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Is this Shangrila?

I saw these news clips tonight online, one about Shangri-la, and the next one about death… right next to each other.

You have an idea that somehow that time is going to take care of everything. You must understand that the mechanics of conditional existence do not lead you to Happiness. They do not do anything of the kind. Happiness is a matter of understanding and transcending all of it. This is something, of course, that you must come to understand and realize by making a serious investigation of conditional existence.

The World-Friend, Adi Da, from Easy Death, The Choice of Happiness, page 136
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Do Not Play Games with Sex

Untitled, from The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, page 29
Untitled, from The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, page 29

A quote from the World-Teacher, Adi Da:

Do not play games with sex. It is a very powerful deluding force, and a diversion from the Inherent Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State of Reality Itself, into conditional (or cosmic) illusions.

You do not even see the human body as it is. You see it through pictures, through mind. You put on a mummers’ show for one another. In the most common case, women are the “something”, the sexual “object” for men–and men are the same for women. It is a style. But it is also an illusion about you. It is a game….

from “The Only Sorrowless Domain”, the Epilogue in Always Enact Fidelity To Me

The image is Untitled, from The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, page 29

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Carbon Dating Oneself

How old am I?

I’m so old my childhood memories are in black and white.

Me and my imaginary Dad, 1873.