Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963September 23, 1963Bodhisattva:Yesterday in rapid order there were a number of experiences and one might even call them“love” experiences, only not in the present context of our culture which uses this word in totally differentsense from either the ancients or the spiritualists. For beyond this body is the subtle body andbeyond that is the heart-or causal-body, which is one thing to talk about and another thing to experience.And at the recent time the talkers are pretty well against the experiencers who are often forcedto keep quiet.Sangha Love. This is to love the neighbor as thyself. It is not amoral, it is not a maxim, it isnot speeches, it is not sermons. The moralizer, the preacher can begin and can end in hypocrisy. Sowhen you say the world is looking for a saviour or deliverer, the world has to look for a saviour or adeliverer because the world takes too seriously the preacher and the moralizer who do not representin their persons what they are talking about. We applaud the speech but one does not satisfy thirstby listening to a physicist explain the nature of water.Two ladies walked into the Too Lun monastery, and I know all their faults. But we are at one.It is like one person. You meditate a long time with somebody and you are that person. It is a sort ofloyalty more than admiration and it is even more union than loyalty. You can go to the lectures andhear somebody explain about Yoga being “union” and you will not have any union. You will have alecture or even a demonstration, you will not have a union.My time in Japan was spent with Kiichi Okudo and we used to meditate together. And wewere so much in tune with one another it was like being one person. He usually acted as my interpreterexcepting on one humorous occasion when we went to a laboratory and the records were inLatin and I acted as his interpreter. Finally he had the dream of his life when we went as guests ofhonor to the Imperial Gardens which is the highest aim of the Japanese. Some day you may want toread my diary and it is like living in the dreams. You can also go to Diabutsu on Fillmore St. belowUnion and meet Mr. Shibata, and it is again the Sangha Love which is hard to explain because youare that person and it is not “love” in our sense.Christ Love. The difference between the false teacher and the true is that the false teacher correctsothers and the true teacher is correcting himself. You may think Sensei is getting after you, butSensei is getting after himself. If one says “I have the third eye” all the people who give the lectureson the Third Eye or who think they believe in the Third Eye will immediately turn against him. Theymight accept the book, “The Third Eye” by the man who said he got some experiences in Tibet but ifthey meet a man who has third eye and says he has third eye they will be against him.Yet Third Eye is heart-eye. I have said we have physical body, subtle-body, heart-body. Whenwe have the heart-body and heart-eye we have Third Eye, whether this is in heart or in the top of thehead does not matter.