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This book is composed entirely of talks initiated between Bubba free John and groups of his disciples during the first year of his "public" life, from April, 1972, to March, 1973. In The Method of the Siddhas, Bubba discourses on this great spiritual practice of Satsang, which he says is the ancient method of teaching, the great and radical tradition of all the "heaven-born" Siddhas. Satsang, or the condition of conscious relationship to such a Siddha-Guru, is the ancient and timeless means adopted by these great ones for the sake of the transmission of living Truth. In The Method of the Siddhas we find an acknowledged Spiritual Master formulating a progressive communication of the nature and method of all the Siddhas. Here he is concerned to make known the responsibilities and conditions of discipleship, and all that is essential in life and understanding before the individual will be prepared for the graces and responsibilities of the highest form of sadhana, or spiritual practice.
- Sales Rank: #539450 in Books
- Published on: 1973-02
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .88" h x 5.25" w x 8.50" l, .92 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 364 pages
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
An All-Time Great Spiritual Text
By L. Ron Gardner
When I first read "The Method of the Siddhas" in 1973, I knew it was a great spiritual book; but until a few years later when I actually began to practice the "method," the Way of Radical Understanding and Relational Enquiry, as described by author-guru Franklin Jones (later to become Bubba Free John, Da Free John, and finally Adi Da), I didn't know how great. Eventually, I realized that the first chapter of the book, "Understanding," was the single greatest chapter ever written on the gnostic practice of directly and immediately living Truth (and obviating the self-contraction).
Adi Da initially, and naively, believed that the ordinary people who came to him could easily learn and practice the Way of Radical Understanding. But in a few years it became apparent that none of his disciples really "understood" (to the point of Heart-realization). And not long before his death (in 2008), he bemoaned the fact that no one had "understood." I was never a Daist (a devotee of his and member of his community), but I do "understand" and still practice the Way of Radical Understanding, regularly abiding in, and as, the Heart--even though I have not cut the Heart-knot and therefore am not fully, unbrokenly, en-Light-ened.
The "Method of the Siddhas" is a mind-blowing spiritual text--so profound that the renowned Zen scholar Alan Watts, after reading it, declared (with regard to Adi Da): "I have been waiting for an Avatar all my life, and now he has come." Watts died not long after his statement, so we don't know what his take would have been had he lived to see, years later, the heavy criticism directed at Da's "Crazy Wisdom" behavior and spiritual cult. Ken Wilber, the acclaimed Integral philosopher, also raved about Da, upholding him as the most enlightened guru on the planet. But once Da and Daism began to come under assault from disaffected devotees claiming personal abuse, Wilber effectively disassociated himself from the religion.
My take regarding Da and Daism is: don't throw the baby out with the bath water. With this in mind, I cannot recommend "The Method of the Siddhas" highly enough--and for two cents (the cost for a used copy of another version of this out-of-print classic), plus shipping, you can find out why many consider Adi Da a spiritual genius, and why, as Da put it, "only radical (or gone-to-the-root) understanding avails."
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
New version of this book
By yours truly
'My "Bright" Word' is the name of the new edition of the collection of classic spiritual discourses originally published as 'The Method of the Siddhas'. You can find it on Amazon.
In this extraordinary series of discourses from His early Teaching Years, Adi Da communicates an exquisite summary of His "radical" Teaching-Revelation, and He passionately offers to everyone the gift of the heart-relationship to Him (or Satsang with Him), as the True Means of Divine Liberation.
In this book, Adi Da elucidates the fundamentals of "radical" self-understanding, which principles are the foundation of His Revelation of the Way of Adidam. These include:
*The basic principle of egoic existence, the search, which Avatar Adi Da later Communicated in its simplest terms: "You want to feel good--because you feel bad. Therefore, you are seeking--in order to feel good."
*The essential ego-fault and the means for overcoming it: (1) Truth cannot be Realized by seeking for it. The seeking itself is the problem. When there is no seeking, Truth (or Reality) is Obvious. (2) Freedom (or Divine Liberation) is not dependent on any objective entity or process. Freedom (or Divine Liberation) Is Always Already the Case.
*The single logic of egoic life: The logic (or process) of separation itself, of enclosure and immunity, informs every function of the living being, every experience, every act, every event.
*The Grace-Given process of "radical" self-understanding: (1) Observe your own self-contracting activity. Understand your own self-contracting activity. Transcend your own self-contracting activity.
This book is a gift Avatar Adi Da has Given to all--for the purpose of Divine Liberation for those who choose It.
"In modern language, this volume teaches the ancient all-time trans-egoic truths. It transforms the student by paradox and by example. Consciousness, understanding, and finally the awakened Self are the rewards. What more can anyone want?"
--Elmer Green, Ph.D.
Director Emeritus, Center for Applied Psychophysiology, The Menninger Clinic
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
THE SECOND BOOK OF ADI DA (THEN KNOWN AS "FRANKLIN JONES")
By Steven H Propp
Adi Da Samraj (1939-2008) was born Franklin Albert Jones, but was also known as Bubba Free John, Da Free John, Da Love-Ananda, etc., until from 1991 until his death he settled on Adi Da Love-Ananda Samraj [or just "Adi Da"]. He became a famous and controversial spiritual teacher beginning in the 1970s counterculture. His movement has been criticized as cultic, abusive, etc., although his followers remain devoted to him, and often live in one of his five "Adidam" churches (including his main one on an island in Fiji). He wrote many books, including Garbage and the Goddess, Four Fundamental Questions, Aham Da Asmi (Beloved, I Am Da), Ruchira Avatara Gita: The Avataric Way of the Divine Heart-Master, Da Love-Ananda Gita: The Free Avataric Gift of the Divine Love-Bliss, Hridaya Rosary: Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction, Eleutherios (The Only Truth That Sets The Heart Free), and his autobiography, The knee of listening [revised as The Knee Of Listening: The Divine Ordeal of the Avataric Incarnation of Conscious Light], etc.
He states, "What I call the Heart IS consciousness. It is called Atman, the very Self or Nature of the apparent individual. It is not a separate organ or a separate faculty. It is identical to what is called Brahman, the formless, absolute, omnipresent Divine Reality. It is very consciousness, absolute bliss, unqualified existence. It is intuition of unspeakable God. Anything secondary that we could call 'mind,' body or brain, any function at all is contained within the 'Heart' like an event in a universe." (Pg. 10) He adds, "If you understand what you call your formal meditation, that understanding is meditation. The understanding of your activity is meditation. If you have an inclination to do some particular kind of sitting... whatever, all of that is an activity that you are already TENDING to do... The point is the understanding of that whole ordinary motivation, the process in this moment that is producing this particular tendency that is 'formal meditation.' Intelligence is the fundamental meditation." (Pg. 21) He notes, "The Truth that ALREADY is the case is the Truth from this one's point of view. I live very naturally in the human world, and its responsibilities do not make me 'unspiritual.' Its responsibilities are a creative manifestation, requiring intelligence." (Pg. 52)
He says about attachment to drugs, "it has no purpose whatsoever in real spiritual life. It is an aggravation. It toxifies the body, creates one illusion on top of the next. The person involved with drugs and its illusory 'spiritual' culture is back and forth every day. He is not ready for Satsang. Drugs are a heavy alternative until he understands the limitations of that bondage. The other forms of stimulation men use, like tobacco, alcohol, coffee and such, should be abandoned as well." (Pg. 66) He suggests, "the sex-function, in Satsang, is self-transcending... And such fulfillment is realized without ... the search for celibacy... Loving human communion is the HUMAN fulfillment of the sex-function. Therefore, marriage is a most appropriate condition who live in Satsang with the Guru. It is appropriate. It does not make you 'spiritual.'" (Pg. 74)
He asserts, "The Guru is not some impotent old rascal. The Guru should be able to populate the earth. The Guru is strong. He is alive. He enjoys mastery over the sex-impulse. He may, as a spontaneous practice, be entirely celibate, even in marriage. But he is not in any case empty or obstructed in relation to the life-force." (Pg. 112) He adds, "People are suffering from their idiot Gurus. If I see a phony telling everybody he is God-Exclusive, I am likely to tell you so. Why should I stand for such lies, that exploitation of men, that reinforcement of suffering?" (Pg. 119) Later, he adds, "Dead Gurus can't kick a__!" (Pg. 225)
He advises, "My conditions are not some massive thing. I do not ask you to become a saint before you come to me. Mine are simple, natural, ordinary requirements, but they are sufficient to turn away those who are not ready for Satsang, while they attract those for whom Satsang can live." (Pg. 145) He adds, "Spiritual life is CONSCIOUS life. It doesn't really exist until your consciousness comes into play, becomes active. Spiritual life is an intelligent process. It is not a kind of mediumship, where you simply enjoy certain experiences, certain energies, a certain shakti." (Pg. 189) He adds, "The most difficult thing for a man to achieve is ordinariness. But the primary condition of Satsang, of true life, is the realization of ordinariness." (Pg. 295)
Adi Da is somewhat of an "acquired taste," and he definitely doesn't appeal to everyone. Still, his earliest books (such as this one, "Garbage and the Goddess," etc.) are perhaps of more interest to the average "seeker" than his later ones.
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