Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963-2Now the Christ-love is the self-correction for the sake of other. Those lecturers who talk aboutJesus Christ and Christ-love and have not experienced it are either liars or hypocrites, even thoughthey do not intend to be. There is no great merit in “telling” others what you do not tell yourself.The Zen-Master is pictured as carrying a stick but the Zen-Master is trying to deliver everybodyfrom the karma, from the pain, from the suffering. He is not a university professor, he is nota popular lecturer who charms people and charms also the money from them. He is a Bodhisattva,a World-Deliverer and he is trying to remove the pain. And when you look closely you can see thatthe Zen Master is taking on the burden of the pain and the sorrow and the suffering for everybodyin the Sangha. The Upanikas and Upasakas may not know it, may not see it, but it is so. Then afterhe has taken himself to task and finds the remedy he calls the pupil and says or does something.The devotee may think this is dualistic and that is why you have so many Mondos, that at onepoint there is dualism and at the next point non-dualism. And this also is not the non-dualism of thelecturers who charm and talk non-dualism and you are left in the dualism with a high regard for thelecturer and a low regard for yourself. This is not the Zen, where the Master is like Jesus Christ, “Iam the Vine and Ye are the branches thereof.”So Sensei wants you to get out of the dualism and he talks about the breath. If you read PaulBrunton he talks breath, heart and eye and if you go to the lectures (especially when you pay), theymay talk a little about these things, but mostly they will not. They will charm and when they say“higher truths” everybody in the audience will gasp and think “How wonderful.” But what is thehigher truth?The word spiritual comes from the Latin spiritus which means breath; that which is spiritualhas to do with breath. So Sensei says something about breath and you have heard a lot of lecturesby M.As and Ph.Ds about “spiritual” things and they have told you nothing about the breath. Nowyou learn about the breath and you do not associate it with “spiritual” because the ego-mind hasbeen led astray. And if you forget all the lectures and lecturers, whether you may or not, and stickto Sensei you will learn the spirituality and not even know it. And he is concerned always with yourpain and suffering and short-comings. There is the Christ before you and you may wonder about a“World Teacher” coming from far away.Dualistic Love. This was the last experienced yesterday. I was at Virginia Beach and behavedso properly that people thought I was a monk or saint or trying to be. One day a young seeress cameand she was too tired to talk and I went up to her and kissed her full, a type of kiss which would notbe understood by many because it was a three-body kiss. Here they understand the physical kissand the subtle kiss and of course, the sex-kiss; but this was a karuna or heart-kiss expressed, like yousee the pictures of