How He Affects The World

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One aspect of Adi Da’s living was being an artist. He wrote, painted, and did photography. 

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Adi Da had started again doing photography while He was at the “Outshining Brightness”, during the period of the Kosovo War in 1999. I remember the first time I looked at the photos He had taken. One was simply a chair yet I was drawn deep into feeling. My body responded to the photo the same as His Transmission, chest swells in warmth, throat chokes, tears well all in time with the most profound feelings of beauty and love, both profound and tranquil. He had said that He combines Himself with what He is photographing and therefore to look at one of His photographs is a form of His Darshan.

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On the road to Lopez He was photographing in the sand dunes north of Marin. We were all staying out of sight so as to not interfere with the natural look. I was laying in tall grass behind the crest of one of the dunes and I peeked through the tall grass. I saw Adi Da. He was facing the ocean. Maybe twenty to fifty yards away. As I lay there I was taken, even mesmerized by the reality that I was looking at The Enlightened One, The storied Completed One, spoked about often, yet never seen. He abruptly spun the tripod around and pointed the camera straight towards the sand dune that I was on. I slunk down making sure that I was in the shadow of the grass. Then the space became something out of a science fiction or fantasy movie. It was if a powerful form of energy moved the structure of the space. The sand and grass started to undulate. It felt as if my body was doing the same thing. The phenomena was accompanied by the most incredible feeling of Bliss and Happiness.