The Perfect Tradition (The Perfect Knowledge Series)

In 1980, two devotees of Adi Da visited the Tibetan master Chogyam Trungpa and showed him video footage of Adi Da. After the presentation, Chogyam Trungpa expressed his respect for the authenticity of Adi Da, and said: It is tremendously difficult to begin a new tradition. Adi Da is working to establish 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 . The Way of Adidam combines and transcends different orientations represented in Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. Adi Da 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 first book of the Perfect Knowledge series Adi Da makes clear why the Way of Adidam is a final revelation, a summery of all traditions. He does not merely say this to be believed, it is to be found out by all those interested. "From time to time in human history, Great Sages have appeared, who have, to one degree or another, agreed to instruct devotees. A truly Great Sage speaks as the Very Condition, the Radiant Ocean of Being, That is Reality. Adi Da Samraj, from the beginning of his lifetime, has shown the signs of such a one. The teaching of Adi Da Samraj is a great gift to all who need to understand the human event from the viewpoint of Ultimate Truth, beyond the winds of doctrine and the competing philosophies that have made and unmade the cultures of humankind." From the Introduction by Carolyn Lee, PhD