Reality-Humanity - Softcover

Adi Da Samraj

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570972397 ISBN 13: 9781570972393

Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press, 2008

Synopsis

The World-Friend Adi Da speaks out of his concern for the current plight of humanity. He invites you to consider his urgent calling for the founding of a Global Cooperative Forum. This Forum is there to address the profound ills of today s world, and to re-establish human civilization based on principles of mutual trust, cooperation, tolerance, prior unity, and the limitless participation of all of humankind in transforming its own destiny. This booklet contains a major essay Adi Da has added to his book Not-Two Is Peace. This booklet is intended, then, to both accompany and add to that larger text. Not-Two Is Peace is a collection of essays in which Adi Da addresses the current state of humanity and our globe, offering a new paradigm of change. From the starting-place of an intrinsic knowledge of the prior unity of existence, he describes a way of looking at world-problems and taking action in which humanity, as a whole, functions without the presumption of being separate. In Reality-Humanity , Adi Da elaborates his description of a Global Cooperative Forum , which he first proposed inNot-Two Is Peace;. Citing the naturally self-correcting properties of systems and the principle you will end up with whatever you start with , Adi Da describes the secret to helping human beings get unstuck from our present un-civilized course. The Global Cooperative Forum he proposes can enable humankind to function as an egoless whole free of any separate or factional points of view . Adi Da also illustrates why separate factions will never resolve in peace and well-being only action based in the utter non-difference of prior unity can be a truly civilizing force in the world.

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About the Author

Adi Da was born in New York, in 1939. The author of over sixty books, he has lived in Fiji since 1983 and is a Fijian citizen. Throughout his early childhood, Adi Da enjoyed a state of extraordinary spiritual illumination. At a very early point in his life, he intentionally relinquished this state, in order learn the cause of human suffering and the way to go beyond it. Later, as a young man, Adi Da immersed himself in the traditions of human wisdom and spirituality. His Western studies included university degrees in philosophy from Columbia, and in literature from Stanford. Following his university years, he intensively engaged both Western and Eastern forms of spiritual practice. Eventually, at the age of thirty (after a final period of intense spiritual endeavor), Adi Da was re-established in the freedom of the illumined condition he had known in his earliest life. After that, he began to offer formal instruction in spiritual practice to those who came to him creating (over the course of several decades) what is now an unprecedented body of spiritual, philosophical, and practical writings, as well as his literary masterwork (the Orpheus trilogy), and an immense body of visual art. In 2007, his artwork was shown as a collateral exhibition at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Adi Da has also curated a library of the world s greatest practical, philosophical, religious, and spiritual wisdom, and his annotated bibliography of this collection (currently running to over 8,000 books, videotapes, DVDs, and CDs) is entitled The Basket of Tolerance. Adi Da is not political in any ordinary sense of the word. Rather, his address to humanity and the process of civilization comes from his lifelong intention of communicating the truth of existence uncovering both the essential driving forces of limitation and suffering and the means to go beyond those forces.

Review

This extraordinary collection of illuminating essays offers a deep diagnosis of humanity's predicament. The cure Adi Da prescribes, based on higher laws, is simultaneously radical, urgent, and straightforward. Adi Da's is a uniquely authentic and compelling voice in this global age. --ROLF C. CARRIERE, former U.N. officialand Senior Adviser to the Nonviolent Peaceforce

Edition details

• Publisher: The Dawn Horse Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1570972397
• ISBN 13: 9781570972393
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 36