)."
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Read 500 other comments on the topic of Adi Da: http://nonduality.org/2008/11/28/adi-da-is-dead/#comments
Bargains galore
My book, One: Essential Writings on Nonduality, I notice is available as used copies for only about $4 each plus another four bucks for shipping. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1591810531/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used.
Also, Bill East told me that he has some copies of his wildly fresh CD What Am I Really? for only 9.95 (regular 14.95) plus $3 shipping in the U.S. It includes a separate book of lyrics: http://www.whatamireally.com/index.php?func=music. At the link you can listen to samples and read reviews.