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"My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path. It is too difficult, too long, and it is too demanding. What I would suggest, if you haven't already begun, is to go to the door, ask for your money back, and go home now,this is not a picnic. It is really going to ask everything of you and you should understand that from the beginning. So it is best not to begin. However, if you do begin, it is best to finish."
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

 

Introduction

"Answers are only a response to (a) question.
But (a) question is what you are all about!"
The Method of The Siddhas - Adi Da Samraj

 

I've never found things completely satisfying, completely and absolutely. Too many things don't make sense, at least in the way most people seem to find satisfaction in them. I'm not a skeptic mind you, I just want to find out what is real, what is true and what is right, and so I wonder about things. That wonder is why I spend my time writing, meditating and studying about things. All kinds of things, big things (highs) and little things (lows). One of the 'things' I've discovered is, when I consider anything, any thing at all, it always returns me to the place I started from, the place of wonder. A wonder of who, what and where is this one (me), who is wondering, is!1

Of all the wonders of the world I've discovered, the greatest one of them all is this wonder of me. Who am I? (and who am I not) What am I? (and what am I not) What is this place I find myself in and how does it make any sense.

"In the Buddhist view, what keeps beings trapped in these cyclic patterns is both the deep-seated but mistaken apprehension that we are (or have) an unchanging, independent, self-subsistent entity or “self ” (atman-ego), as well as the misguided activities motivated by attachment to such a self (ego). These activities are misguided, the Buddhists assert, because no permanent and independent individuality can actually be found in our worldly existence. Instead, sentient beings are thought to consist of aggregations of everevolving physiological and psychological processes which arise and persist only as long as the causes and conditions that sustain them persist"5

To make this introduction short and to the point, all of my wondering, studying, meditating, reading, talking and questioning started me on a journey that led me to the one person who knows more about this 'subject' of life (and death) then anyone else I've met, read or listened to. And this person is Adi Da Samraj, a guru. It all seems so foreign from my contemporary American point of view but I can't argue with the facts. I am not a formal student of Adidam (the formal church of the Way of Adi Da) but work with the institutional and cultural forms of Adidam and am recognized as a friend and supporter.

This website is about my journey of understanding starting with my early quest into psychology, philosophy and history and then leading me Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Buddhism, meditation and eventually to Adi Da. Of course the journey still remains2, Adi Da is not an answer. He may be a question to some, but he is certainly no answer3. My journey is the same as yours, ongoing.

The Beezone is an ongoing consideration and study of The Great Wonder of Wonders, you and me and the state of the world we live in today4. I think this is an important considering the state of things today, not just for me but for you too.

 

 

Blessings,

Ed Reither
Fairfax, CA


1. My wonder, experience and knowledge ALWAYS implied and exploited my sense of self. I noticed any and all knowledge and experience always turned or attached itself to the sense of 'me' - ego. (see 'The Restoration of Laughter')
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2. "you cannot take heaven by storm. There is no method... that is equivalent to Enlightenment. Self-Observation, self-knowing, self-transcendence is a lifelong exercise. it never comes to an end. It is always going on, always developing, there's nothing instant about it."
Adi Da - 1982

"The Way of the Heart is a "consideration". It is "consideration" itself. It goes on in every moment. If you are serious, it never ends."
The Unity of Existence - 1994
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"You still have not gotten the point. You do not get that point once and for all - it must be gotten moment by moment. It is a continuous "consideration". It does not end. It is not a merely intellectual matter, wherein you grasp something in a moment and after that you are okay because you grasped it. The practice of the Way of the Heart is constant "consideration" until there is Most Perfect transcendence of the self-contraction."
1993 - Religious Realism
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3. There are no answers
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4. 'The times' - Beezone


5. THE BUDDHIST UNCONSCIOUS - The alaya-vijñana in the context of Indian Buddhist thought - William S. Waldron

"You need not necessarily make everybody My devotee,
but try to get people to at least invest themselves
in the greatest aspirations of the tradition they do embrace."
 
Adi Da Samraj - 1993

 

 

 



 

  Adi Da, Ramana Maharshi, Nityananda, Shridi Sai Baba, Upasani Baba,  Seshadri Swamigal , Meher Baba, Sivananda, Ramsuratkumar
"The perfect among the sages is identical with Me. There is absolutely no difference between us"
Tripura Rahasya, Chap XX, 128-133


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