Before we begin

Lets go back

Lets start again

from where things have a beginning

in a story. . .

 

 

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Stories

 

Beware of Storytellers | (audio)

  Why We Tell Stories (audio)
 

Harper's Ferry(audio)
 

Taj Mahal | (audio)
   
 

Train Out of Cicero | (audio)
 

Set me as a Seal upon thy Heart (audio)
 

Hanuman Story for RamDass (audio)
 

De Felly Frog | (audio)
 

A Thousand and One Arabian Nights (audio)

A Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Movie)
 

Three Non-Existent Princes (audio)

The Mad Elephant | (audio)
 

The Seed and the Soil
 

The Cure of the Mustard Seed | (audio)

 

King Hussein
 

Tragedy Fate Nemesis
 

Wish Fulfilling Tree | (audio)
 

Let Me Tell You a Story

 

The Sadhus
 

Character and Fate | (audio)
  God Willing | (audio)

 

23 Psalm
 
 
  The Nadi Readers - India 2004 | (pics)
 
The Bear, The Rabbit and The Man (audio)
 


Going to Town(audio)

Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby(audio)

The Water of Life (audio)

A Thorn, a Gold Coin and The Law of Karma
 
Poetry


Babushka (audio)

Quadraplegic Love (audio)

Mango Butt and Veda Head | (audio)

Like the Worm (audio)

I have Lost Myself (audio)

Breathe Easier (audio)

A Small Little Puddle

Tall Trees (audio)

Those Calves (audio)
What I Call My Heart (audio)
A Poets Hope is in Dying| (audio)

Sometimes You Need a Miracle(audio)

What Kind of Praise
The River of Drowning

Pourin Like A River(audio)

Reading Rumi

Slaves of Each Other

Gravity's Easy Way (audio)

The Love of a Woman (audio)

Something Left Out (audio)

What it is I am Practicing For (audio)

My Appetite (audio)

The Law of Karma and The Rainbow Grocery Reggae (audio)

Job's Friends (audio)

Big Doggy an Da Wabo (audio)

Lonely Traveler (audio)

When I Was No Longer

Cleaning House

Now That You Have Left

Prayers

Gestures of Giving

 

 

 

(Standing by a roadside sign in Northern India)

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One finger pointing up and one finger pointing down

 

It could be said that most of India does not exist

in the world of science and technology,

it exists in the world of 'God'

a world in which the Mystery of all life

is still felt to be breathing.

India is a land of colorful paradoxes

of Divine ideas and representations,

of temples, saints and sadhus,

sacred rivers and holy mountains

and even road signs devoted to the Supreme.

 

I have only 'ideas and stories' about what is going on

or who or what 'God' is

The journey where I have placed my feet seems blessed

and the mystery in which we live

grows ever deeper

 

I am standing

on a road that follows the Ganges

into the Himalayan Mountains

about 15 miles up river

from Rishikesh

I have just bathed in the beautiful, clear sacred river

and sat in the

thunderously silent and ancient cave

used by the Rishi Vasishta 

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" All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant

once the intention of life becomes love,

rather than dependence on love."

-Adi Da Samraj

 

Vasishta Gufa (cave)

 

 

Here are some stories

and ideas

about

'What Is'

or what has been called-

Vidya or knowledge:

 

Since ancient times, mankind has sought for knowledge.
But, all 'knowledge' is not the same.
My teacher,
Adida, spoke of what is meant by knowledge:

 

"I find people’s losses and sorrows to be heartbreaking and terrible,
an immense burden.
And, I am inevitably sympathetic and bless people in their trouble.
However, you must understand; That is the nature of this place.
It is not utopia. It is not paradise.
It is a place of death, of endings, of suffering.
Brief amusements.
It is not enough.

One day, it will be your death.
All will pass. Everything will pass.
Everything will be lost. Everything will change.
Every conceivable separation will occur.
You must know the place you are in
and live according to that knowledge."

-AdiDa

 

All of these stories are about what I have
heard and experienced about that 'knowledge'
They are a 'Consideration' of life

 

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It cannot be stolen by thieves

Nor taken away by kings

 

It cannot be divided among brothers

It is not a load on your shoulders

 

If spent . . . It always increases

 

The wealth of knowledge

Is the most superior wealth of all

 

- Vidyaprashna

 

 

 

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