Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963-3Aftermath and Prognosis. Never better ever. I can now, if my book is accepted, get it reviewedby the proper people all over the world, without exception. But I have to phone Mr. VIP here first.Ideas about publishers have been given me.Sufism. I have more work in this field than anybody imagines. But when I met the head ofthe American Friends of the Middle East, Dr. Overtone, he accepted my “credentials” on sight. It isvery possible that he himself has been admitted into at least one of the Dervish Orders. This is still aclosed book.Buddhism. This is all comic operas. I had my friend Della at Eugene’s last night and we discussedthe inexorability of karma and the American nonsense of noblesse obliges—which saves nobody.There are so many Sanghas here. I am quite outspoken against one leader because he attackedtwo other leaders. But it is almost impossible to get the Americans to accept the Sangha point ofview—whosoever is attacked, “that is I,” and I only spoke because of my Fudo function.To harmonize the Sangha, John, Dick and Harry all have the most wonderful ideas for “retreats—eachwith its own advantages, each ignoring the others, each seeking monetary help, eachrefusing to do basic meditation and hardly any study of Buddha’s methods. Temporarily I agreedto work for one, rejecting the other—but as reminded, in the eleven years at the Buddha UniversalChurch, not one real personality difficulty. And these amateurs all have their programs before theystart out.So I finally turned around and asked my friend Della—and she is a saint—“What is the GreatMantra?” She has been repeating Prajna Paramita Sutra for years and could not answer who wasSariputra and what the Mantra was. I demonstrated, but really for Eugene and his wife who weredelighted. The Japanese refer to the Mantra and the Chinese to the Mandala and yet they don’t knoweither the Mantra or the Mandala.Yoga. Tuesday night I hope to present the Saraswati Yoga, present—not discuss, not exhort.It requires patience and more than that, but if one holds on and holds up after a while theworld becomes small and pliable. Now how to help Vocha Fiske? I think I know an occult method,but it has devotional aspects, not magic.Cordially,S.A.M.