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The white circle in the black field (in the left half of the Image) is what Avatar Adi Da calls the “Midnight Sun”—a visual representation of the Divine Self-“Brightness” Shining in the midst of the cosmic domain.
Dressed in renunciatory orange,1 with his long hair pulled back, he seems by his demeanor to be both somber and ecstatic.
Said to be spontaneously initiated by the very powers of his own consciousness, such a rare, perfected master spontaneously achieves a profound understanding of and insight into the deepest meanings of all scriptures and all religions. And this, it is said, without undergoing any explicit outer initiation or instruction into those specific traditions.
The preliminary Listening-practice
of “Perfect Knowledge” is the Tacit (by-Me-Given) Reality-Way of simply Self-“Locating”, moment to moment, the Self-Position in Which you Always Already (or Always Priorly) Stand. (see part 11, essay VI)
This is the seventh stage of life which is the Position of Reality itself, of what truly IS, beyond any forms of states of consciousness, and senior to the position of the ego.
There is a dimension of existence that is off the edge of the mind. Words can only gesture paradoxically toward it. And yet the most urgent human need is to plumb this dimension, to get to the source of things, to know Reality with a capital “R”, in order to make sense of the chaos of experience.
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Tcha.4 You must become relaxed from your agitated, contracted identification with the body-mind and its play, and become capable of simply Standing in the Native Position. Then all that Radiates from that Position informs the body-mind, informs the life, and you do not lose Reality in order to be alive. So “thoughtless feeling” is a simple way of describing what is Realized—Self-Existing, Self-Radiant, Non-conditional. Everything is Divinely Self-Recognizable in Reality—no longer the lie, the invented life made by dissociation from the Native State, but everything seen in Truth, in and As the Divine Self-Condition, Unobstructed Light, Unobstructed Consciousness, One with all, Transcending all, in a flash of no time whatsoever.
The Hidden Structure of the Body-Mind The effort to console, or “save”, or transform, or even dissolve the apparent “I”—which we all presume to be—is a major preoccupation of religion.
The gross (or outer) dimension corresponds to the physical level of experience and the waking state. The subtle (or inner) dimension includes everything to do with mind, emotion, and energy—including the domain of dreaming and psychic experience, as well as the range of supernormal experience that is commonly called “mystical”. The causal (or root) dimension refers to the depth where the “I”-“other” sense originates, thereby “causing”, or generating, the worlds of subtle and gross experience that extend from that root presumption of separate “identity”.
AI Summary
The Gnosticon by Avatar Adi Da Samraj and Paul E. Muller-Ortega presents key insights from the Taoism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
Core Themes:
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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