Adi Da Samraj said the Way of Adidam could be described as “no-seeking” or “searchlessness” as a fundamental description of its primary characteristic.
In contrast to this every bone in your body wants to turn it into a path of seeking. However Bhagavan Da stated this hundreds if not thousands of times, it is a perfectly searchless practice. Not a little bit of “no-seeking”, but completely, utterly from “day one” –without seeking.
In some sense then you may say that no-seeking is a discipline inherent to Adidam practice. There is a chapter in The Aletheon titled “Transcendental and Non-Conditional Spirituality”. It covers a lot of ground and many profound points, but here I am only highlighting fundamental difference made between Adidam Practice and conventional 6th stage meditative practice.
Adi Da states that even in the most rarified forms of mentalized 6th stage practice, there is a “search” going on. It is really interesting to consider this and see if its true. Many people coming to Adidam have done some form of this practice, from Buddhist Mindfulness to Ramana Maharshi’s “Who Am I?” style of subtle inquiry and many variations of these approaches.
Certainly in my case I tend to carry on this approach (example here) within Adidam itself. Most of the time it seems inevitable and absolutely and undeniably necessary to have the mind or attention engaged in some form of method or technique in order to deal with arising conditions.
In “Transcendental and Non-conditional Spirituality” Adi da writes :
In the preliminary “Perfect Knowledge” listening-practice, there is no intervening thought on which to concentrate. Therefore, the preliminary ”Perfect Knowledge” listening-practice can be engaged in any and every moment, because that practice does not interfere (so to speak) with the naturalness (or the otherwise exercised concentration efforts) of moment to moment participatory existence.
Here Adi Da suggests that the practice does not interfere with ordinary functioning including concentrating on a task at hand (for instance)– “there is no intervening thought on which to concentrate” He says. Get that, that is the clincher! Perhaps you can feel the profound liberation inherent in that statement, I certainly can. That’s right : no seeking-no method-no technique-not ever. Not required; even though it nearly always “seems” to be absolutely necessary and most of the time to suggest otherwise would appear absurd. The conventional mind would cry out “that’s ridiculous!” in protest.
In conventional meditation there is always an intervening method, no matter how subtle, rarefied or hidden, it’s always there. Anyone interested can test this in their own life and practice.