A collection of six essays including the delightful “The Way That I Teach The Dog In My House” and “Be The Open Hand” (excerpted below). This priceless instruction from Adi Da illuminates the essentially non-verbal process of spontaneous devotion to Him. He has described this anciently known process of turning to the Realizer on sight as “the Ancient Walk-About Way”.
The ego wants to keep its body, its emotion, its mind, its breathing--therefore, the totality of the body-mind--fixed in its own handgrip, and always let to wander in its own patterning and impulses.
That is what every ego is doing--preserving body, emotion, mind, and breath as a possession of ego-"I", with all the faculties of the body-mind wrapped up in the separate and constantly separative presumption and purposiveness of independent and "self"-fulfilling "point of view".
The right and true practice of devotion to Me--which is the moment to moment whole bodily turning of the faculties to Me--is intensively counter-egoic and intrinsically ego-transcending. If you, as My devotee, rightly and truly practice devotion to Me, you (thus and thereby) forget all ego-possessed patterning--and, by devotionally responsive conformity to Me, you are brought into right life and a Spiritual process of a Transcendental nature.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj