The Perfect Tradition

In 1980, devotees of Adi Da visited the Tibetan master Chogyam Trungpa and showed him video footage of Adi Da. 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. It combines and transcends different orientations represented in Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta and 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.