PERFECT TRADITION: The Wisdom-Way Of The Ancient Sages & Its Fulfillment In The Way Of "Perfect Knowledge"
by Samraj, Adi Da
ISBN: 1570971978
Publisher: Dawn Horse Press
"Adi Da Samraj is working to establish, in his lifetime, the Way of “Perfect Knowledge” (or Way of Adidam) as a new tradition—a total culture of life and practice that includes and serves the process of Realization from the beginner's level to the ultimate stages, or “Perfect Practice”, of the Way. At the same time, His Way of “Perfect Knowledge”, does not, as He says here, appear “in a vacuum”. In order to indicate that the Way of Adidam is continuous with Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, and the actual completion of these traditions (and the entire Great Tradition), Adi Da Samraj has given his way alternative names that indicate this connection and continuity—including “Advaitayana Buddhism”, and “Buddhayana Advaitism”. The Way of Adidam combines and transcends the two different orientations represented: the emphasis (in Buddhism) on discriminating what is merely conditional, or “not-self”, and the emphasis (in Advaita Vedanta) on directly identifying with the Absolute Reality, or Transcendental Self. Adi Da Samraj calls for a “dual sensitivity”—a sensitivity to what is merely conditional and passing, on the one hand, and to what is non-conditional, transcendental and Divine, on the other.In this book Adi Da makes clear why the Way of Adidam is a summery of all traditions. He does not merely say this to be believed, it is to be found out by all those interested in Divine Liberation."
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