Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963April 3, 1963My dear friends:The one between gossip, sermonizing and news is often very thing and I feel like that now.My whole objection to the teachings of what is known as “Oriental Philosophy” is that words andpersons have taken the place of realities and when it comes to the direct insight which is called “Prajna”in Buddhism, a thousand manifestations by the “wrong person” are rejected because a humbugsaid—and he was well beloved: “that the right means in the wrong hands are wrong.” Opposite thisis the extreme teaching of the Patriarch who refused anything wrong but did observe the existence ofignorance. But as the glamour of persons controls so much of our lives and thoughts, we cannot realizehow simple or intricate are the affairs of others because we tend to observe and sometimes themby a different standard that we are able to apply to ourselves.The Heart—Sciences are unknown in the West and the first very slim effort on the part offellow Americans who here an inkling into them is nothing but the shadow of Christ-crucifixion.But the willingness to accept delightful personalities as the emissaries of the universe has been thesource of the tragedies, and comedies of “Mother” and “Daughter” here. Of course “Mother” is not“Mother” and Daughter is not “Daughter” and yet both are. At least there is and admittance of anaeonic karma which has produced the laughter, pain and tears of all of us and we recognized it.The Music Box is owned and operated by Grace West Frye. When I left she was on Grant Avealmost in the middle of the Beatnik district and there is no doubt that her transference led in partto the downgrading of the area. She had no relation with the Beatnicks other than propinquity, buttheir common adjacency helped to bring people there. For Grace is a pioneer and a firm advocate inreal Folk Arts. Her present marriage to a man half-Greek and with a double Christian heritage plusher own adherence to a sort of folk-lore Judaism keeps both of them in harmony with universal outlooks.This is immediately reflected in the programs here covering almost every period of musicaland entertainment and a wide variety of performers and performances not related in the elsewhere.One question I have asked, half in humor and half serious, which nobody here has been able to answerso. How many instruments does Grace play?”I don’t remember when Donna met Grace but she studied Recorder with her in the past andthe rumor was that Grace being up here in part was responsible for her coming to Mendocino. Alsoher second “wild” husband liked it here.Grace was always a mother to her classes, but I guess, being older I was more like a brotherand in feeling there has been something like it. I know the void in Grace and the difficulty of a typewhich we may call “Uranian” to find a subtitle mate. I don’t mean “Uranian” which is used byEdward Carpenter and with a slightly different meaning by Astrologers, but it is as near as we havea term in English. They correspond more to the Overman of Sri Aurobindo. The Uranian type ofGrace is simple and elegant but very different from what psychologist consider. Even to her presenthusband who is certainly a Uranian, she is much like a mother.