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Adi Da Samraj (born Franklin Albert Jones, 1939–2008) was an American spiritual leader and teacher. Although he changed his name numerous times, he is usually referred to as Bubba Free John or Da Free John in his earlier years, and as Adi Da from 1991 until his passing. He created the religious movement Adidam and authored several books on its teachings.

Adi Da Samraj
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Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun

“Conscious exercise” is a “technology of love,” an approach of radiant feeling attention, that can be applied to all systems of physical exercise, all games, all play, and all ordinary activity....

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FindCenter Quotes ImageEvery negative complex of emotion conceals a conflict, a problem or dilemma made up of contradictory or opposing motives or desires. Self-observation must recover these emotional seeds of the dramatization of life if real control of habits is to occur.

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Adi Da Samraj: “What Occurs After Death Is Determined by How You Live”

Adi Da addresses the fact that where one's attention is fixed during life affects one's attention and destiny after life.

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Adi Da Samraj: The Bodily Location of Happiness

A classic discourse given by Avatar Adi Da in 1981 on the nature of True Happiness and how it can be Realized moment to moment, but not through seeking it.

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Adi Da Samraj: A Devotee Speaks About Growing Up in Adi Da's Community of Adidam

A devotee, who was born into Adi Da's Adidam community, speaks about his experience of growing into and developing his own direct relationship to Adi Da Samraj. This led to him to living and serving Adi Da at the primary Hermitage Ashram in Fiji.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageEverything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

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The Incarnation of Love: Radical Spiritual Wisdom and Practical Instruction on Self-Transcending Love and Service in All Relationships

Everyone wants to experience the happiness of loving and being loved -- and in this remarkable book Avatar Adi Da Samraj offers insight and practical instruction on the "discipline of love" -- discovering the true source of love, and transmitting that love to all others.

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Adi Da Samraj: Growing Up in Adidam

Growing Up in Adi Da's Community,a devotee who spent his early life in Adidam, talks about how in his early teens, as many teenagers do, decided to explore what the world had to offer.

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Feeling Without Limitation

A Discourse in which Avatar Adi Da describes all the ways in which people try to make themselves feel good from eating dinner to believing in God even though none of these methods can create permanent Happiness.

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Overview of the Seven Stages of Life - Adi Da Samraj

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