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That Awareness, that Conscious enjoyment, that Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Space of Infinitely and inherently Free Being, that Shine of inherent Joy standing in the heart and Expanding from the heart, is the “Bright”. And It is the entire Source of True Humor. It is Reality. It is not separate from anything
Adi Da experienced “the Force” and its purifying effects, which confirmed to him the spiritual nature of existence and the reality of what he knew, in its unqualified fullness, to be the “Bright”.
I allowed the death to happen, and I “saw” it happen… . There was a spontaneous, utter release of identification with the body, the mind, the emotions of the separate person, and the self-contracting (or reactive and separative) act that is the ego (or the presumed person). When that moment of crisis had passed, I felt a marvelous relief—or rather, simply, a marvelous Freedom.
The imagined separate “knowing-self” is a merely apparent “known-object” (and the otherwise mere “shadow” of a conditional appearance), superimposed on the Perfectly Prior and Inherent Reality-Condition. The imagined ego-life is, thus, “played” on the Perfectly Prior Self-Base of Intrinsically egoless Conscious Light, like a reflection in a mirror (Teaching Manual 149).
The guiding purpose behind every consideration was, he says, to convey a fundamental lesson to humankind: no experience, whether high or low in the spectrum of human possibilities, is itself happiness, truth, or liberation, nor can it produce such happiness. Experiences of whatever kind are simply what he humorously called “the bangles of the Goddess”, modifications of conscious light.
Leelas serve to delight, inspire, and instruct, regardless of their factuality.42
AI Summary
Adi Da Samraj by Michael (Anthony) Costabile presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 6 passages above capture the essential teachings.
Core Themes:
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 6 are particularly representative.
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