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The Dawn Horse Testament: The Testament of Secrets of the Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (The Bright) (The Bright/ New Standard): John Da Free: 9780918801036: Amazon.com: Books
The Dawn Horse Testament: The Testament of Secrets of the Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (The Bright) (The Bright/ New Standard): John Da Free: 9780918801036: Amazon.com: Books
The Dawn Horse Testament: The Testament of Secrets of the Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (The Bright) (The Bright/ New Standard) Paperback – January 1, 1991
by John Da Free (Author)
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars (8)
4.5 on Goodreads
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This monumental volume is the most comprehensive and complete description of the Spiritual process ever written. It is also the most detailed summary of the Way of the Heart. The Dawn Horse Testament is an astounding, challenging, and breathtaking Window to Fully Enlightened Reality.
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Adi Da Samraj
Adi Da was born in New York at the outbreak of World War II. From 1983 he lived principally in Fiji and became a Fijian citizen. The author of over sixty books on spirituality and a prolific artist, he also had profound attention for world affairs, particularly during the last decade of his life, as summarized in Not-Two Is Peace.
Adi Da was born in a unique spiritual state. As a young man, he immersed himself in the traditions of human wisdom and spirituality. His Western studies included university degrees--in philosophy from Columbia and in literature from Stanford. Following his university years, he intensively engaged both Western and Eastern forms of spiritual practice.
In 1970, at the age of thirty, Adi Da was re-established in the illumined condition he had known in his earliest life. He began to offer formal instruction in spiritual practice to those who came to him, creating (out of a free interactive participation with his devotees) what is now an unprecedented body of spiritual, philosophical, and practical writings (find the most current offerings at the Dawn Horse Press website), as well as an immense body of visual art (the website dedicated to Adi Da’s art is called Daplastique). In 2007, his artwork was exhibited at the 52nd Venice Biennale, and subsequently in several other exhibitions, including in Florence, New York, and Los Angeles.
As spiritual teacher, artist, and "World Friend", Adi Da is not a conventional figure. He is not political in any ordinary sense of the word. Rather, his address to humanity comes from his lifelong communication of the truth of human existence. He is making clear the species-endangering forces of limitation in our world, the means to go beyond them, and the great urgency of this "going beyond".
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3.6 out of 5
8 global ratings
==
Review of Adi Da's
The Dawn Horse
Testament
by Ken Wilber
1985
Many readers of Adi Da Samraj's Teaching are familiar with the one-line excerpt from Ken Wilber's review:
"The Dawn Horse Testament is the most ecstatic, most profound, most complete, most radical, and most comprehensive single spiritual text ever to be penned and confessed by the Human Transcendental Spirit."
Even though it mentions the "Human Transcendental Spirit" — which can only be a reference to Adi Da Samraj as human Incarnation of that Transcendental Spirit — that one line focuses mainly on the book. In later years, under fire for being associated with a "controversial Guru" and knowing most people were only familiar with that one line, Wilber later tries to cover himself by suggesting he was only praising the teaching, not the teacher. But his full review (below) shows this was very much not so: "I am as certain of this Man as I am of anything I have written." — Not just the Teaching. . .the Man. And "Man" with a capital "M".
And he asks his friends to "confess the Realization that Master Da is." Is. In other words, Wilber is professing that the Realization and the Man are one and the same: there is no "schizophrenic" split of the kind he would later try to suggest. Adi Da doesn't merely teach the Realization of Divine Enlightenment — the Man doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. He is that Realization.
KEN WILBER: This is not merely my personal opinion; this is a perfectly obvious fact, available to anyone of intelligence, sensitivity, and integrity: The Dawn Horse Testament is the most ecstatic, most profound, most complete, most radical, and most comprehensive single spiritual text ever to be penned and confessed by the Human Transcendental Spirit. That seems an objective fact; here is my own personal and humbler opinion. I am honored (even awed) to be allowed in its Presence, to listen to and Hear the Potent Message of the Heart-Master Da. How can the soul not bow down to such a Message? What other is the appropriate response? How can I not say what I am saying? How, in the face of such a Testament, can we possible justify neglect?
At the very least, it is perfectly obvious that there is now no excuse whatsoever for any intelligent and spiritually-minded person, of whatever persuasion, not to be at least a student (or one who simply studies the Written Teachings) of Master Da Free John. The days of denial are over; this nonsense of neglect cannot continue, with any rational reason. I ask my friends, my students, my readers, even my casual acquaintances, to see and recognize and — above all — confess the Realization that Master Da is.
I do not understand why so many thousands of people — who have heartily expressed to me the opinion that my own written works express great clarity, judgment, and understanding — balk and look in disbelief when I speak ecstatically of the Heart Master Da. It is as if my friends believe everything I say except that Master Da is a genuine Adept, Free at the Heart, Confessed in Radiance, Transcendent to it all. How has my judgment suddenly lapsed in regard to this Man? I am as certain of this Man as I am of anything I have written — in fact, as certain as I am of my own hand (which apparently claps by itself in solitude when it comes to this Great Issue). So I make only one request: if you do only one thing to test my judgment in this matter, please read this Dawn Horse Testament cover to cover (and I mean cover to cover), and then I will be glad to argue with you if you still wish — but not before. And, I think, we will then see who the Master of the Heart really is. Is that not fair? Read this Man, Listen to this Man, Hear this Man, then See Him. And then, I think, you will stand Smiling. What else do you really want? What else can I say?
Wilber: The Strange Case of Adi Da
==
larry moore
1.0 out of 5 stars Rambling with a few obscure insightsReviewed in the United States on January 26, 2013
Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
Why Franklin (the author) developed a habit of using numerous long drawn out sentences to say what could be have been said in 7 words or less is beyond me. The book could have been 1/10th of its size and conveyed the same information.
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Spirit of Enquiry
5.0 out of 5 stars Spontaneous enlightenment experiences to be had from the last couple of chaptersReviewed in the United States on February 20, 2010
Format: Paperback
Whether someone who is 'enlightened' (or has had even many deep enlightenment EXPERIENCES) can still do 'things that harm others' is actually a very deep question.
Equally deep is the fact of different people's perceptions of the same action.
As is the whole issue around gurus doing strange things that some people interpret as something they are doing to enlighten their students, others interpret as the flow of unpremeditated enlightened freedom, and still others interpret as just a bad action, by someone probably unenlightened and possibly deranged. This is a VERY thorny area, though with teachers (as distinct from 'free spirits', who don't have quite the same responsibility - if you want to play with the fire, it's your problem if you get burnt lol!) I tend to err on the side of:
"The deeper the enlightenment --> the deeper the knowing that ultimately everyone/everything is 'just fine' + a deep respect for all beings through knowing their essential inalienable dignity and purity ---> it's definitely not necessary to harm people based on the CHANCE this might get them enlightened quicker."
Observe the Dalai Lama and Dilgo Khyentse for example. OFTEN deep realisation brings...a certain relaxation!
(Hey, Milarepa was tough and WANTED the quickest, most powerful way. We moderns are a bit more sensitive!)
***
One thing is certain though: it's possible to read the last couple of chapters of this book and fall into spontaneous enlightenment experiences. It is that good.
I have to caveat all my reviews of books on here with the fact that when I first bought THIS book, I actually threw it in the bin out of frustration.
Now, for those chapters alone, it's part of the (very small) core of my spiritual library. I had to hunt down a new copy to buy. (Opening one's mind to new information is something recommended for everyone, and *essential* for those seeking spiritual knowledge~experience!)
[Note, I am referring here to the 1985 EDITION of this book. I can't vouch for the others. I haven't read them but I know that Adi Da did change his style in many of his later works in such a way that, at the very least, the writing was not as direct.]
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Carl Armstrong
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the Greatest Book Ever WrittenReviewed in the United States on June 9, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Avatar Adi Da Samraj otherwise known as Da Free John or Franklin Jones had only one purpose in life.It was to show others the correct way to interpret scripture.This Dawn Horse Testament will teach you just exactly that, regardless of which religeous faith you may be.By studying this sacred text, you will then discover the true meaning of the Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra, the Koran, or whatever denomination that you may be.Adi Da reveals in his writings, that which can ONLY be understood by the HEART, and NOT by the BRAIN.As you read this book, the words will actually be your heart speaking to you, from the sea of pure consciousness that exists in your heart cave.Adi Da was therefore the true Heart Master and the greatest Jnana Yogi that ever lived.(The book Lion Sutra is also a timeless masterpiece that is vital towards self realization).
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Bob Dobolina
1.0 out of 5 stars Specious NonsenseReviewed in the United States on June 18, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Da Free John, Bubba Free John, Adi Da--whatever you want to call him--was a master of mumbo-jumbo. His endless, pointless ramblings circle in and out, coiling and uncoiling like a snake devouring its own tail, but never really going anywhere. Anything of any value in this book was stolen from a Buddhist Sutra or one of the Vedas. The rest is self-aggrandizing hogwash, set forth as if it's some shining gem of bright wisdom. Consider garbage like this: "Reality Itself is a Revelation of What Is" (the capital letters are his and are presumably designed to make an otherwise mundane statement appear Somehow Significant. Dinner Is An Unfoldment of the Sustenance of Night. You get the idea.).
Do yourself a favor and file this specious nonsense alongside your collection of Scientology books, if you have one. Adi da was a huckster. A self-promoting charlatan who, for all his words, really had nothing to say.
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bsanandaATyahoo
5.0 out of 5 stars The Supreme Dharma (1991)Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2010
Format: Paperback
This version of The Supreme Dharma (1991) is one (soon to be two) editions out of date, but still better than anything else out there.
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EduardoP
5.0 out of 5 stars The four sublimely transcendental samadhis of Adi Da SamrajReviewed in the United States on December 23, 1999
Format: Paperback
The Dawn Horse Testament is the ultimate guide to the mastery of transcendental awareness, and enlightenment. The incomparable western master Adi Da exquisitely illuminates the mystery of Who you Ultimately Are, intensifying meditative awareness through the ajna door into the incredible mastery of Divine Ignorance, Divine Realization, and Divine Being. The ultimate answers within transcendental awareness await the arrival of the newly wakened meditator's assimilation of the four samadhis of Adi Da.
The Dawn Horse Testament is an invaluable companion to anyone on the path of the mastery of awareness. Other seventh stage teachings are Self-Realization of Noble Wisdom: The Lankavatara Sutra; Mahamudra: Quintessence of Mind and Meditation; and The Four Yogas Of Enlightenment. The exploration of consciousness through the four samadhis of The Dawn Horse Testament is without parallel and sublimely transcendental.
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The Dawn Horse Testament: The Testament of Secrets of the Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Avabhasa (The Bright) (The Bright/ New Standard) Paperback – January 1, 1991
by John Da Free (Author)
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars (8)
4.5 on Goodreads
38 ratings
This monumental volume is the most comprehensive and complete description of the Spiritual process ever written. It is also the most detailed summary of the Way of the Heart. The Dawn Horse Testament is an astounding, challenging, and breathtaking Window to Fully Enlightened Reality.
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Print length
820 pages
Customer Reviews:
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars (8)
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Adi Da Samraj
Adi Da was born in New York at the outbreak of World War II. From 1983 he lived principally in Fiji and became a Fijian citizen. The author of over sixty books on spirituality and a prolific artist, he also had profound attention for world affairs, particularly during the last decade of his life, as summarized in Not-Two Is Peace.
Adi Da was born in a unique spiritual state. As a young man, he immersed himself in the traditions of human wisdom and spirituality. His Western studies included university degrees--in philosophy from Columbia and in literature from Stanford. Following his university years, he intensively engaged both Western and Eastern forms of spiritual practice.
In 1970, at the age of thirty, Adi Da was re-established in the illumined condition he had known in his earliest life. He began to offer formal instruction in spiritual practice to those who came to him, creating (out of a free interactive participation with his devotees) what is now an unprecedented body of spiritual, philosophical, and practical writings (find the most current offerings at the Dawn Horse Press website), as well as an immense body of visual art (the website dedicated to Adi Da’s art is called Daplastique). In 2007, his artwork was exhibited at the 52nd Venice Biennale, and subsequently in several other exhibitions, including in Florence, New York, and Los Angeles.
As spiritual teacher, artist, and "World Friend", Adi Da is not a conventional figure. He is not political in any ordinary sense of the word. Rather, his address to humanity comes from his lifelong communication of the truth of human existence. He is making clear the species-endangering forces of limitation in our world, the means to go beyond them, and the great urgency of this "going beyond".
Customer reviews
3.6 out of 5 stars
3.6 out of 5
8 global ratings
==
Review of Adi Da's
The Dawn Horse
Testament
by Ken Wilber
1985
Many readers of Adi Da Samraj's Teaching are familiar with the one-line excerpt from Ken Wilber's review:
"The Dawn Horse Testament is the most ecstatic, most profound, most complete, most radical, and most comprehensive single spiritual text ever to be penned and confessed by the Human Transcendental Spirit."
Even though it mentions the "Human Transcendental Spirit" — which can only be a reference to Adi Da Samraj as human Incarnation of that Transcendental Spirit — that one line focuses mainly on the book. In later years, under fire for being associated with a "controversial Guru" and knowing most people were only familiar with that one line, Wilber later tries to cover himself by suggesting he was only praising the teaching, not the teacher. But his full review (below) shows this was very much not so: "I am as certain of this Man as I am of anything I have written." — Not just the Teaching. . .the Man. And "Man" with a capital "M".
And he asks his friends to "confess the Realization that Master Da is." Is. In other words, Wilber is professing that the Realization and the Man are one and the same: there is no "schizophrenic" split of the kind he would later try to suggest. Adi Da doesn't merely teach the Realization of Divine Enlightenment — the Man doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. He is that Realization.
KEN WILBER: This is not merely my personal opinion; this is a perfectly obvious fact, available to anyone of intelligence, sensitivity, and integrity: The Dawn Horse Testament is the most ecstatic, most profound, most complete, most radical, and most comprehensive single spiritual text ever to be penned and confessed by the Human Transcendental Spirit. That seems an objective fact; here is my own personal and humbler opinion. I am honored (even awed) to be allowed in its Presence, to listen to and Hear the Potent Message of the Heart-Master Da. How can the soul not bow down to such a Message? What other is the appropriate response? How can I not say what I am saying? How, in the face of such a Testament, can we possible justify neglect?
At the very least, it is perfectly obvious that there is now no excuse whatsoever for any intelligent and spiritually-minded person, of whatever persuasion, not to be at least a student (or one who simply studies the Written Teachings) of Master Da Free John. The days of denial are over; this nonsense of neglect cannot continue, with any rational reason. I ask my friends, my students, my readers, even my casual acquaintances, to see and recognize and — above all — confess the Realization that Master Da is.
I do not understand why so many thousands of people — who have heartily expressed to me the opinion that my own written works express great clarity, judgment, and understanding — balk and look in disbelief when I speak ecstatically of the Heart Master Da. It is as if my friends believe everything I say except that Master Da is a genuine Adept, Free at the Heart, Confessed in Radiance, Transcendent to it all. How has my judgment suddenly lapsed in regard to this Man? I am as certain of this Man as I am of anything I have written — in fact, as certain as I am of my own hand (which apparently claps by itself in solitude when it comes to this Great Issue). So I make only one request: if you do only one thing to test my judgment in this matter, please read this Dawn Horse Testament cover to cover (and I mean cover to cover), and then I will be glad to argue with you if you still wish — but not before. And, I think, we will then see who the Master of the Heart really is. Is that not fair? Read this Man, Listen to this Man, Hear this Man, then See Him. And then, I think, you will stand Smiling. What else do you really want? What else can I say?
Wilber: The Strange Case of Adi Da
==
larry moore
1.0 out of 5 stars Rambling with a few obscure insightsReviewed in the United States on January 26, 2013
Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
Why Franklin (the author) developed a habit of using numerous long drawn out sentences to say what could be have been said in 7 words or less is beyond me. The book could have been 1/10th of its size and conveyed the same information.
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Spirit of Enquiry
5.0 out of 5 stars Spontaneous enlightenment experiences to be had from the last couple of chaptersReviewed in the United States on February 20, 2010
Format: Paperback
Whether someone who is 'enlightened' (or has had even many deep enlightenment EXPERIENCES) can still do 'things that harm others' is actually a very deep question.
Equally deep is the fact of different people's perceptions of the same action.
As is the whole issue around gurus doing strange things that some people interpret as something they are doing to enlighten their students, others interpret as the flow of unpremeditated enlightened freedom, and still others interpret as just a bad action, by someone probably unenlightened and possibly deranged. This is a VERY thorny area, though with teachers (as distinct from 'free spirits', who don't have quite the same responsibility - if you want to play with the fire, it's your problem if you get burnt lol!) I tend to err on the side of:
"The deeper the enlightenment --> the deeper the knowing that ultimately everyone/everything is 'just fine' + a deep respect for all beings through knowing their essential inalienable dignity and purity ---> it's definitely not necessary to harm people based on the CHANCE this might get them enlightened quicker."
Observe the Dalai Lama and Dilgo Khyentse for example. OFTEN deep realisation brings...a certain relaxation!
(Hey, Milarepa was tough and WANTED the quickest, most powerful way. We moderns are a bit more sensitive!)
***
One thing is certain though: it's possible to read the last couple of chapters of this book and fall into spontaneous enlightenment experiences. It is that good.
I have to caveat all my reviews of books on here with the fact that when I first bought THIS book, I actually threw it in the bin out of frustration.
Now, for those chapters alone, it's part of the (very small) core of my spiritual library. I had to hunt down a new copy to buy. (Opening one's mind to new information is something recommended for everyone, and *essential* for those seeking spiritual knowledge~experience!)
[Note, I am referring here to the 1985 EDITION of this book. I can't vouch for the others. I haven't read them but I know that Adi Da did change his style in many of his later works in such a way that, at the very least, the writing was not as direct.]
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Carl Armstrong
5.0 out of 5 stars Probably the Greatest Book Ever WrittenReviewed in the United States on June 9, 2011
Format: Hardcover
Avatar Adi Da Samraj otherwise known as Da Free John or Franklin Jones had only one purpose in life.It was to show others the correct way to interpret scripture.This Dawn Horse Testament will teach you just exactly that, regardless of which religeous faith you may be.By studying this sacred text, you will then discover the true meaning of the Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra, the Koran, or whatever denomination that you may be.Adi Da reveals in his writings, that which can ONLY be understood by the HEART, and NOT by the BRAIN.As you read this book, the words will actually be your heart speaking to you, from the sea of pure consciousness that exists in your heart cave.Adi Da was therefore the true Heart Master and the greatest Jnana Yogi that ever lived.(The book Lion Sutra is also a timeless masterpiece that is vital towards self realization).
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Bob Dobolina
1.0 out of 5 stars Specious NonsenseReviewed in the United States on June 18, 2013
Format: Hardcover
Da Free John, Bubba Free John, Adi Da--whatever you want to call him--was a master of mumbo-jumbo. His endless, pointless ramblings circle in and out, coiling and uncoiling like a snake devouring its own tail, but never really going anywhere. Anything of any value in this book was stolen from a Buddhist Sutra or one of the Vedas. The rest is self-aggrandizing hogwash, set forth as if it's some shining gem of bright wisdom. Consider garbage like this: "Reality Itself is a Revelation of What Is" (the capital letters are his and are presumably designed to make an otherwise mundane statement appear Somehow Significant. Dinner Is An Unfoldment of the Sustenance of Night. You get the idea.).
Do yourself a favor and file this specious nonsense alongside your collection of Scientology books, if you have one. Adi da was a huckster. A self-promoting charlatan who, for all his words, really had nothing to say.
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bsanandaATyahoo
5.0 out of 5 stars The Supreme Dharma (1991)Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2010
Format: Paperback
This version of The Supreme Dharma (1991) is one (soon to be two) editions out of date, but still better than anything else out there.
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EduardoP
5.0 out of 5 stars The four sublimely transcendental samadhis of Adi Da SamrajReviewed in the United States on December 23, 1999
Format: Paperback
The Dawn Horse Testament is the ultimate guide to the mastery of transcendental awareness, and enlightenment. The incomparable western master Adi Da exquisitely illuminates the mystery of Who you Ultimately Are, intensifying meditative awareness through the ajna door into the incredible mastery of Divine Ignorance, Divine Realization, and Divine Being. The ultimate answers within transcendental awareness await the arrival of the newly wakened meditator's assimilation of the four samadhis of Adi Da.
The Dawn Horse Testament is an invaluable companion to anyone on the path of the mastery of awareness. Other seventh stage teachings are Self-Realization of Noble Wisdom: The Lankavatara Sutra; Mahamudra: Quintessence of Mind and Meditation; and The Four Yogas Of Enlightenment. The exploration of consciousness through the four samadhis of The Dawn Horse Testament is without parallel and sublimely transcendental.
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