Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963August 13, 1963My dear Carlton:It was nice to see you again and also to know you are “free” in a certain sense. You did find mein a temple or mausoleum of health and it is possible that that temple or mausoleum will becomemore and more a certain of re-vivification. My “brother,” Paul Reps, is now in the State concernedwith the re-vivification and re-novation of the human temple. In my poem, “What Christ? WhatPeace” which was written in 1940-41, the plan for world peace is based on the resurrection of thebody in no uncertain terms and until “man is born a new” not poetically, not symbolically, but actuallywe cannot have human peace. Man must first make peace with himself.The alchemy is not all didactic morality. An impure body cannot commit pure acts. The vitalforces flow through the breath (spirit) and through life-nourishing foods (flesh), and both of theseare derived from the All-Pervading Life. That body has life is seen in the growth and as yet neitherbotanists nor biochemists nor others have found the secret of this life because our minds are trainedin analysis and not in over-all observation. The Taoist is trained in the over-all observation but not inanalysis and comes up with different answers. By “Taoist” I do not mean that impossible, metaphorical,ethereal monster coined by European pseudo-philosophers, but living men, usually Chinese.When I was in Asia I never lost a debate—not one loss. But don’t jump. Did you ever play tittat-toe?You can play a hundred games, all ties. There are three outcomes: victory, union and surrender,and I have no idea which percentage of each there were. My final, climactic debate, the onefor which I prepared the hardest, was one of absolute and utter surrender. People here do not knowhow to surrender, they think they are losing something and the parody of Asian spiritual mastersgiven us by the aforesaid European pseudo—philosophers and the American metaphysicians hasabsolute nothing to do with anything. No one can logically prove that Dr. Radhakrishnan is not amahatma or a superman and the very fact that he has never out-expressed himself proves nothing.My meeting with him—at a time when he saw nobody else either, was one of utter communion. Wehad nothing to say. We agreed on everything and did not even have to say it and that is a tall story.The result of this behavior pattern—victory, alliance and surrender, has been the collationof perhaps the largest compendium of esotericism over to come into the hands of one person, utterlyprotected because the people around one do not believe it and so long as I am not believed orrespected I am utterly protected.In the last three weeks there have come into my hands from three sources practically all theteachings of the late Hazrat Inayat Khan, my first spiritual mentor. In some of the papers deliveredto me was a lot of stuff, esoterically directional, which can be used in distributing disciplines to anybodyand everybody. But the disciples of Hazrat Inayat Khan do not know, cannot know (self-will)that in the Orient I have been trusted one, by living teachers; two, by finding in English a mass ofSufic material not available yet.