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The Code of
Masters
Author's note
“The Code of
Masters” falls into a category of “upadesha” texts. It’s
a guide for yogins following the way of Anuttara-tantra in the siddha tradition.
The text is written
in symbolic secret language (sandhya-bhasya) which helps to “express
inexpressible” and to pass living breath of Masters.
“Sandhya-bhasya”
style is the language of yoginies and dakinies. It has special charm and
poetry. It’s extremely mystical, polysemantic and symbolic. In the ancient
times this language was used in tantrism in order to protect the Teaching from
the uninitiated and to pass the Spirit directly from Master to disciple.
The twilight
language doesn’t teach; it just charms the disciple and brings him to another
reality. It gives the possibility to feel the living breath of eternity and the
greatness of the Way of Enlightenment. This kind of text is a transmission of
energy from Master to disciple; it’s impossible to remain the same after having
read it.
Swami Vishnu Dev
Divya Loka, 2004
The Way of Perfection
Book
I
The
Contour of the Way
Chapter 1
The Infinity
- The
Infinity is the great source of everything. All in the universe is
Infinity’s emanation. All in the universe consists of the Infinity.
- The
Infinity is like unimaginable eternal light; it is omnipresent and
all-permeating. All in the universe, from a mote to a star, is filled with
its rays.
- The
Infinity always existed in everything and everywhere. No one can define,
comprehend, perceive, or put the Infinity into words. It exists as everything
but hides playing.
- Playing
Infinity creates universes and creatures living in them by the power of
the great wind.
- Worlds
come from Infinity’s Game; they live and die in it, just as air bubbles in
the water.
- When
the Infinity reveals itself to a human being it’s called the Spirit of the
Infinity.
- The
Spirit of the Infinity is a great mystery of every creature’s life;
creature that unraveled it becomes free.
- The
Infinite Spirit is the meaning and the goal of all creatures` lives
whether they understand this or not.
Chapter 2
A Great
Mystery
The
Nature of the Infinity
- The
Infinity is always luminous and self conscious; it has no limits and it’s
perfect by virtue of its nature.
- The
nature of the Infinity is to emanate; its emanations in the form of thinnest
threads, rays of light, create all visible things in the universe.
- All
worlds with their dreaming creatures are formed of rays` crossings;
dreaming creatures see them as the outer world of solid things. Only
Masters can see these rays of light.
- The
great wind moves and directs the rays. It breathes life into all creatures
and supports them from birth to death.
- The
great wind moves all worlds through directing the rays; this way it
creates dreams making creatures wonder in the eternal circle of the sleep
of mind.
Chapter 3
The
Sleep of Mind
- The
Infinite Spirit put its emanations into the sleep of mind to begin the
Game.
- The
sleep of mind is a special form of Infinity’s Game; in this Game some its
emanations begin dreaming and forget that they are the Infinity; the
Infinity, in its turn, hides itself under the cover of dreams.
- The
Infinite Spirit makes some part of it fall asleep and hides so that this
part having some freedom could begin its travel in the eternal circle.
- Why
does the Infinity hide itself after having put some its parts into the
sleep of mind? The Infinity does it so that its dreaming emanations could
gain will and independence to become aware of their selves.
- Emanations
need dreams to gain the light of clarity and to accumulate the shine,
self-awareness and Spirit flashes.
- In
the same time dreams make emanations to forget the Infinity and to wonder
in the eternal circle.
- Wondering
in the eternal circle Infinity’s sleeping parts imagine their own world
with its goals and relationships.
- In
the sleep they imagine themselves being individual, different from others
and living by themselves.
- Dreaming
creatures have some free will, and they use it differently.
- So the Game reaches the top of unreality
and absurdity pleasing the Infinity and intensifying its
self-awareness.
- The
Infinity wishes its emanations could overcome the sleep of mind and stop
wandering in the eternal circle. They have to do it by themselves using
freedom that is possible in the sleep of mind.
- The
Infinite Spirit can’t meddle in it and can’t dissolve dreams of its
emanations because it would affect the Game and free will.
- The
Infinity respects even most miserable creatures` free will; their free
will is its free will. After all there are no miserable creatures in the
Infinity, only the Infinity itself.
- Even
a most miserable creature is dear to the Infinity; in Infinity’s view,
such creature is the same that the Infinity and it is great. Creatures
become miserable because of their own dreams. The biggest wish of the
Infinity is to help creatures become free of dreams so that they could
realize their greatness.
- Since
the Infinite Spirit has its own free will the principles of its Game let
it sometimes touch dreaming creatures, give them hints, meddle in their
sleep of mind and even wake them; however, the final choice must be their
own.
- Those
who exercise this right are called Masters following the Way of freedom,
perfect creatures or sky walkers, those who awoke from the sleep of mind
and stopped wandering in the eternal circle.
- Those
who don’t exercise this right will keep on dreaming and wandering in the
eternal circle until they gain enough Spirit flashes to awake from the
sleep of mind.
- Awakening
form the sleep of mind they stop wandering in the eternal circle and
attain liberty.
- Awakened
creatures can see that Infinity’s Game can go on without sleep, in the
unity with the Infinity.
- What
is the meaning of the sleep of mind? Sleeping creatures attain will in
their dreams, and then find the way out of it consciously joining the Game
of the Infinity. The great goal of the Game is to make emanations
self-sufficient keeping their greatness and unity with the Infinity. When
it happens the Infinity assumes new self-consciousness in countless
creatures.
Chapter 4
The
Meaning of Dreaming Creatures` Lives
- Sleeping
emanations that think that they are isolated are called wandering in the
eternal circle.
- The
true goal of their existence is to satiate the unconscious part of the
Infinity with their consciousness.
- They
perform it accumulating the shine and Spirit flashes.
- Consciousness
fills the unconscious part of the Infinity when the light of clarity
becomes brighter.
- The
light of clarity becomes brighter when the shine is intensified and Spirit
flashes occur.
- In
Infinity’s view, dreaming creatures have no own meaning of life though
they don’t think so.
- Dreaming
creatures feel miserable and fancy some small goals that can’t be even
compared with goals given to them by the Infinity; these goals are to
accumulate the shine and Spirit flashes.
- Accumulation
of the shine and Spirit flashes intensifies creatures` light of clarity;
it is the true meaning of their lives.
- In
Infinity’s view, individual dreaming creatures don’t exist; or it’ like
they don’t exist; it takes them only as its emanations put into the sleep
of mind.
- The meaning of emanations` existence is
so great that the idea of being small and insignificant means nothing to
the Infinity.
- The aim of putting emanations into the
sleep of mind is in accumulating Spirit flashes.
- It
is performed through creating deep, various and strong dreams that are in
the same time beautiful and multidimensional; then one becomes free from
them and takes part in the Game with the help of Spirit’s light of
clarity.
- When
creatures accumulate enough shine and Spirit flashes they stop dreaming
and awake from the sleep of mind. Nevertheless, dreams can’t completely
disappear as they are special Infinity’s emanations, and they can’t be
stopped. Infinity’s nature is to emanate and to create dreams.
- When the sleep of mind is stopped dreams
become a harmless Game of the Infinity created to intensify the shine and
Spirit flashes.
- Creatures that left the sleep of mind
play with them. Playing they get free of the idea of insignificance and
isolation until they unite with the Infinity.
- The more solid and refined the dreams are
the more interesting it is to the Infinity. With their help it becomes
aware of those parts of itself which it wasn’t aware of before.
- The meaning of creatures` existence is to
develop their self-consciousness, Spirit’s light of clarity.
- The tragedy of sleeping emanations is
that they think they are isolated miserable creatures.
- The Infinity doesn’t think about them
this way, and it isn’t going to take their illusions into consideration; to
the Infinity, “creatures” and their illusions are conventional and unreal.
- That’s
why creatures and their illusions become objects of jokes and tricks in
Infinity’s performance.
- The destiny of dreams is to serve the
great goal of developing Infinity’s consciousness, to give the shine and
Spirit flashes to its dreaming emanations, and to wake them. The true
meaning of creatures` lives is to accumulate the shine and Spirit flashes.
- In order to fulfill its own goals a
creature has to attain will and consciousness and prove the Infinity the
claim on its own goals.
- The only way to prove it is to realize
the unreality of all illusions and to unite with the Infinity keeping one’s
self.
- If
a creature has no will and no self-consciousness the Infinity won’t hear it.
- Developing will and self-consciousness the
creature discloses the fact of its conventionality, non-existence, and
primordial unity with the Infinity; it’s a paradox.
- The fact of its illusiveness and
non-existence staggers creature’s mind. When it realizes what it really is
it can’t remain same insignificant.
- Its
dreaming part is confused; it trembles and changes giving itself to the
Infinite Spirit. The creature recalls the fact of its greatness staying self-sufficient.
- The
great goal of the Game is to make emanations independent keeping their greatness
and unity with the Infinity. It is performed through development of the
light of clarity.
- That’s
why it’s said that creatures have no aims and no future of their own.
Their meaning of life and their future are in the Infinity.
- Dreams set goals to creatures` lives
until creatures don’t understand their greatness.
- The purpose of dreams is to fill
creatures with the shine and Spirit flashes. Spirit flashes cause the
light of clarity and satiate Infinity’s self-consciousness.
- Dreams
are controlled by powerful forces – the guardians, Infinity’s
protégés. Some of them guard dreams and their influence on
sleeping creatures; others help creatures to become free from dreams.
- A
goal caused by dreams is called the destiny of dreaming creatures
wandering in the eternal circle.
Chapter 5
The
Effect of Misting Power
- People
put into the sleep of mind would never admit that they are sleeping. No
one of dreaming creatures would admit that the world it lives in is the
sleep of its mind.
- If
a creature admits this fact it would feel like the meaning and the goals
of its life are lost. To get new meanings and new goals the creature needs
total rebuilding of its world view. But how can a dreaming creature do it
by itself staying in the sleep of mind?
- So
it has to hold on to its own world view without any doubt about its reality
until powerful forces, Infinity’s protégés, allow it or until
it by some miracle meets the Master and the Way.
- Incapability
to admit one’s sleep shows that dreams and the sleep of mind are very
strong. The biggest trick of the sleep of mind is in making creatures to believe
that they don’t sleep.
- The
touch of the Spirit of the Infinity and its accidental flashes can
neutralize misting power for some time.
- Accidental
flashes constantly happen to everyone in the time of danger, risk, and
shock, on the top of joy or physical bliss, at the moment of inspiration
or surprise, in unpredictable situations, at the first moment of falling
asleep and at the first moment of awakening or when one looks at some big
space.
- However,
dreaming creatures which have very weak shine are almost not affected by
Spirit flashes; the flashes leave no imprint in their memory.
- Dreaming
creatures don’t notice things that their dreams don’t plan them to notice.
- This
is the great influence of misting power of the Infinity; it puts living
creatures` minds into sleep.
Chapter 6
Frost
and Flame
Two
Ways
- There
are two main ways for all creatures living in the Universe: to develop
Spirit’s light of clarity or to roam in the eternal circle of dreams.
- Those
who develop the light of clarity are called started the Way, following the
Way of perfection, Masters looking for freedom, sky walkers or sky
inhabitants playing in the field of the Infinity.
- Those
who are absorbed with the sleep of mind are called dreaming creatures roaming
in the eternal circle. Both accumulate the shine and the flashes of
clarity developing Spirit’s self-consciousness.
- But
those who follow the Way do it consciously, willingly, and according to a
detailed plan; they consider it to be the meaning of life.
- Dreaming creatures do it chaotically and without
their knowledge. Their meaning of life is caused by the sleep of mind.
- In
this case the process of accumulating the shine and Spirit flashes is very
slow. Dreaming creatures are called wandering in the eternal circle
because they often get into the shadow area, the worlds of solid dreams,
and then go back to where they started.
- When,
by the virtue of lucky concatenation of circumstances, a dreaming creature
manages to accumulate enough shine and Spirit flashes it hears the call of
the Infinity.
- It
descends drawn by the accumulated shine.
- This
touch starts eliminating creature’s sleep of mind.
- When
dreams are weakened enough the dreaming creature attains the light of
clarity and willingly starts its Way of searching for the Infinity.
- So
there is only one Way thought it’s said there are two.
Chapter 7
The
Meaning of Man of the Way’s Life
- The
meaning of man of the Way’s life is to attain absolute liberty.
- To
attain absolute liberty means to end the sleep of mind and to reunite with
the Infinity.
- A
man touched by the Spirit seeks the Way to the Infinity all his life.
That’s why he is called a man of the Way. Having found the Way he is intent
on following it properly and to realize his goal.
- To
a man of the Way to live means to search for the Infinity. He who follows
the Way cannot be without this search. Attaining absolute freedom comes as
a natural result of his life dedicated to the search for the Infinity.
- Of
all dreaming creatures only a man of the Way has his own meaning of life; as
his meaning coincides with Infinity’s meaning.
- The
meaning of a dreaming creature’s life is determined by dreams; it means
that a dreaming creature has no personal meaning of life. That is
true. Dreams are controlled by
powerful forces, the guardians. They have their own incomprehensible
purposes. These purposes caused by their parts in Infinity’s Games. The
purposes of powerful creatures` games are so deep and global that they
never take into consideration the small goals of a man seeing dreams in
the sleep of mind.
- But
when dreaming man’s own meaning and Infinity’s meaning harmonize dreams
and purposes of powerful creatures that direct them lose their force. That
happens because even most powerful guardians respect and admire a dreaming
creature having the heart to seek the Infinity.
- The
more steadfast and sincere man of the Way’s spirit is the friendlier these
powerful forces are; some of them even become his servants, admirers or guardians.
- First,
they test him properly. If a man of the Way passes their tests, and their
pride is satisfied; they unambiguously admit his personal goal’s splendour. Nothing can be greater than a goal of someone
who decided to seek absolute freedom, to seek the Infinity.
Chapter 8
Mighty
Forces
Dreams`
Guardians and Spirit Protégés
- All
in the universe, the march of time, star light and planetary motion, creatures`
life and death is under the subtle control of mighty forces – Spirit guardians
and protégés. They control everything in the word of dreams.
The guardians are Infinity’s emanations endued with immense shine, force
and authority.
- The
faculty to see the guardians is inherent in disciples rooted in the Way.
- Dreaming
creatures can’t see those who are superior to them because such creatures
are not interested in anything except for their illusions.
- The
sleep of mind ties them with known things leaving no chance of seeing anything
else.
- If
they occur to see a guardian or a sign of his their dreams will block it.
- Masters
recognize the guardians, powerful creatures, living beyond human perception.
- Some
Masters say that the guardians are a game of the Infinity; and thinking that
they are something external is a delusion.
- Other Masters those who completed the Way
see the guardians as a Game of their own emanations. So they say that
thinking that the guardians are something different from you is a delusion
caused by the sleep of mind.
Chapter 9
The
Nature of the Guardians
- The
lowest kind of the guardians is those who have immense force and power but
don’t know the Infinity.
- They
can help a man of the Way or impede him if they’re annoyed with him.
- A
disciple rooted in the Way can settle things with the guardians, charm or pacify
them.
- The
Master pacifies the guardians with proud and severe spirit with the light
of his clarity. Pacifying he shows the Way to freedom.
- Other
guardians are following the Way of freedom. Their Way is incomprehensible
to a human being; they follow their own Masters.
- Such
guardians help the man of the Way giving him power and knowledge, being
ignorant or examining him according to the situation.
- The
third kind is the best. They have already gained liberty and recognized their
selves. They play incomprehensible Games in pure fields of the Infinity.
- They
are heaven inhabitants, sky walkers and knowledge guardians. Their Spirit
is high and refined; their hearts are filled with harmony, love, sympathy
and wisdom.
- They
help the man of the Way inspiring him, giving him knowledge and making
predictions.
- To meet such guardians is a great piece
of luck; it shows that the man of the Way was chosen by the Spirit.
- The guardians who know the Infinity,
perfect creatures, should be admired of, respected and asked for
inspiration. That is the only way to treat them.
Chapter 10
Infinity’s
shine
- All
visible in the universe things shine. The universe is filled with the shine
of Infinity’s emanations.
- The
shine is a characteristic of Infinity’s emanations inherent in all
creatures including human beings.
- Masters`
eyes can see the shine of creatures` bodies. The shine of their bodies’
shows that they are really Infinity’s emanations. All creatures in the
world are Infinity’s luminous emanations.
- Body’s
shine is heterogeneous and changes with temporal periods. Expired air and
secretions of a human being have special shine the more so if he follows
the Way of freedom.
- The
Master sees the shine as luminous threads which each thing in the world
consists of.
- Seeing
the shine the Master understands that it comes from his eyes, just as the
light of a candle put into a clay doll comes through its eye-sockets.
Controlling his eyes and using different kinds of sight he can intensify
and move the shine and change vision of this world.
- He
can move between visions changing them; he uses the shine and its threads
as the means.
Chapter 11
Two
Ways to See
- There
are two ways to think: the first one is to suppose oneself to be a limited
human or any other being separated from the Infinity and having its own
meaning of life. This way is called the sleep of mind.
- This
is the only way to see available to creatures that were not touched by the
Spirit of the Infinity. Such vision is inherent in those who didn’t start
the Way of freedom and who keep on roaming in the eternal circle.
- The
other way is to see oneself as Infinity’s emanation whose true meaning of
life is to develop Spirit’s light of clarity and to accumulate the shine
and Spirit flashes. This way to see is inherent in Masters and their
disciples touched by the Infinity, sky inhabitants and sky walkers
eternally following the Way of the Spirit.
Masters can
use both ways combining them. The limited way is used in world of dreams` normal
life; it is the Game of the Master. The second one expresses his inner truth,
his will to follow the Way; it is the real meaning of all his doings.
Chapter 12
Five
Gifts of the Infinity
- Having
created the universe the Infinity gave dreaming creatures five great
presents.
- It
gave them a piece of its own incomprehensibility, its
incredible mystery that causes their motivations to look for a miracle for
all life.
- It
endued them with its infinity and eternity; the memory about it makes them
to dream.
- It
gave them its great purity and detachment so that they could accept all and
not to lose their selves.
- It
endued them with power and perfection they long for. The memory about it makes
them to plan and to set goals.
Chapter 13
The
Touch of the Spirit
- The
touch of the Spirit means that the Infinite Spirit reveals the mystery of
its gifts and the way of using them to a chosen disciple.
- As
soon as the Infinite Spirit chooses the disciple all his life changes. The
touch of the Spirit makes all goals of this world meaningless.
- The
touch of the Spirit makes the disciple to seek the Way, a Master and his
school day and night.
- The
touch of the Spirit enchants the disciple with mystery, freedom and power
and changes him into a fearless follower breaking all obstacles on the Way
down.
- Nothing
can stop the disciple touched by the Spirit, as nothing can stop the
Infinite Spirit itself. Attracted by the voice of the Spirit, the disciple
forgets the ways of this world and goes forward just as an elephant.
- When
the Infinite Spirit chooses and touches the disciple it leads him to the
Three Treasures.
Chapter 14
The
Sky in the Jug
The
Three Treasures
- The
Three Treasures are always waiting for the disciple, but he can find them
and ask for their help only when he is ready.
- The
three pearls are given to every disciple; all his life he carries them
gently in his heart like the most precious treasure. They are: the Master,
the Way, and the companions.
- The
Master is the emanation of the Spirit sent to the disciple to lead him to
freedom.
- The
Way is the Game of the Infinity; it seeks itself in disciple’s body.
- The
companions are friendly emanations of the Infinity which are spiritually
close to the disciple; they help him on the Way and cheer him up.
Chapter 15
Summoning
the Three Treasures
- The
summoning of the Three Treasures is the opening of one’s heart to the
Infinite Spirit. As soon as the disciple summons the Three Treasures he
starts the Way.
- If
the disciple didn’t sincerely summoned the Three Treasures he would lose
the Way again and again roaming its outskirts.
- When
the disciple summons the Three Treasures he makes the promise of being
worthy of Master`s line and of learning the Way listening to the voice of
the Infinity.
- When
the disciple has summoned the Three Treasures he gives them his devoted
heart, his search for the mystery, his love, his trust, his determination,
his imperturbability, his despair, and his hope as tokens of his
sincerity.
- So
the disciple becomes worthy of following the high Way of Masters.
Chapter 16
The
Ocean and a Wave
The
Master and the Disciple
- The
spirit of the infinite freedom beckons the disciple to search for the Way
and to follow the Master.
- What
does the Master try to give the disciple? His unlimited love for absolute
freedom.
- Nor
thoughtless obedience, neither servile devotion are wanted from the
disciple. What is wanted is the spirit of the utmost sincerity and total
commitment to the Way. Disciple’s utmost sincerity and total commitment harmonize
with Master’s Spirit.
- It
is the result of subtle tuning building the sacred connection between the Master
and the disciple. When the disciple is in tune with Master’s Spirit he
gains the right of owning the presents of the Infinity.
- As
the Master and the Infinity are one so integration with Master’s Spirit
endues the disciple with immense power.
- The
Master exists only in disciple’s mind. In reality, the Master is the
Infinite Spirit disguised as a human being playing with the disciple in
order to help him.
- In
course of time, the disciple begins to understand this, and it fills him
with inexpressible feeling of delight and admiration.
- Learning
the integrity of the Spirit the disciple gains inexpressible
understanding. He realizes that the Master, the Spirit and he are
essentially one thing.
Chapter 17
Master’s
Features
- A
Master walks the Path of Perfection day and night without breaks.
- A
true Master had left such games as entertainment, wealth, authority,
competition and fame behind. Only continuous improving is important to him.
- Pettiness,
pride and selfishness are alien to a true Master, as he always feels that
he’s a part of an infinite mystery on equality with all creatures.
- A
true Master does no unnecessary action, says no unnecessary word; he makes
no mistakes even in small things because he knows that there are no
insignificant things for a Master, the embodiment of perfection.
- Master’s
perfection is in merging in the Supreme Source and in manifestation of its
energies.
- A
true Master always keeps the feeling of infinite greatness and dignity because
Masters are living gods among men.
- A
Master knows that his Way is the Way of a lonely bird, and he cherishes no
hopes for recognition from his companions. Even among those who are kin to
him he is all-sufficient.
- Though
a Master is all-sufficient he loves other creatures dear, and he is glad
when somebody starts the Way or succeeds in it.
- Who
can realize the depth of Master’s love? Only another Master.
- A
true Master is a bit insane in the eyes of this world. His insanity is the
Spirit of totality of his life and method.
- One who has no Spirit of totality can’t
be a Master.
- Liberty
can be attained only through becoming a Master. Liberty is the top of
being a Master. No one can attain liberty without becoming a Master.
- Being a Master means being perfect.
- A
true Master is naturally relaxed; he lives merged in beauty and totality
of Existence; he knows that every moment is the last one and would never
repeat itself.
- Allegiance to the Way is not a debt; it
is Master’s life and breath. Masters never lose their allegiance to the
Way. Such people don’t become Masters.
- A
true Master is like a homeless traveler; he goes where the Way shows him
to go.
- A true Master never leaves a smallest
thing without being taken into consideration; he counts all details. He
will never make a mistake.
- A
true Master senses delicacy, creativeness and beauty of the Way.
- A true
Master is as flexible as a withe; he sees the
Way under any conditions. But only he knows what this vision cost him.
- A
true Master isn’t burdened with authority, belongings, a place to live,
cares, vanity and family. He lives for the Way, and his path of perfection
is the only important thing.
- An
amateur is inclined to extremes, but only a true Master knows how to keep
balance between creative freedom and self-discipline, a manifested Game
and resignation.
- The life of a true Master is a Game of the
Spirit, but the Master knows that the stakes in this Game are life, death
and freedom.
- In Master`s view freedom and perfection
are one; there is no freedom without perfection, and perfection without
freedom is meaningless.
- To a Master being free means to merge his
energy and his body in the Infinite Spirit, and perfection is the way to
express it.
- A
true Master isn’t afraid of his weaknesses; he learns to work with them
until they become his strength.
- Masters
recognize each other without words by the depth of eyes, by the harmony of
movements and by strength.
- A
true Master lives in the world of his method and his skill. He who doesn’t
live in the world of his method and his skill is not a Master; this
mistake is inherent in amateurs.
- Master’s
universe has no borders because his method is deep and his skill is
unlimited.
- The
world of skill is the universe of Master’s pure mind created through
perfectly used method.
- A
true Master isn’t attached to anything and doesn’t reject anything; he
either makes no unnecessary things.
- A
true Master is resigned; he feels as a part of the infinite universe.
- A
true Master won’t allow being distracted from the Way or stopped even for
a single moment. He knows that his goal isn’t in the future but in the
present moment, in the place where he is.
- A
Master doesn’t need to be convinced of anything; a hint would be enough
for him. He sees signs through listening to words.
- A
true Master is highly disciplined even when he sleeps. Only an equal
Master can understand him.
- Playing
his roles a true Master doesn’t lose his self but enriches it.
- A
true Master moves trough this world like a cloud
or like a dry leaf. He isn’t attached to any place.
Chapter 18
The
Way
- The
Way has two parts, two faces. The first part is the human part; it is disciple’s
way. The second part belongs to sky walkers; it is Master`s way.
- Disciple’s
way starts with the touch of the Spirit and from searching for a Master.
It is full of self-restraint and requires commitment, patience, will and
training.
- The
human part ends when the disciple relaxes having perceived the essence of
things and having gained detachment. Relaxing he lets himself go and merges
in the Infinity. Merging in the Infinity he enters the gates of non-action.
The human part is difficult and trying; it is full of doubt and
uncertainty.
- The
second part belongs to sky walkers, perfect creatures united with the
light of the Infinite Spirit. It is Master`s Way.
- Sky
walker’s way starts when the Master enters the gates of non-action and joins
in playing in Infinite Spirit’s area becoming one with the Spirit.
- Sky
walkers meet the Master at the gates of non-action greeting him and
showing him the way to the field of Infinite Spirit’s Game. Everyone who
approaches the gates of non-action sees sky walkers. This is the sign showing
that the field of Infinite Spirit’s Game is found.
- Then
Master’s Way becomes a Game in the field of purity where all is one with
the Infinite Spirit.
- Sky
walkers` part of the Way is wonderful; it’s joyful, delighting, humorous, spontaneous,
creative and playful.
- A Master
who begins this part becomes as free and light as a sky walker; he flies
with the wind, floats with clouds, walks along rainbows filling myriads of
universes.
- The human part requires obeying many
rules. Sky walker’s Way has one rule, be free and united with the
Infinity.
Chapter 19
The
Method
- A
true Master always honors his method. The method is his Way, his goal, his
life, his way to play and to create, the object of his commitment, the teacher
that leads him, the guardian who doesn’t forgive mistakes.
- The
method is the Spirit of universal power went into Master`s body; it is a manifestation
of the Source, his Game in the world of energy.
- The
method is a manifestation of wisdom; it gives transmission and merges neophyte
`s “I”; it cuts off hope and fear showing the neophyte his real self.
- The
method is passed only from a Master to a disciple.
- A
true Master will never initiate into the method a person who doesn't
realize its value and greatness or doesn't respect it.
- A
true Master is permanently merged in his method. In fact, he is a living
method; he is its embodiment.
- The
Master understands that his method is inseparable from thousands of other
Masters` methods, and that there is only one method, to merge in the Spirit
of perfection.
- The
method is Master`s breath, flesh and bones.
- When
the method discloses the core of the Way it’s a teacher; when it cuts off one’s
“I” it’s the source itself; when it punishes for carelessness and
compromises it’s the guardian of the Way disciplining the Spirit of
perfection.
- A
true method has neither name nor form; a Master makes method of any form or
name.
- A Master knows that the method leads to
freedom only if one is its living manifestation. A neophyte doesn’t
realize it.
- Only
he who whose commitment to the method resulted in disappearance of his
false “I” and whose method is merged in wisdom is a Master.
Chapter 20
Master’s
Line
- Master’s
line embodies the knowledge of hundreds generations of ancient Masters so
the disciple who has made up his mind to follow his Master enters into the
endless line of perfect Masters, sky walkers, knowledge keepers and sky
inhabitants.
- Perfect
Masters and sky walkers learned the Way from the ancient sky inhabitants,
and some of them received it from the Infinity itself.
- Unimaginably
long ago they were people too, people who followed the Way of freedom.
They attained liberty and kept their memories of human dreams so they were
able to pass on the knowledge about the Way of freedom to people.
- The
line is ceaseless and it will go on forever because this is the testament
of perfect Masters and sky inhabitants. And the testament of perfect
Masters and sky inhabitants is the same that the testament of the Infinity
as they are its living manifestation.
- In
the course of time lots of lines were weakened by the sleep of mind. From
everlasting the Infinity restores them again and again and even creates
new lines through finding its chosen disciples among countless dreaming
creatures.
- A
succession of Masters is the guarantee which the Infinity gives to a
dreaming creature. It guarantees that the Way exists, and a sincere
follower will reach its top; he’ll attain absolute liberty and will unite
with the Infinity.
- So
the Infinity takes care of its sleeping emanations, human beings that forgot
the Infinity.
Chapter 21
The
School
- A
true Master highly estimates the principles of his line and school; they
are the Spirit, life, greatness and honor of the Way. He values them as
his heart.
- A
true Master bows to those whose skill is higher than his and has deep
respect for his equal.
- A
true Master admires his Master’s skill and regards his Master with
reverence, love and loyalty in his heart.
- The
precepts of those who went the Way further than the Master are the law, the
map and the way. It doesn’t mean that he follows the precepts
thoughtlessly. Following them a true Master seeks and creates, because the
Spirit of freedom leaves him who doesn’t search and doesn’t create. This
is one of the precepts of those who followed the Way long ago.
- A
true Master is always loyal; he defends Masters` honor no matter how
difficult it is. The honor of Masters is not in rules, insignia or
prestige; it’s in the spirit of complete commitment to the method and to
the Way.
- The
honor of Master’s line and school is above his “I”; it’s the embodiment of
the Way. It isn’t in external signs and victories; it’s in the devotion to
the Way and to the Spirit of perfection. A true Master is a son of his
patriarchs.
- Master’s
school is the energy of the Infinite Spirit embodied in Masters; it leads
him in time of his spiritual youth.
- To
worship one’s own school doesn’t mean to neglect others`. Everyone who
sincerely follows the Way of perfection is worth to be admired.
- A
true Master would never come into conflict with the Way, the school or
with ordinary people. He is the embodiment of flexibility and harmony. To
come into conflict means losing them. The Master can never let it happen.
- If one wants to become close to the
school and enter it he has to be tested; he has to prove his determination
to become a Master and his allegiance to the Way of perfection. This is
the law of Masters.
Chapter 22
Passing
the Fire
Studying
- It’s
impossible to become a Master without being taught by another Master.
- A
Master is ready to go to the other end of the galaxy for a piece of
knowledge.
- He
is ready to work heard for years to move a little bit further.
- A
Master can be very self-disciplined for a small success.
- A
true Master won’t reveal the mysteries of the Way to someone who doesn’t
follow it not out of pride but out of respect for the method and the Way.
- A
true Master won’t live under conditions that could prevent him from
performing the Way. Being a Master means to understand the best tactics
and strategy on the Way.
- A
Master is aware of his imperfection as he knows that the sky is the limit and
the Way has no end.
- A
true Master teaches only those who are worthy and loyal to the Way like he
is.
- A
Master doesn’t look for disciples as he knows that the method and the Way
will bring to him the right people.
- An amateur pretending to mastery should
know that his boldest dreams can become true. But the price for it is all
his illusions, including the illusion of “I”.
- A
true Master is a Master for being and for his self, not for other people.
If he happens to lead others he does it out of respect for his line.
- No
one can become a Master without tests and trials.
- When
one is taught by a Master there is nothing he couldn’t do; at least he
should do his best.
- Right
training discloses mysteries which a neophyte couldn’t even dream about.
- A
Master doesn’t tell anyone to follow the Way or to believe in the method.
If he sees the signs he’ll say that the Way exists, but he who wants to
follow it must prove his readiness to do it.
- Constant training on the path of
perfection has nothing to do with rushing ahead; it’s the skill of being
in the present moment.
- A true Master knows that he doesn’t pass
the disciple anything the latter hasn’t already got. But what a trial the
disciple should go trough in order to understand it.
Chapter 23
Spirit’s
Net
The
Trick Knowledge
- In
first years of training the Master teaches the disciple with the help of
trick knowledge, as the disciple isn’t yet ready to follow direct
instructions of the line.
- Teaching
with the help of trick knowledge means that the Master focuses disciple’s
attention on things which are not directly connected with the Way of
freedom.
- This
method is a trick of the Master, his skill to veil the Way; it’s called
the trick knowledge.
- A
true Master is very skillful in such tricks. This skill is the result of
his flexibility.
- There
is no such knowledge in the universe that a Master couldn’t use as a
trick.
- The
form of the trick knowledge varies depending on Master`s interests and
personality and on the nature of the disciple.
- Some
Masters use stories about sky walkers and the Masters of the past; the
other give schemes and classifications; the third tell to do the job the
disciple is used to do not trying to derive benefit from it.
- The
trick knowledge easily switches disciple’s attention from his old dreams
to new ones; it causes Spirit flashes and intensifies disciple’s shine.
- The
trick knowledge is so valuable because it’s easy to accumulate the shine
with its help.
Chapter 24
Disciple’s
Mistakes
- When
the disciple starts the Way and tries to approach to his Master he is
inclined to making mistakes as all his judgements
are based upon his imaginings from the sleep of mind.
- Being
aware of it a good Master consciously puts the disciple into situations
where his imaginings are easily observed and his mistakes may be pointed
out.
- When
disciple’s imaginings are revealed, the Master points this out and helps
the disciple to get rid of knowledge from the world of dreams.
- Even
a short presence of a Master and his pointing at dreams can remove the control
of the sleep of mind.
- The
more prepared the disciple is the more uncompromising is the Master.
- A
skilful Master can easily create a situation where the sleep of mind simply
disappears.
- Living
near such Master is a rare blessing for the disciple; every moment becomes
a Spirit flash.
Chapter 25
Admitting
Mistakes
1.
How
does studying in Master’s school begin? It begins with acknowledgement of
mistakes. Nobody is allowed to study in Master’s school without having admitted
his mistakes.
2.
When
the disciple acknowledges his mistakes he sees how pointless, empty and petty
his life was before he heard the call of the Infinite Spirit and started the
Way. Noticing it he doesn’t want to waste his life.
3.
When
the disciple admits his mistakes he sees how often he turned away from the call
of the Infinity indulging his dark sides, yielding to imaginings, darkness of
soul and the sleep of mind.
4.
When
the disciple admits his mistakes he really regrets his chasing for mirages that
gave him nothing that can be at least as valuable as a thousandth of a Spirit
flash in his heart.
5.
Admitting
his mistakes he promises to change his life completely and to reorganize it so that
every moment could be a step on the path of perfection. He gives a sincere
promise of being worthy of his Masters.
6.
When
the disciple becomes a Master he gains perfect self-discipline and stops making
even small mistakes.
7.
When
the Master knows his self he understands that there couldn’t be any mistakes. It
was the sleep of his mind.
Chapter 26
The
Twilight of the Soul
Approaching
to the Master: Admit Oneself Dreaming
- When
the disciple acknowledges his mistakes he finally admits that he is
dreaming. He acknowledges that he sees a dream of mind instead of the real
world. If the disciple has enough shine this acknowledgement can give him
a bright Spirit flash that would unimaginably intensify his shine.
- Admitting
that he is dreaming opens disciple’s eyes so that he could see the reality
and his poor position in it.
- It’s
not fast and not easy to admit it. Sometimes it takes years of hard
training. But there is no other way out. Without acknowledgement being a
dreaming creature it’s impossible to even dream about a school of Masters
and about making at least a few steps on the Way to freedom.
- What
makes illusions real is the implicit faith in one’s superficial views.
- Admitting
this disciple feels like newborn. All his carelessness and self-importance
disappear; all his plans and goals seem to be talks of an insane, he sees
his life as a meaningless wandering in the vicious circle of illusions.
- The
disciple realizes that he knows nothing. All his experience gained in the
sleep of mind is only an obstacle on the Way of freedom. In this case, the
Master tells the disciple: “When you are approaching to the ocean your
knowledge about wells is only an obstacle”.
- In
that time the world splits into two parts. Watching creatures that keep on
dreaming, laughing and making plans a man of the Way can hardly keep from
crying with sympathy because he can’t help anyone, and he can’t explain
anything.
Chapter 27
The
Time of the Great Doubt
The
Power of Dreams
1. Dreams of disciple’s mind don’t
disappear and his imaginings don’t dissipate if he admits that he’s a dreaming
creature and dreams exist.
2. On the contrary, the disciple
notices how deep are they and how tenacious is their grip; his imaginings keep
him in fetters and never leave him alone.
3. Some disciples laugh at themselves
accepting dreaming creature’s destiny; they follow the Way with confidence and
with ease.
4. Others get angry at the sleep of
mind and take dreams as a challenge. They decide to accept the challenge and
fight with dreams to win or die.
5. Third give way to despair and cry
all the time. Then the Master cheers the disciple up and says that man of the
Way’s life is joyous, it is a wet smile.
6. Poignant realization of his dreaming
state bringing pain and making the soul tremble is a sure sign showing that the
disciple begins to free himself from the sleep of mind.
7. Masters call this time “the time of the
great doubt”; as nothing remains the same for him who has realized that he
lives in eternal dream of his mind.
8. In the time of the great doubt the
disciple feels like he goes trough lifeless desert of dreams where nothing can
give him consolation, sense of reliability or comfort.
9. Then from the depth of disciple’s
heart comes a desperate cry for the Master and for the Infinite Spirit.
10. This cry is so loud and sincere that
it makes illusions pause. The sleep of mind trembles and loosens its grip.
11. So, for the first time, he hears the
clear voice of the Infinity. It comes from the point of his Spirit where no
illusions, no doubt and no dreaming mind can be. It seems that this imperceptible
voice comes into the depth of his heart and whispers: “Don’t seek for the
reality everywhere, just get rid of your ego”.
12. When the disciple hears this it
seems like the world and dreams stop and then become something different.
Chapter 28
The Voice of the Infinity
- The
voice of the Infinity opens the disciple his own mystery. The mystery of his
greatness. It tells him that there never was a separated individually
thinking creature beyond the Infinity; there were dreams which deluded him.
- The
first thing that is needed is to accept this fact and to stop treat
oneself too seriously.
- A
person is a myth. This myth is deeply rooted. But it is still a myth.
- Understanding
this gives the disciple a spirit flash that totally changes his attitude
to himself, the world of dreams and the Infinity.
- So
the disciple really becomes a true man of the Way who respects his choice.
- His
spirit becomes disciplined; his doings become correct; his words become
firm; he looks as alert as a warrior before the final battle.
- In
this moment it reveals to him that even dreams, his or somebody else’s, shine
pridely in their core as Infinity’s
incomprehensible Game.
- He
sees that Infinity’s greatness doesn’t leave dreaming creatures even for a
moment; it’s infinite even in the sleep of mind.
- Then
hostile attitude towards dreams, creatures from the sleep of mind and he
himself changes into reverent, and the disciple feels he is able to admit
the fact of his greatness, the greatness of Infinity’s part.
Chapter 29
The
Nature of Disciples
- The
disciples the Infinity brought to the Master are different in their
nature. The superior are called “sky inhabitants”, “children of gods”. The
middle ones are called “heroes”. The lowest ones are called “bound by
dreams”.
- “Bound
by dreams” are shy, slow-witted and restless; they have some will but
their faith is mixed with doubt. They follow the human Way for a long time
and attain detachment with great difficulty after undergoing many severe
trials. They merge in the Infinity in the end of their lives or when they
leave this world.
- “Heroes”
are clever, self-contained, independent, enterprising and fearless; they
trust the Way and the Master. They pass tests with fortitude. They go the
Way smoothly and get signs of the Spirit in time. They merge in the
Infinity in the end or in the middle of their lives and then dance joyfully
in the field of Infinity’s Game.
- “Sky
inhabitants” are the best. They are detached, absorbed in the Infinity,
noble, compassionate, tranquil, wise, delicate and gifted. They study and
pass tests easily. They merge in the Infinity in the beginning or in the
middle of their lives and then play Games and live in the pure area of the
Infinity staying on earth.
Chapter 30
The
Power of Decision
Disciples`
Test
- The
whisper of the wind of freedom turns heads of many, but there are only a
few who fly. Not every person who meets a Master is ready to go to freedom
to the end. That’s why the Master should test the disciple before
accepting him.
- The
Master tests disciple’s strength of Spirit, respect for his choice and
readiness to change his life.
- Every
disciple has to prove he is worthy of following the Way. Every disciple
has to confirm his readiness to look in the eyes of eternity and to face
the blazing abyss of the infinite Spirit.
- He
who didn’t pass these tests can’t study, this is
the law of Masters. This law is Masters` care and compassion for
disciples. If a feeble, weak-will disciple opens up before the Infinite
Spirit he won’t stand this and will hurt himself.
- A
Master can see signs in any word, gesture, deed or choice of his disciple;
these can be the signs of readiness, strength of spirit and faith or
timidity and doubt about the Way.
- In
order to test a disciple some Masters resort to a great amount of various
tricks revealing spirit of the disciple. Some test disciples in ordinary
life; some test disciples` faith; some test disciple’s strength of spirit,
and some test the quickness of wit and flexibility.
- Being
tested by a good Master is a rare luck. Such test is a meeting with the
Infinite Spirit; it changes the disciple anyway.
- The
disciple who passed the tests is going to change completely. Because true
Master’s test changes everything in the disciple.
- When
the disciple passes the tests he proves his readiness for the Way; he doesn’t
need to prove it to the Master, as the Master knows all from the beginning.
He proves it to himself.
- Testing the disciple the Master never
acts directly and never forces the disciple to do anything; he’s given
freedom in choosing.
- The
disciple who asks to release him from the test will be released from it.
One who asks for indulgence will have what he asks for. Nevertheless,
having done this, he strikes himself off the list of those who will attain
liberty. Masters know it and they
feel a bit sad.
- Years
pass before the disciple realizes whether he passed the tests.
- One
who hasn’t passed the tests is not Master’s disciple.
- He
is still waiting for a chance to become a disciple some day.
- Nobody
can hasten this chance except for the disciple himself, as the disciple
always has freedom in choosing.
Chapter 31
What
is Important to the Master
- Accepting
disciples the Master reads the signs of descending power, sky inhabitants
and sky walkers. If the signs are favourable he
will easily accept the disciple.
- If
the signs are unfavourable he’ll find a reason
to decline disciple’s request and to send him to another Master confusing
him with unfriendly treatment, stories about difficulties of the Way or
pretending to be an ordinary dreaming creature.
- Unfavourable signs point at the future
difficulties in the Way and in relationships with the Master or at the
fact that powerful forces, sky inhabitants, the rulers of disciple’s
destiny, aren’t pleased with his choice.
- Sometimes
they don’t want to let the disciple go before they sure he’s confident of
his choice. The disciple can overcome unfavourable
signs only through displaying his unlimited will and determination.
- If
the signs aren’t distinguished, the Master tests the disciple until he’s
sure that the disciple is worthy of following the Way of Masters.
Chapter 32
What
isn’t Important to the Master
- What
biggest mistake the disciple makes in his mutual relationships with the
Master? It is that he still really supposes that the Master and he are
ordinary people following the Way.
- Being
the Infinity the Master sees the disciple as Infinity’s emanation. In the
same time, he sees a person who doesn’t understand the fact of its
conventionality and absolute dependence on the Infinity. Seeing it the
Master tries to explain his vision to the disciple.
- Master`s
attitude towards disciple’s personality is quite humorous just like his
attitude to his own personality.
- It is not important what the disciple,
his dreaming part concretely, thinks; the Master understands that disciple’s
thoughts are illusions. Thinking without the light of clarity is dreaming.
- It
is not important what the disciple says or knows; to say and to know being
not free of what you know is to dream.
- Nevertheless,
the Master pretends to be interested in disciple’s dreams. Examining makes
it easier to get rid of them.
- The
Master does his job sincerely, and his interest in disciple’s dreams is
real. Whatever the disciple says or thinks the Master sees only Infinity’s
Game.
- Dreams
remain dreams in the endless labyrinth of the sleep of mind.
Chapter 33
Master’s
Three Languages
- The
Master has three languages in which he can tell the disciple about the
Infinite Spirit and the Way.
- The
first is the language of words and logic nourishing consciousness during
the day. This language is good for explaining the human Way, but it’s not
good for explaining the Way of sky walkers. Everything that can be written
in this language is the human part of the Way.
- The
second is the language of symbols and images; it nourishes the twilight
consciousness and the subtle body in the sleep. It’s good for explaining the
human part of the Way, and it’s especially good for explaining sky
inhabitants` part of the Way. But even this language can’t be used to
explain the inexpressible understanding of the Infinity.
- The
third is the language of silence, voidness, not
being, a crazy Game and a paradox. It’s not good for explaining the human
part of the Way. It’s good to explain the inexpressible understanding of
the Infinite Spirit.
- The
best Master speaks all these languages.
Chapter 34
A Mystery
- The
Infinity is an endless mystery; it can’t be unraveled.
- Even
Masters and sky inhabitants can’t unravel Infinity’s mystery; they can only
become a part of it.
- Since
the Infinity is a great mystery the Way to freedom is interpenetration
into endless mystery.
- Man
of the Way’s life is a mystery; a mystery for him most of all.
- When
the Infinity becomes something known and is told like about something known
it is not the Infinity at all; it’s a forgery made in dreaming creatures` sleep
of mind.
- That’s
why no Master would ever talk about the Infinity like about something
known.
- If
it seems that he talks about the Infinity this way it means that it is
only a trick of Master who doesn’t care about the words he says.
- When
the disciple touches a mystery the world and he change. Nothing can remain
the same for him who was touched by the mystery of the Way.
- Following
the Way for years the disciple gets used to that life is being filled with
ineffable mystery. But can one become used to the impossible?
- He cherishes the mystery of his Way
hiding it from curious eyes like a precious diamond.
- He
does it not from self-love; it is just a characteristic of the Way.
- Since
the Spirit touched the disciple all his life became a mystery for dreaming
creatures `world.
- In
the world of dreams creatures believe that anything can become known; when
they hear about a mystery they try to make it known sticking labels of
their illusions on it. Doing this they feel satisfied; they think the
mystery is disclosed. In point of fact, they shut their eyes to it
covering themselves with illusions of previous estimations.
- A man of the Way only laughs as he knows
that the Infinity veils itself disguising as familiar things to keep
dreaming creatures` sleep of mind going so that they could do things as
usual.
- There
are no mysteries in dreaming creatures` lives; actually, it seems there are
not. But they and their lives are a greatest mystery that hides from them.
Chapter 35
Keeping
the Secret
- Disciple
who is not able to keep secrets won’t ever approach to the Master.
- If
one hasn’t learned to keep secrets each step on the Way may be a mistake.
- The
Masters of the past used to say that keeping secrets endues the sacred
connection with immense power.
- Disciple
who has lost the feeling of mystery loses the sacred connection and stops
being a disciple, just as a bird which lost her wings can’t fly.
- If
secrets are thoughtlessly told and common things are brought in the Way’s
Spirit Way’s keepers become angry, and unfavourable
signs show up; sky inhabitants and sky walkers give the disciple up as the
human habit of making everything common is alien to them; the disciple
feels that the Spirit of the Way left him.
- To
keep secret is not like hiding something; a man of the Way has nothing to
hide. To keep secret is to keep a reverent Spirit of the sacred
connection.
- Reverence
for the secrets of the Way attracts descending power and Spirit flashes
enduing the disciple with infinite greatness.
Chapter 36
The
World of Solid Dreams
The
Dark Side of the Soul
- What
keeps the disciple in the world of dreams? The absence of the light of
clarity. If solid dreams are not recognized as shining they become
darkness in the soul.
- The
darkness in disciple’s soul is a solid part of his consciousness from where
Infinity’s hard energies are radiated. Hard energies form solid dreams;
there is no free will, self-remembrance or light of clarity in them.
- The
darkness in the soul is a solid gloomy sleep of mind which sometimes captures
a weak disciple demoralizing him, weakening his will and detachment.
- The
darkness in the soul doesn’t exist for the Master. He sees it as more solid
kind of Infinity’s emanations. For the disciple things are not like this.
- Solid
dreams and hard energies of the Infinity are attractive because they endue those who merge in them with immense power. Just
for a moment they make one experience the power and greatness of the
Infinity.
- If
the disciple is weak he will be depressed and confused experiencing solid
dreams. Their touch costs the disciple losing the light of clarity,
detachment, and self-remembrance and weakening of Spirit’s shine. In this
case Masters say: “You are the one who thinks that his chains are made of
gold”.
- So
the Master tells the disciple to change his tactics, step back, hide and
relax to gain strength, self-reliance and detachment.
- For
that purpose the disciple accumulates Spirit’s shine until it would be
enough to continue the Way.
- The
store of Spirit’s shine allows the disciple to look straight into the
darkness of soul, dissipating it with the help of the light of clarity and
staying away from dreams.
Chapter 37
Four
Enemies Waiting for a Man on the Way to Freedom
- A
man of the Way meets four strong enemies. If he is defeated by any of them
he won’t be able to continue his Way to liberty.
- The
first enemy is blind affection for desires and indulging fancies; it is
darkness in the soul making a man weak and incapable of the Way. He who can’t
defeat or outwit this enemy feels powerless as a leashed animal; he isn’t
able to fight for freedom anymore.
- The
second enemy is attachment for a worthless usual idea of oneself, for a usual
view of the world, for common current of thoughts, for self-pity, for
everything dear to a shallow soul, to a weak human spirit. It is a
small-minded narcissism.
- This
enemy gives no chance to leave illusions and change. It is more subtle
than the first enemy, and more dangerous. Defeated by him will at best
remain a traveler charmed with his clarity forever wandering in endless
labyrinths of his “I”.
- He
makes a follower believe that he goes in right direction though in reality
he has lost his way.
- The
third enemy is power, wisdom, skills and abilities equal to those of gods;
they lure with possibilities and false feeling of being free; they make one
stop satisfied with this all.
- Defeated
by the third enemy the man of the Way may delight in his strength
broadening the borders of his “I”; but he won’t perceive the true meaning
of his strength, and in the end he will die having not attained liberty.
- The
fourth enemy is old age and death coming suddenly and irreversibly giving
no time to complete the Way to liberty. This enemy is the strongest one;
only they who fought for every moment on their Ways and got all gifts of
the Infinite Spirit can defeat him.
Chapter 38
The
Integrity of the Spirit
The
Respect for One’s Choice
- The
disciple following the Way of freedom learns to respect his choice
infinitely.
- What
is Master`s choice? He chooses to live without choice in the unity with
the Spirit. He chooses following the Way of freedom.
- The
Master respects the choice he made confirming it in every moment.
- An
inexperienced disciple is inclined to forget about the choice he made. The
Master won’t allow this; following his choice of freedom is the same that
to live and to breathe or even more.
- To
teach the disciple to respect for his choice and to be responsible for it
the Master tests him again and again before he becomes sure that the disciple
remembers about it all the time.
- What
does respect for one’s choice mean? It means being ready to give the world
for it.
- Having
not learned to respect his choice the disciple couldn’t even dream of
entering Master`s school; and his dreams about the Way will remain dreams.
Chapter 39
Self-restraint and Commitment
- Before
entering the gates of Master’s school the disciple has to pass the tests
in self-restraint and commitment to the Way.
- Self-restraint
and commitment are the easiest lessons given on the threshold of Master`s
school.
Chapter 40
Self-restraint
- Self-restraint
is a principle of disciplehood. Self-restraint helps
to control illusions and oneself. To do with little is a law of the Way.
- Self-restraint
brings indifference to ways of this world. All ways of this world are
bonds. That’s why the disciple must gain indifference to them through
self-restraint.
- He
who isn’t able to do with little won’t attain spiritual integrity, and
gifts of eternity won’t touch him. When the disciple learns to do with
little he gains universe.
- The
ability of doing with little makes disciple’s spirit light, his mind free,
and his will indestructible. These are gifts of eternity. When these gifts
are attained the disciple is ready to study as now he’s indifferent to
ways of this world.
- Only
he who is indifferent to ways of this world is worthy of becoming a
disciple in Master’s school.
- As
indifference to ways of this world is attained external self-restraint has
no more importance for the disciple; that’s just his eyes that see the
world differently. A habit of self-restraint remains in the disciple for
good as Spirit’s detachment.
Chapter 41
Commitment
- He
who didn’t perceive commitment wouldn’t be honored by superior forces and wouldn’t
receive the gifts of Spirit as he is closed to the call of eternity.
- “To
give everything” is the spirit of disciplehood. Disciple
who can’t give everything won’t attain the Infinity. Commitment is the
sacrifice of disciple’s “I” to the Infinite Spirit.
- Only
he who can give everything attains all and becomes everything. A Master is
a person who gave all individual and attained all infinite. No one can
become a Master without giving all. That’s the rule of the Way.
- The
fruits of commitment are immeasurable; its mysteries are startling, and
its possibilities are unlimited.
- The
disciple begins with small; he gives his attachments, his pride, his usual
worldview, his way of living with people, his hopes and plans. Starting
from giving small things he proceeds to “the great commitment” giving his self.
In Master`s view, this giving is a conventionality; he sees that the
disciple had nothing from the beginning. That’s why he smiles at seeing
how selfless the disciple is in his commitment.
- What
does the disciple give? His illusions. His illusions are real; and
disciple’s perseverance should be real too.
Chapter 42
Four
High Senses
- As
the disciple is tested the Master teaches him how to attain new attitude
to the world and to himself.
- In
the sleep of his mind the disciple roamed in vicious circle of dreams for
a very long time so in the beginning his spirit may be weak, fretful,
gloomy, envious or presuming depending on his nature.
- To
be safe from the dark part of his spirit he cherishes high senses of sky
inhabitants.
- So
they are: infinite motiveless joy that eliminates darkness in the soul and
depression of disciple’s spirit. The disciple dances with joy seeing the
sky and mountains, the stars upon his head and the grass under his feet.
- In
moments of such joy the disciple feels one with the Infinity.
- The
second sense is unlimited causeless love for everything which eliminates disciple’s
hostile temper. It allows experiencing the world the way the Infinity does
when it touches the disciple.
- Training
in being in love with the world the disciple erases his illusions about
good and bad to realize that everything in the world is inexpressible, sacred,
wonderful, perfect and worthy of being loved; it may seem good or bad
according to the conditions which a dreaming creature is under and to the
view of the sleeping mind.
- The
third sense is unlimited empathy, the faculty to sense others.
- Unlimited
empathy dissolves disciple’s sense of exceptionality. The sense of exceptionality
makes his spirit vain, petty and arrogant.
- Unlimited empathy removes the cover of
the sleep of mind bringing the disciple to a level beyond personality; his
spirit exceeds his own experiencing myriads of creatures in the universe
as one thing.
- The fourth feeling is great detachment
and dispassionateness; with its help the disciple experiences great
mysteries of the Infinity, sees incomprehensible and touches the eternity keeping
his mind.
- Attaining these high senses the disciple
cherishes them so that they forced out his spirit’s darkness and
gloominess, vanity and self-love and cleared the way for infinite greatness
equal to the greatness of sky inhabitants, children of gods.
Chapter 43
Spirit’s
shine
- Spirit’s
shine feels like good mood, constant feeling of happiness and luck.
- Spirit’s
shine is something inherent in sky inhabitants, children of gods.
- It
is greatness, delicacy, beauty, wisdom, will, joy and inspiration in the
same time.
- It
is something that induces the disciple to create, to love, and to admire when
he follows the Way.
- Spirit’s
shine forces the darkness out of disciple’s soul and dissolves his solid
dreams. When dreams are dissolved the disciple having strong shine becomes
like sky inhabitants, children of gods.
- Studying
always begins with accumulating Spirit’s shine. The Way cannot be without the
reserve of the shine; only with the shine the disciple is able to listen
to the voice of the Infinity and to intensify the light of clarity.
- Strong
shine can eliminate even solid sleep of mind.
Chapter 44
Accumulating
the Shine
- How
Spirit’s shine is accumulated? The disciple accumulates shine through properly
doing the tasks the Master gives him. He consciously produces the high senses
and accumulates them.
- Accumulated
shine can be seen by others as the coming out light of clarity. The light
of clarity endues the disciple with better characteristics such as
patience, commitment, detachment, will, acceptance of all and remembrance of
the Infinity.
- They
say that better characteristics appear when the reserve of the shine
becomes big.
Chapter 45
The
Beginning of the Way
Disciple’s
Oath
- Entering
the gates of the school the disciple swears to be loyal to the Way; he
promises that he’ll be a disciple worthy of Masters` line.
- Though
he swears his oath before the Master and the companions, the other
disciples, it’s not them who need it as he needs it himself. He needs it
to believe in his choice and to respect it.
- Starting
the Way the disciple still doesn’t believe he’s really doing this, and
that his life is being changed irreversibly.
- Swearing
the oath the disciple swears he’ll follow the Way according to Master’s instructions.
- It’s
necessary because the Way is incredibly deep and subtle; it has some
unpredictable aspects. The slightest neglect or mistake can nullify long
years of teaching and training. A respecting himself man of the Way won’t
let this happen.
- Swearing
the oath the disciple promises to respect his choice, the Master and the
companions. He intends to uphold the honour of
ancient Masters and to complete his Way of liberty.
Chapter 46
Accepting
the Rules
- When
the disciple is accepted the Master explains to him the rules he must
follow on his Way. These rules were given by the Masters of the past. The
rules present their personal experience of following the Way of liberty.
- He
says that obeying these rules gives immense power and control over
illusions, increases the shine and makes disciple’s Spirit detached and
invincible.
- In
the beginning of the Way disciple’s spirit is weak; his shine isn’t
bright, and his will and detachment aren’t developed so following the Way
without rules is worse than not following it at all.
- The
rules are like protective shields guarding disciple’s Spirit from enemies
and traps on the Way.
- The
disciple who applies the rules skillfully easily gains detachment and
enters the field of Infinity’s Games. Incapability of obeying the rules
shows that the reserve of the shine isn’t large, and the disciple has
neither detachment nor flexibility. So his Way will be extremely hard and scarcely
will be completed in this life.
Chapter 47
The
Essence of the Rules
- Each
line has its own rules. Rules themselves are conventional. Their
importance varies according to the circumstances, and they have no importance
beyond circumstances. The rules may vary, but the disciple who has made up
his mind to obey them should be ready to keep them like the apple of his
eye.
- When
the Master explains the rules, he says that one should perceive their
essence or they will become new dreams. That’s why one should feel their
essence when he obeys them.
- The
rules of the Masters of the past have nothing to do with dreaming
creatures` habitual morality, though they don’t reject it if it helps on
the Way.
- Some
Master consider that at the beginning, the moral principles of people
living in the world of dreams were Way of the Spirit men’s rules that were
given them by the Masters of the past, which were the founders of ancient
lines. Then the rules were infiltrated into other people’s sleep of mind.
- The
infiltrated rules were accepted as something that has always been and
became new dreams. Sometimes they do good, giving dreaming creatures the
opportunity of accumulating the shine. Though thoughtless obeying makes
them some bonds of mind, and they bind will – the Spirit of freedom
existing in every creature as the inner call.
- The
rules help to protect disciple’s Spirit of freedom. The meaning of the
rules is to train disciple’s will and detachment, to cherish his energy
and to accumulate the shine. What is important is the Spirit of totality
the rules bring, not their form.
Chapter 48
The
Kinds of Rules
- The
Masters of the past took care of disciples and created extensive code of
detailed rules to make the Way easier. They said that rules can be
external (a jug), interior (the milk in the jug), and sacred (the butter
made of this milk).
- The
interior rules aren’t connected with anything specific; they express
disciple’s Spirit, his mood and attitude towards himself, the Way, the
Master and the companions. They are called “the sacred connection”.
- There’s
only one secret rule: to remember one’s self, to be free of the sleep of
mind and to listen to the voice of the Infinity all the time and
everywhere.
Chapter 49
A Leap
into the Abyss
Releasing
from Rules
- Since
the Infinity is free from any rules so to perceive the Infinity means to become
free from being detached to anything even to the rules of the Way.
- The
Master tells how to derive strength from obeying rules and to be free from
them in the same time. It becomes possible if one constantly remembers
that rules are Infinity’s Game.
- To
be free is to be able to follow the rules consciously and willingly, staying
free and being responsible for following the rules. Only Masters teach how
to do this. Clever and conscious applying of the rules endues the disciple
with immense spiritual power.
- The
Master says that the rules are illusions that are useful for disciple’s
Spirit and energy. They are conventional temporary and depend on the
circumstances.
- Nevertheless
they are important because they express a definite mood of the Spirit, and
the disciple makes no mistakes on his Way to liberty following them.
- Master’s
skill is in teaching the disciple to follow the rules “without following”
and accomplish them “without accomplishing”.
- The
Masters of the past told that making mind free from bonds and rules releases
the disciple. But one should do it clever carefully and staying detached using
his light of clarity and remembering the Infinity.
- In
this case the Master says: “When one makes his mind free from chains he
should remember that eternity establishes no strict rules, but every
mistake costs as much as it asks”.
- Masters
say that such precautions are needed to protect the Spirit from harm and
to keep balance between worlds not to make the guardians angry. The rules
also prevent from falling into illusions when one comes into
the solid worlds.
Chapter 50
Being
the Sky
Secret
Rule
- Some
Masters of the past said that the Infinity has no rules. Other Masters say
that it’s the rule itself so it can produce any rule according to the
circumstances of its Games.
- Third
say that the Infinity has only one secret rule: “be absolutely free without
restrictions”. It’s also said that there is only one secret rule: “remember
the Infinity”. The secret rule is called “the connection with the Spirit”,
“the great oath”. They are all correct.
- A
man who follows the Way should remember the secret rule and keep it within
his heart as his inner mystery, dream and hope.
- If
he cherishes the secret rule he will easily follow many small rules
accepted in the world of dreams. He understands that they are conventional
and important in the same time.
Chapter 51
Walking
along the Rainbow
The
Principle of Masters
- External
rules are not very important for Master who had known his self; detachment,
self-discipline and remembering the Infinity are spontaneously inherent in
him.
- Being
great Game Masters some Masters of the past undeviatingly followed
external ruled for all their lives by virtue of their nature. Some followed
rules to cheer up their disciples; others didn’t follow the rules externally
but carefully obeyed them inwardly hiding their skill and high Spirit
under the disguise of prosiness and carelessness
so that strangers didn’t pay attention to them.
- The
third carefully followed the rules inwardly but pretended to transgress
them in public; this way they exercised in patience, flexibility and acceptance
of all trusting in the main secret rule - to remember the Infinity. They
are called “exercising in the sacred, the great non-abidance”. It’s spoken
of them that, “he who is drunk with the nectar of immortality doesn’t care
about the container”.
- All
Masters follow the main secret rule “to be in the natural and to remember
the Infinity” in the same way with great commitment and detachment.
- Masters
won’t make a single step if the Infinity doesn’t want it. Masters listen
to Infinity’s voice; they always understand the situation finding the best
way to act. By the virtue of it they easily obey many small rules.
- Their
careful way of following the inward rules is the art though it may not be seen
in the behaviour. Their will, understanding and
detachment are so deep that even sky inhabitants admire them.
Chapter 52
Heart’s
Blood
The
Thread of the Sacred Connection
- What
links the disciple with the Master, the Way and the circle of companions?
It’s the sacred thread of the Spirit.
- The
sacred connection is the invisible thread linking the disciple, the
Spirit, the Way, the Master and the companions.
- The
sacred connection having emerged, the disciple is born. Without the sacred
connection the disciple doesn’t exist, and the Way is not clear.
Disciple’s heart blossoms with the sacred connection, and the method of
the Way becomes stronger with it.
- There
are two kinds of the sacred connection cherished by the disciple: the
connection inherent in sky inhabitants and the secret connection. The
sacred connection inherent in sky inhabitants links him with the Three
Treasures: the Master, the Way and the companions. It’s disciple’s promise
of sincerity and of purity of vision. The secret connection is the
connection with the Infinite Spirit.
- The
sacred connection is disciple’s love for the Master, his promise of the
pure vision, allegiance to the Way and respect for the companions. That’s
the only way to thank the Master and the companions for their help on the
Way. This is the answer to Master’s love and sympathy and to companions`
care. The secret connection is admiration for the Spirit of eternity. It
is disciple’s promise of remembering the Infinity all the time.
- The
great task of the Master is to train the disciple in the sacred
connection. The great task of the disciple is to keep the connection pure.
A broken connection is the worst enemy, and the Master is the best friend.
- Nobody
can learn the Way from the Master without having established the sacred
connection. Having no sacred connection the disciple won’t be able to
enter the dimension of Master’s purity. Without this sacred thread,
linking him with the Way, the great Way seems to be a grey road, and the
world seems to be a strange universe.
- The
best disciple establishes the secret connection with the Infinite Spirit
through the Master, not telling him from the Infinite Spirit. The thread
of the sacred connection leads the disciple to the pure world of sky
inhabitants, and he cherishes it like precious jewelry.
- When
the sacred thread of the Spirit is damaged only disciple’s sincerity and
honesty and Master’s wisdom can save the day. Otherwise, disciple’s Spirit
would be broken for long time and the Way would be lost.
- If the sacred connection is desecrated by
inadvertence, the spiritual Way of the disciple reaches a deadlock. He
meets a defeat and fells into the darkness of soul with his spirit broken.
Then the only way for him is to admit his mistake and to restore the
sacred thread of the Spirit with Master’s help.
Chapter 53
The
Golden Isle
The
Pure Vision
- The
sacred connection is the promise of the pure vision that the disciple
gives the Master in the beginning of the Way. The purity of vision
establishes the sacred connection and maintains it. The Way and the sacred
connection can’t be without purity.
- The
pure vision means that the disciple is getting used to see the world
gorgeous, sacred, lightful, pure, spontaneous
free and creative.
- In
the pure vision the disciple tries to see the world as a field of
Infinity’s Game, all creatures as its pure emanations, sky inhabitants;
all sounds as Infinity’s songs, and all that happens to him as touches and
signs of the Spirit.
- The
purity of vision is a try to see the world as a sacred place even if it
doesn’t seem to be it.
- Constant
trying brings the disciple to the true vision, and he realizes that the
world is really sacred. The disciple sees that the world is like a golden
isle; there is not a grain of sand or soil.
- Attaining
of the pure vision marks the level of the sameness of taste. It means that
the disciple sees the world as a sacred temple, an infinite golden
pattern. He hears its sound like sacred melodies; he sees others and
himself as splendid beings and all that happens to him on the Way as an
incomprehensible Game of the Infinite Spirit.
- The
disciple sees the Master webbed of light as a splendid embodiment of the
Spirit; he sees the Way and the method as the displays of Spirit’s
finesse; he sees the companions as divine Spirit` warriors. When he sees
this way he changes the idea of himself.
- Only
he who can see beauty in ugly things, sanctity in habitual, greatness in
disgrace, perfection in squalor, sublimity in meanness and bliss in misery
is worthy of being called the Master realized the Way.
- The
purity of vision isn’t something artificial, created through exercising;
it’s the natural way of seeing things as they are. Exercising is needed
because the disciple can’t see it in the beginning. And how can one
comprehend this without the vision?
- The purity of vision helps the Master to
sail in the field of Infinite Spirit’s Game.
- The man of the Way tries to see the world
as a sacred field of Spirit’s Game even if he doesn’t really sees it.
- The pure vision leads to the greatness of
sky inhabitants and to the sameness of taste of all visible in the
universe. The pure vision is the shortest way to see the world and its
creatures as Infinity’s luminous and self-conscious emanations.
- Masters say that the habit of the pure
vision causes better qualities such as patience, detachment, acceptance of
all and ability of the letting go.
- The pure vision intensifies the shine in
the man dissolving his sleep of mind.
- The
pure vision attracts attention of sky inhabitants, knowledge keepers and
sky walkers; they respond to their kind. As the pure vision becomes very
intensive it attracts Infinity’s touch and produces Spirit flashes.
- Attracted by the shine of the pure vision
the Infinity keeps descending until the succession of Spirit flashes occurs
and the disciple really understands that he was right about exercising in
the pure vision.
- The pure vision opens the greatness of
sky inhabitants and gives a good destiny to the disciple following the
Way. The pure vision rewards the disciple with the sameness of taste and
gives him control of the most solid dreams protecting him from the
influence of the dark side of his soul.
Chapter 54
The
First Step
Patience
- How
does the disciple start his Way when he enters the gates of Master’s
school?
- He
exercises in unlimited patience and in being able to wait and to believe.
For days, weeks, months and years he patiently waits like a lonely
mysterious dragon in the cave; he performs his obligations until his
patience grows and wakens boundless faith, will, fortitude,
self-discipline and ability to control things.
- The
way to self-control lies through patience.
- Patience
cherished for years becomes disciple’s destiny and the way of life.
- Way’s
Spirit reveals its great mysteries to him who gained unlimited patience.
It shows that the Way chosen by the disciple is the Way of eternity.
Eternity is behind and eternity is before. Vanity is out of place here;
rapid progress is impossible. The Way of patience eliminates all illusions
and falsity in the disciple; patience makes him truly respect his choice.
- Gaining
patience the disciple understands how to look at the world and his self
through eternity’s eyes. Those who gave up at the stage of patience and
gained no integrity will keep on dreaming for the rest of their lives
because the Spirit of eternity didn’t touch them. The only opportunity
they have is to start the Way of patience again.
Chapter 55
The
Second Step
Cherishing
Will
- What
is disciple’s second step on the Way? He exercises in gaining unlimited
will. Will is Spirit’s energy.
- Will
is an invaluable present given to a man by the Infinite Spirit. It can be
used only by him who proved his right to gain control of it.
- How
can control of will be gained? It’s impossible to gain control of will
because will is the source of the supreme power. But it’s possible to
ensure its patronage if one deserves its respect and becomes its ally.
- The
strength of Master’s will is so unlimited that even gods respect him. The
disciple is expected to gain the same power.
- The
Way towards liberty is blocked by powerful forces of the universe ruling
destinies of all creatures. They possess boundless will so no man can
resist them; nothing can change their intention except for a stronger will
– the will of the man who became a Master.
- Only
Master’s boundless will can interfere with the old course of events and
put destiny’s hand back. An ordinary weak-willed creature can’t do this;
he is like a prisoner in the jail, a fly stuck in honey or a bird caught
in the noose.
- Having
developed infinite will and having become a Master the disciple gains
power to control the course of events the way he wishes. His wish and Infinite
Spirit’s wish become one; now he can control things and following the Way
becomes possible.
- When
at least a part of will is gained there’s nothing in the world that the
disciple couldn’t achieve. When perfect will is applied to a wish the
result comes itself. If one fails it means that his will is not developed
or that he moves in a wrong direction. Strong will gives the disciple
unlimited self-control and control of any event in his life. The only
thing that can’t be controlled even by the most boundless will is the
Infinite Spirit because will is just its energy, its part.
- Those
disciples who gained patience but couldn’t gain boundless will can only
hope and believe. They can’t direct things and they can’t achieve what
they want. Putting destiny’s hand back is beyond their strength because
powerful creatures` will that rule their lives is much stronger.
- How can one attain boundless will? By
means of deep concentration. The Master personally teaches the disciple making
him to exercise in concentration.
- How else can one cherish will? By means
of detachment. When will is cherished there is no such thing in the world which
the disciple couldn’t leave even if this thing is he himself. Boundless
will is cherished only with Master’s help; it’s impossible to gain it by
oneself. In the disciple does things by himself he will once fancy that he
has already gained will.
- A
true Master always begins with teaching the disciple to exercise in
patience and will. If the Master doesn’t teach the disciple this way it
means that this Master has no destiny to teach or that the disciple
already has will and patience.
- If disciple’s patience and will aren’t
strong enough there can be no studying. Cherishing boundless will and
patience doesn’t mean losing love, ease, creativeness, jocosity and
spontaneity; it means making them incredibly deep.
Chapter 56
A
Sleeping Lake
Tranquility’s
Gifts
1. Cherishing will the disciple focuses
on something. When he focuses on something his mind calms down and his Spirit
becomes tranquil. Then he unites with the Infinite Spirit and they become one
for a while.
2. At first the disciple is happy with tranquility
then his happiness quietens. So he becomes completely
detached from all senses.
3. Detached from all senses he becomes
like unconscious and merges in the Infinite Spirit.
4. Merging in it he becomes formless
like the infinite sky. Being formless he experiences the world and himself as Voidness and becomes completely detached.
5. Though the disciple lost the form he
hasn’t gained absolute freedom yet but he feels that he’s ready to look into
its eyes and to leap into its blazing abyss.
6. Then he concentrates more and merges
in the Spirit so that he feels it like him himself as if there were only him as
the infinite Spirit in the whole world.
7. When his Spirit finally becomes calm
and clear the disciple comes to understanding that there is nothing except for
the Infinite Spirit in the universe. The entire world and he is Voidness. So he perceives the core of things and it doesn’t
matter if he exists or not.
8. When everything becomes the same the
Master gives the explanation how to escape the trap of non-existence; he
teaches how to be being nothing or how not to be being something.
Chapter 57
Bringing
the Crown Back
Admitting
the Fact of One’s Greatness
- Even
if the disciple gained infinite will and tranquil Spirit he wouldn’t be
relieved from the great doubt. Quite the contrary, it grows to the limit.
Only owing to patience and allegiance to the rules of Masters the disciple
lives and waits until his dreaming part gains complete detachment and
loses hope.
- Being
aware of vulnerability and instability of disciple’s spirit in the time of
the great doubt the Master constantly convinces the disciple to admit the
fact of his greatness and to derive strength from it.
- Disciple’s
greatness is the greatness of Infinity’s emanation, and that’s the fact. The
sleep of mind forced the disciple to lose his greatness so he feels separated
small and dependent on dreams. The Master points at disciple’s greatness
convincing him that accepting greatness and deriving strength and
inspiration from it is the Way of freedom.
- Disciple’s
greatness is not his human greatness. Disciple’s greatness is the greatness
of the Infinity in him. When disciple’s human part realizes this fact it
simply admits the absolute superiority of the part belonging to the
Infinity and obeys it without complaint.
- Thus
his great doubt disappears and disciple’s spirit regains integrity and
balance.
- It’s
hard to believe in greatness; the disciple remembers being a small
creature, and he remembers it day and night. In the beginning trusting in one’s
greatness is conventional and seems to be imaginary.
- From
now on disciple’s life is dedicated to cherishing this trust in the greatness
of his infinite part. When his trust forces out the remains of the sleep
of mind the disciple attains liberty.
Chapter 58
Eternity’s
Alchemy
Separating
the Dreaming Part from the Infinity
- If
disciple’s light of clarity is weak he may take his human part for the
Infinity falling into the subtle dreams. Then the Way curves and,
entrapped with new dreams, the disciple continues roaming in the eternal
circle.
- To
prevent the disciple from doing it the Master teaches him to separate his
dreaming human part from the infinity until the disciple understands what
is required of him.
- Separation
of the dreaming human part from the Infinity is the great task of man of
the Way’s whole life.
- This
separation is performed trough the light of clarity. The light of clarity
is like a thin invisible sword that cuts off illusions of hope,
attachments and fear.
- The
light of clarity will be brighter if the disciple keeps on cutting hopes,
aims and fear of his dreaming part. This is a good way to test the purity
of disciple’s light of clarity.
- It
shows that the disciple doesn’t confuse Infinity’s greatness in him with
dreams of his smaller part.
- His
dreams can become more pleasant and create the deception of personal
greatness beyond the Infinity. In this case disciple’s Way reaches the dead
end.
Chapter 59
Three
Obstacles in the Way
- Every
man following the Way of eternity and exercising in concentration comes
across three obstacles which can be went through only if he has infinite
will, trust, knowledge and courage.
- The
first obstacle is bliss; it gives the false sense of perfection and
creates the illusion of realizing the Way.
- The
second obstacle is attachment to clarity of the subtle dreams; it makes
the disciple think that he found something really valuable. It gives no
chance to move on to the absolute freedom making him feel wise and
infallible.
- The
third obstacle is the hypnotizing gaze of emptiness; it tries to make the man
weak-willed trough depreciating all his past experience; it causes endless
apathy and indifference and equals all. He who yielded to its mesmerizing
gaze falls into it like into a black mouth and stays there until the end
of his days being incapable to continue the Way.
Chapter 60
The Heart of the Way
Three Golden Principles
- As
the disciple learns to respect his choice and attains calmness he learns about
the heart of the Way, three golden principles that were given by the
Infinite Spirit. Here they are.
- The
Master merges the disciple in infinity and incomprehensibility introducing
him to the Spirit. This lights his own Spirit, and he hears the mysterious
voice of eternity.
- The
Master helps the disciple to become sure of what he has experiences and
explains the Way.
- From
here on the disciple listens to the voice of the Spirit that he heard cherishing
it like a baby until it becomes strong enough for the great transformation
into the Infinity.
Chapter 61
Singing
Dragon on the Tree
Detachment
- Becoming
indifferent to ways of this world the disciple feels his ego is dying
while he’s alive. So detachment comes.
- It
makes all actions in this world senseless. But something new global and
splendid rises in the disciple. It’s the whisper of eternity coming from
disciple’s infinite Spirit.
- To
enter the infinite he detaches from everything. Without detachment each
step made on the Way may be wrong.
- He
constantly comes across wells, canyons and peaks that stand in disciple’s
Way like guardians so he has to stay alert. Only having great detachment
he can go through them to become closer to the top of the Way.
- With
detachment he becomes one with the Spirit of the Infinity, and everything
merges in him
- Neophytes
understand detachment as rejection and denial. Master`s detachment is in
seeing the core of things, in fullness of acceptance of all.
- Neophyte’s
detachment is restriction. Master’s detachment is elimination of any
dependence.
- The
true detachment helps to accept everything and bound by nothing. It’s a life
without choice.
Chapter 62
To Hit the Mark
The Essence of Things
- Great
detachment helps to perceive the core of things. Only he who attained detachment is worthy
of being initiated into the great mystery of the core of things. The wish
to perceive the core of things without detachment is a bond.
- The
core of things is the understanding that all things in the world and the
world itself are Emptiness. Emptiness is the core of any
thing and of all things in whole. Everything comes from Emptiness. Everything is manifested but Emptiness remains
complete. Emptiness is indeterminable incomprehensible and inexpressible.
It has no borders, top, bottom, foundation or center.
- Emptiness
is the foundation of everything. The Master wonders how incomprehensible
and wonderful it is. Being nothing Emptiness comes as all things in the
world, and Emptiness is everything!
- The
Master perceived the core of things sees only Emptiness. The whole world
including him is Emptiness. Nevertheless the Master lives and walks just like
everything is real for him. It’s Master’s Game.
- When
the disciple perceives the core of things it’s he
attains Master`s view or vision.
- “To
attain vision” is to see the Emptiness of the world.
Chapter 63
To
See the World
Master’s
Vision
- There
is neither anyone who sees nor anything that can be seen.
- The
Master knows that in fact nothing can be seen as real. Playing with words he
says that he sees something. In reality he sees “not seeing”. This is the right vision.
- The
Master knows that the universe he knew was a delusion, a dream that could
never be real. What he saw as the universe was Infinity’s incomprehensible
emanation.
- He
realizes that the only reality that ever existed was the Infinite Spirit
and its Games.
- The
Master knows that he’s a drop of water in Infinity’s ocean, and the drops can’t
be by themselves.
- The
Master knows that all that happens in the universe from movement of insects
to appearance of galaxies is the breath of Infinity’s great wind.
- Looking
at things in the infinite world the Master knowing the core of things sees
only perfect incomprehensible Games of the Infinity. In wakes the great
wind and plays in endless worlds creating universes.
Chapter 64
Looking
at the Sun
Self-Remembrance
- Self-remembrance
is a subtle skill the disciple learns when he has perceived the essence of
things.
- No
one can attain absolute liberty without self-remembrance even if he realized
the essence of things.
- Master`s
self-remembrance continues day and night, in heat and in cold, in joy and
in grief, when he walks and when he talks. Nothing can make him forget his
self. He can give everything except for self-remembrance.
- Self-remembrance
is the key that opens the door to the Infinity. Self-remembrance is a secret
way to Spirit’s treasures. The Masters of the past attained liberty with
the help of self-remembrance. Creatures lose liberty when they forget
their selves.
- Only
self-remembrance helps to merge in the Infinity. That’s why
self-remembrance is called “listening to the voice of the Spirit”.
- The
Infinity established a rule of remembering one’s self everywhere and all
the time.
- In
the beginning the disciple thinks that to remember himself is to remember
his human part.
- So
he remembers himself as a man. As the Infinity opens to him he understands
that the thing that should always be remembered has nothing to do with human
things; it’s the Infinity.
- So
he remembers the Infinity and takes his human part in humour.
- The human part is a very small part of
the Infinity. But the Master doesn’t reject it; he knows that it’s a
precious gift of the Infinite Spirit too.
- Beginning from remembering himself as a
human being the Master gradually knows his self and remembers the Infinity.
It’s said that he “contemplates the natural”, “has the vision” or “knows”.
Chapter 65
A
Dry Leaf on the Road
Letting
go
- Disciple’s
commitment results in complete letting go. Letting go is the heart of the
Way. Letting go is the top of disciple’s commitment. When the disciple
perceives the essence of things and attains detachment he performs letting
go.
- Letting
go is impossible without perceiving the essence of things. How can one
attain freedom without letting go? For the disciple letting go means that the
human meaning of his life disappears, and he learns to live anew beyond
all meanings.
- All
dreams, hopes and memories dear to his heart, fear and even the Way are seen
as voidness in the moment when he perceives the
essence of things. When the disciple perceives the essence of things he
understands that he has only to perform letting go.
- In
disciple’s view the letting go is like a ceaseless leap down or falling
into a dark abyss. In Master`s view the letting go is like marvelous hovering
in the sky.
- The
paradox is that the disciple sets him himself free, as nobody can do it
instead of him. With letting he understands that there was nothing to let
go.
- The
importance of his personal ego disappears when the disciple lets himself
go. Having done it he laughs happily at himself; he laughs at something
that never existed. The letting go equalizes a disciple, a great Master
and the guardians, powerful forces of the universe. All of them are equal
before the Infinite Spirit, and the way to merge in it is the letting go.
- Disciple
who doesn’t want to perform the letting go can’t even dream of becoming a
Master and of hovering in the Infinity.
- The
letting go is like death. After the letting go the disciple disappears.
But something in him stays alive. This something is united with the
Spirit; in fact it’s the Spirit itself. He who could let himself go
understands it. He also understands that everything that was before even
his dreams about the Way and the Spirit was like a reverie, a dream that
he saw in his sleep. The Infinite Spirit comes only to those who
disappeared through the letting go and became the Infinite Spirit.
- If
the disciple has no detachment he may panic realizing the essence of
things. The letting go can make him insane. That’s why the Master properly
prepares the disciple for the letting go; he shows him the essence of
things again and again, tests disciple’s patience and will to be sure that
the disciple left all ways of this world and attained great detachment and
determination to achieve the Infinity. Then the letting go becomes
possible.
- The letting go can’t be “made”, as it
just happens. It can’t be worked off, as it just comes.
Chapter 66
A Tuft
of Grass
Relaxation
- Having
performed the letting go the disciple relaxes in the Infinity.
- Relaxation
in the Infinity is the only way to live and to smile at the world for him
who has let himself go. Being relaxed is to accept the whole world becoming
its part and to keep mind on your goal in the same time. It means that one
stops worrying as a human being and lives in the Spirit. Only having relaxed
one can understand the absolute acceptance of all and penetrate into the
mystery of the field of Infinite Spirit’s Game.
- To
relax is to stop rushing for success and to give the rest of one’s human
part to the Spirit. Relaxation is allowing oneself to in perfection right
now. The ancient Masters said that the bird of freedom can’t be caught in a
usual way, as it waits for you where you are now.
- The
disciple may still feel like an ordinary man even after having performed
the letting go but it has no importance now.
- Relaxation
is the Way of the best Masters. A neophyte thinks that relaxation is doing
nothing so he loses the Way and concentration of the Spirit. Only a Master
knows how to relax not losing the Way and concentration. A relaxed Master
is like a diamond wrapped into cotton wool.
- Having
relaxed the disciple becomes ready for the complete merging in the
Infinity. If his relaxation is not complete his merging will be not complete
too. To relax is to look at the world through the eyes of the Infinite Spirit.
Relaxing in the Infinity the disciple feels most satisfied with all he has.
- A
relaxed disciple has only the sense of the Infinite Spirit and sees other
senses as its Game. It’s the last dangerous point where the disciple can
come across one of the three obstacles. But even if he can’t defeat them
all he won’t remain a human being.
Chapter 67
The
Invisible Sword
The
Light of Clarity
- The
light of clarity is a true attainment of the disciple’s. It’s his reward
for his disciplined life filled with detachment and self-control.
- It’s
the subtle understanding that helps to see differences between the most
subtle dreams and the Infinite Spirit. The light of clarity eliminates the
sleep of mind.
- The
light of clarity is like a sharp blade cutting dreams and extracting
Spirit flashes from them. A saying runs as “when dreams attack the Master pulls
out his sword”.
- The
more experienced the Master is the more powerful and subtle is his
clarity. He stays relaxed staying in the light of clarity and dreams are
eliminated before having formed.
- An
experienced Master can quickly cut layers of dim solid dreams and extract
bright Spirit flashes from them. He can see subtle dreams disguised as the
Infinity and free himself from them by the power of his light of clarity.
- The
light of clarity helps to participate in everything touching nothing. Looking
at dreams through the light of clarity the Master extracts Spirit flashes
from them just as gold is extracted from gold-sand.
- When
the light of clarity touches dreams they can’t influence creatures anymore,
just as the sleep can’t influence the awakened.
- The
light of clarity changes dreams into the pure fields of the Infinity.
- Masters
make harmonious beautiful joyful fields from subtle dreams.
- Master’s
light of clarity transforms solid dreams into furious power fields for
wrathful Games; there play wrathful guardians, hard emanations of the
Infinity.
Hard emanations of the Infinity are uncompromising;
they play in their fields on all-or-none
principle. For an ordinary man being there is like being in hell. But the
Master can distract brightest Spirit flashes from them.
- The
most subtle dreams have the worlds of Endless; there are no emanations in these
worlds. These are the worlds of the absolute Emptiness. There are no sleep
of mind and no one who could sleep. These dreams are very attractive
because they are like the Infinity. If the disciple hasn’t enough light of
clarity he may take them for the Infinite Spirit.
- The Master improves the skill of
capturing and cutting the subtle dreams all his life.
- The light of clarity is attained through detachment
and self-remembrance. In order to attain something really valuable one
should ceaselessly stay in the light of clarity; the light of clarity is
the key to the Infinity.
- The light of clarity can be intentional or
spontaneous. The intentional light is inherent in disciples; spontaneous light
is inherent in Masters, sky inhabitants and sky walkers.
- To contemplate the natural is to be in
the light of clarity without making appraisals. The Master sees the world
through baby’s eyes and admires it as if he saw it for the first time.
- To be in the light of clarity is to be
free of what one knows.
- The light of clarity is very valuable so the
Master cherishes it through self-remembrance for days, months and years until
he learns about the natural.
Chapter 68
To
Free One’s Mind
How
“Not to Know”
- Dreaming
creatures are chained with remembering things that they know. There’s no
such power except for Spirit’s touch and Master`s training that could
dissuade them from knowing themselves as dreaming creatures.
- Attachment
to what you know makes to think ordinary; it causes delusion and blocks
ways to liberty.
- The
ordinary way to think causes the sleep of mind. When creatures look at the
Infinity through the eyes of the sleep of mind it hides itself.
- There’s
no Infinity in the sleep of mind and all choices of dreaming creatures are
predetermined by dreams; it means that there can be no choice for dreaming
creatures.
- That’s
why dreaming creatures are called the prisoners of the sleep of mind
without choice.
- The
man of the Way releases himself from what he knows.
- In
the sleep of mind any knowledge, even knowledge of the Way, becomes a
dream.
- Masters
tells disciples to become free from the past experience attained in the sleep
of mind including knowledge that caused their following the Way.
- The
disciple is confused at that time. It’s possible to get rid of the knowledge
of dreaming creatures, but how can one become free from something as
precious as the knowledge he attained on the Way of the Spirit? To become free of it means losing
everything: himself, the Way, the connection with the Spirit.
- Masters say that things the disciple
knows about the Way are not the true knowledge yet; he learned them in the
sleep of mind so he may lose them anyway. The true knowledge can’t be
lost; how can one lose the Infinity?
- The Master tells the disciple to free his
mind of illusions about the Way disguising as the knowledge.
- So the disciple tries to free himself from
any knowledge attained in the sleep. It’s impossible to perceive the core
of things or even cast a glance at the Infinity having not become free from
all that one learned in the sleep of mind.
- Freeing his mind from what he knows the
disciple keeps things that help him in his Way of liberty. He just changes
his attitude. He knows that it’s not the true knowledge but useful dreams sent
to point at it. He tries to pay his attention to the core not to the
shape.
- Looking at the core he discovers some
foundation that nobly shines; this foundation is the Spirit of the
Infinity.
- He realizes that the true value of dreams
is in their core.
- Learning the secret he focuses his attention
on the core of dreams; there he sees dreams as the shine of the Infinity,
and he admires this Game. So the taste of all dreams becomes the same;
it’s the taste of the incomprehensible Game of the Infinity.
- Now the disciple understands how to become
free from what he knows; he admires the infinite core of dreams and uses
their shape according to the circumstances.
- Changing his attitude he becomes free from
what he knows; he can see the Infinity even in the sleep of mind and in
dreaming creatures` goals.
- Now he can use any kind of dreams and
even respect them staying free. Masters call this knowledge “how not to
know”.
- Becoming
free from everything known in the world of dreams the disciple lives in ceaseless
Spirit flashes observing infinite greatness day and night. He sees it naturally.
Chapter 69
A Hollow
Bamboo
Free
of What You Know
- Staying
in the light of clarity helps the Master to be free of what he knows.
- To
be free of what you know is like to know “without knowing”, to think
“without thinking”, to make decisions and to act “doing nothing”.
- Living
creatures are chained by the sleep of mind because they know that they are
living creatures. They are chained by it. This knowledge comes from the
past. The memory of being chained makes to think of being a dreaming
creature. That’s why one can’t see his self as Infinity’s emanation.
- The
subtle core of the sleep of mind is in the past experience. One can become
free of it only if he uses the light of clarity.
- The
key to the absolute liberty is in elimination of the past experience and
in becoming free from it. Anything that dreaming creatures know is the sleep
of mind.
- The
disciple tries to become free from what he knows so that he could attain
liberty. Otherwise even the knowledge he learned from the Master becomes a
new illusion strengthening the sleep of mind.
- Master`s
words confuse the disciple if he hasn’t attained the light of clarity; he
listens to Master`s words as he used to listen and it strengthens his
sleep of mind instead of freeing from it. Generations of disciples tried
to solve this problem before attaining the light of clarity.
- When
the Master uses his knowledge he is free of it; when he speaks he is free from
words. The disciple has to attain freedom of what he knows. The Master
says, “If you depend on what you know you will keep on sleeping calling
your sleep of mind the Way to freedom”.
- How
does the Master become free of what he knows? He just remembers himself staying
in the light of clarity detached from any knowledge.
- The light of clarity fills Master’s
Spirit, saves him from past experience and makes him light, fluid,
spontaneous and unpredictable.
- The past experience decreases dreaming creature’s
possibilities to the minimum and imprisons it.
- Freedom from known things increases
Master`s possibilities so that they become as numerous as Infinity’s.
- The Infinite Spirit is free from any
knowledge that’s why it’s said that he plays not acts. He has nothing to
compare so every moment of his Game is perfect.
- Master`s possibilities are endless
because he’s free from memory of being a dreaming creature, a Master or
anybody else. He sees the world as an endless playfield of possibilities. That’s
why his Spirit is always free bright and
unprejudiced.
Chapter 70
Stages
of Liberty
- First
the disciple properly practices self-remembrance to keep the light of
clarity. His light of clarity is like an arrow flying to hit the mark, and
his knowledge is like dew drops gradually evaporating in the sun.
- Then
the light of clarity becomes permanent and spontaneous; attachment to
knowledge disappears just as circles on the water or echo in mountains.
- When
the light of clarity is deep the Master contemplates the natural; his
knowledge vanishes because no illusions nourish it. It’s said that the
Master remains free from what he knows, and his knowledge is like a thief trying
to steal from a poor man; the thief has no reason to stay any longer.
- Great
Masters, sky inhabitants, sky walkers and knowledge guardians see things that
they know as a Game of Infinity’s emanations, a decoration; that is the best
view. Their Games with knowledge are so incomprehensible delicate and
subtle that they can be recognized only by a Master.
Chapter 71
Spirit
Flashes
- A Spirit
flash is a special moment in which creature’s shine reaches its top and
flashes.
- Such
flashes instantly attract Infinity’s touch because the Infinity responds
to its kind. Spirit flashes attract the Infinity.
- Infinity’s
touch intensifies a flash, and dreaming creature’s shine greatly increases.
- It
may avalanche like forest fire bringing the man of the Way to
inexpressible.
- Small
transient flashes happen almost to everyone but only Masters can notice and
derive benefit from them.
- Common
creatures are too absorbed with their dreams to pay attention to it; the
Master consciously creates situations causing flashes. In the moment of
Spirit flash disciple’s mind is paused and the Infinity opens.
- Spirit
flashes come suddenly when the disciple experiences something unexpected,
something that shocks him; it may be a moment of fear or extreme danger, a
moment when he gets what he despaired to get, the first moment of awakening;
when he experiences extreme delight, joy, shame or any strong feeling that
intensifies Spirit’s shine.
- The
disciple feels like he flies on the wings of eternity, and the Infinity
knocks at the door of his heart.
- Experiencing
a flash the Master stretches it consciously; he stays detached and relaxed
practicing letting go. He lets this feeling catch him but he doesn’t lose
control. Experiencing flashes he remains natural self-sufficient and
self-remembering. The shine rapidly grows to the size of an infinite flash.
- In the moment of flash the Master merges
in it and performs complete letting go staying self-remembering as an
arrow.
Chapter 72
Accumulating
Spirit Flashes
- The
disciple tries to live with remembering the Infinity. He remembers the
Infinity and looks for Spirit flashes. He merges in flashes, keeps and
accumulates them. The more experienced the Master is the oftener and
longer such flashes are.
- It
finally occurs that Master’s life is a succession of long brightest
flashes reproducing themselves in waves just as forest fire or waves.
- From
that moment no efforts are required from the Master but his acceptance of
all and letting go.
- The
disciple lets himself go in a succession of flashes. Letting go is
impossible without continuous shine of Infinity’s flashes.
- The
sleep of mind needs a weighty argument to release disciple’s Spirit; this
argument is a succession of Spirit flashes.
- Accumulated
flashes become a succession which the Master sees as an infinite wall of
light or a huge luminous sphere that sends him continuous inspiration and descending
power.
Chapter 73
Spirit’s
Gift
Descending
Power
- Then
the wall falls and the disciple sees a dimensional world consisting of flashes
of Infinity’s light of clarity. This great dazzling ocean of light, this
blazing abyss shines like milliards of suns. It opens up before the disciple
and goes into him.
- An avalanche of flashes is an incredibly
splendid view; sky inhabitants and sky walkers warmly greet the disciple
when they see it.
- At
this stage the disciple simply shouldn’t resist the call of the Infinity;
he should let himself go and allow the avalanche of flashes to come into
him and to light his most solid energies.
- This
avalanche of flashes is descending power. Sometimes it comes to Masters as
fretty playful strong wave of bliss and
inspiration. Sometimes it comes as a refined delicate Spirit’s song full
of beauty and incomprehensible charm. It also can be splendid, infinite
and furious.
- He
who could summon and conquer it is a great Master.
- He
doesn’t need any severe discipline or restrictions as his human part of
the Way is over. His spirit is completely merged in the majestic power
descending day and night.
- When
the disciple senses descending power he dances with joy because he has finally
found the thing he sought for all his life.
- Descending
power is the faculty to see the Infinity. No dreams can resist descending
power and the Master who gave himself into its hands.
- Opening
to descending power the Master learns not to be defeated and gradually
conquers it.
- It can be conquered only when one presented
it his dreams and gave himself into its hands cherishing no hope, goals,
fear or benefit.
- The absolute sincere commitment attracts
and enchants descending power so it wants to serve the Master.
- Ceaseless descending power gradually
dissolves Master’s body and energy preparing him for the great transformation.
Chapter 74
Master`s
Great Decision
- Opening
himself to descending power the Master conquers it through presenting his
dreams. Then he finally wins its heart making the only possible decision;
he enters the great non-action.
- Years
of fight and training are needed to take the great decision of going into non-action.
- This
decision is the line dividing a disciple and a Master.
- Only
he who gave himself to descending power can make this decision.
- It’s
impossible to take this decision without having completed letting go because
this decision means to become emptiness, one with the Infinity
Chapter 75
Merging
in the Abyss
- Merging
in the Infinity happens when the disciple completes letting go and lives
relaxed in the natural.
- To
merge means to forget oneself in the Infinite Spirit. If the disciple overcame
the three obstacles and completed letting go he would merge in the
natural. That’s the Way of all Masters.
- Merging
in the natural eliminates the remains of disciple’s personality and
changes him into a Master united with the Infinity.
- There
are four stages of merging:
- At
the first stage the disciple is like an arrow flying straight to the
Infinite Spirit;
- At
the second stage the disciple can’t put what he knows into words; this is
the stage of “inexpressible”;
- At
the third stage everything tastes the same;
- At
the fourth stage disciple’s acceptance of all becomes absolute, and he enters
the gates of non-action.
Chapter 76
Flying
Arrow
Contemplating
the Natural
- Contemplating the natural is the sense of
being the infinity.
- To
listen to the voice of the Infinite Spirit and to contemplate the natural
is the same.
- When
the disciple attains absolute self-remembrance and completes letting go he
contemplates the natural.
- To
contemplate the natural all the time and in everything is Master`s golden rule.
Master’s Spirit is like a flying arrow.
- Contemplating
the natural differs from self-remembrance. When the disciple remembers
himself he remembers only his human part. With letting go he learns the
secret of the natural. Without letting go the natural can’t be perceived.
- In
the beginning all that the disciple can do about contemplating the natural
is self-remembrance. Then he lets himself go and opens to descending power
to merge in the Infinity. Merging in the Infinity he learns about his self.
Learning about his self the Master remembers the Infinity as everything
that ever existed; it’s said that he contemplates the natural.
- To
contemplate the natural is to see the Infinity as it is without judgments.
It’s like living in the center of the universe or sitting at the top of a
mountain where all can be seen from.
- Years
of training are needed to come into the natural and to hear Infinity`
serene song.
- Living
in the natural for years the disciple attains the sameness of taste and gains
the right to know all about his self.
- A true Master lives in the natural day by
day, year to year. He breathes and walks, sleeps and eats in it; he knows only
the natural, Infinity’s charming voice telling him great secrets.
- To live in the natural being self-sufficient
and spontaneous is Master`s only choice; that’s his way to live.
- Before the natural is found the disciple
wanders in darkness. He speculates as he senses something but it’s still
the sleep of mind.
- The Master tells him to be very careful
at that time. The reality is delusive; a play of shadows may be taken for
a great fire, and the rustle of grass may be taken for ocean’s wash.
- In Master`s way of living any word,
thought or action comes from the natural. A Master is elegant, clever and
spontaneous.
- What is the natural like? Masters say it’s
like pure cloudless sky. Though it’s just a metaphor. Others say it’s as firm
as a mountain and as splendid as sky inhabitants` king.
- The disciple cherishes it just as a
mother cherishes her only child. When it becomes strong the Master sets if
free so that it could act spontaneously.
- Merging
in the Infinity the Master tries to intensify the natural; he plays where
the disciple can’t yet be allowed. It’s called “inflaming the solid
dreams”.
Chapter 77
Horned
Hare’s Dream
Inexpressible
Understanding
- As
the Master perceives the core of things and the natural he becomes one
with the Infinite Spirit.
- Thus
he gains inexpressible understanding.
- It’s
deep and infinite in contrast to human ideas; if the Master is asked about
it he can’t keep from laughing and crying at the same time. He knows that the
things he understands can never be put into words.
- First
he tries to but then he understands that it’s hopeless, as inexpressible
can’t be put into words.
- When
the Master loses hope to express what he knows he becomes absolutely
relaxed and takes human language as a part of his Game.
- Sometimes
the Master just stops talking about the Infinite Spirit; sometimes he beautifully
speaks in human language or says strange insane things in human language
still.
- He
knows that nothing can be expressed no matter what he says.
- Some
Masters take words as talks of the insane; some think that words are songs
or poetry of dreams, and some speak in logic and clear language for the
sake of their disciples.
- This
logic way to talk is used to bring disciples to inexpressible.
Chapter 78
The
Country of the Immortal
The
Sameness of Taste
- Attaining
absolute integrity the Master realizes the sameness of taste.
- The
sameness of taste dissolves the barrier between inner and exterior; later
the Master realizes that such barrier never existed.
- The
Master knows that mountains, trees, sky, stars and clouds are in him; the
whole universe is his huge body filled with bliss.
- Attaining
the sameness of taste he stops seeing good and bad; he knows there never
was good and bad there were things he liked or hated. Joy and sorrow can’t
do him any harm because he doesn’t reject anything and doesn’t long for
anything.
- The
sameness of taste eliminates wrong and right so the Master knows that he
always acts right.
- As
there is no pure or impure the Master knows that his Spirit is always pure.
- The
sameness of taste equals the past and the future.
- Realizing
that there’s no such thing as time he stops. He sees time as ceaseless
movement of dreams, the flow of events, Infinity’s endless Game.
- Time
and space can’t control the Master attained the sameness of taste. He came
to the country of the immortal.
Chapter 79
Floating
with Clouds
The
Absolute Acceptance of all
- The
absolute acceptance of all comes as the disciple perceives the core of
things and gains inexpressible understanding. Then he’s ready to become a
real Master. The absolute acceptance of all is the only Way Masters live.
- The
absolute acceptance of all is impossible without great detachment. Only he
who completed letting go and merged in the natural can attain the absolute
acceptance of all. It’s rooted in great detachment. Great detachment
blossoms into the absolute acceptance of all.
- The
life of a Master attained the absolute acceptance of all may be
incomprehensible to others. Only the Master knows how much he had to pay
for such thing. It cost detachment from everything even from him himself.
- The
absolute acceptance of all means living in such unity with existence where
no life, death or ego can be just the existence.
- A
true Master always flows with the river, floats with clouds and flies with
the wind.
- Acceptance
of all comes when the disciple completes letting go and relaxed in the
Spirit. With letting go he absolutely merges in the Infinite Spirit, in
the Great Source. He can see that he doesn’t exist anymore. So there’s
nothing to reject. Thus acceptance of all comes.
- From
now on there is no choice only a song of the empty heart. The Master lives
with the empty heart following the voice of the Spirit.
Chapter 80
Living
on the Top
Satisfaction
- A
Master is always satisfied with everything.
- Being
unsatisfied is inherent in neophytes separated from the Spirit.
- Separated
from the Spirit the neophyte dreams of it and of happiness he’ll feel when
he’ll find it.
- These
dreams annoy the neophyte making him unsatisfied and infinitely sad empty
and depressed.
- He
doesn’t know about the pearl of the Infinite Spirit that shines in his
heart.
- If
he hears about it he smiles bitterly complaining about his destiny that keeps
him from finding this lightful pearl.
- What
hides the pearl of the Spirit? Neophyte’s complains and expectations. The disciple
can see the light when he stops complaining and waiting.
- The
Master is naturally satisfied; he is filled with love and admiration for
the Infinite Spirit.
- The
Master lives in the ecstasy of gratitude to the Spirit. He kisses earth,
smiles to the stones and bows to the trees in joy.
- Every word, gesture and thought of Master`s
are a song of delight and reverence for the Superior.
- The Master doesn’t speak he sings songs
of love for the Infinite Spirit though others may think that it’s just
words.
- Master`s movements are dances of
gratitude to the Infinite Spirit though others may not see anything
special about it.
- The
Master sees only a ceaseless Game of the Infinite Spirit.
- Master’s life is a dance, a song, a
celebration, a game of chance.
- The Master is satisfied because he
doesn’t have to seek anything or long for anything.
- Master`s satisfaction has nothing to do
with idleness, apathy, conceit or weakness. His satisfaction moves
mountains, clears the sky from the clouds and creates universes.
- Master`s satisfaction is the constant
search for how not to search, yearning for how not to yearn.
- The Master joyfully sings about being one
with the existence without choice and a person who makes it.
Chapter 81
Entering
the Gates of Non-action
- Entering
the gates of non-action the Master finds himself in the Game area of the Infinite
Spirit. It’s hard to notice how it happens; all just suddenly changes for
good.
- In
the Game area the Master understands that his Way was a perfect Game of
the Infinity. Even a moment of non-action helps the disciple to see that
there never was a disciple, a Master or companions. It was an
incomprehensible Game of the Spirit.
- Then
he kneels and bows to the Spirit crying and laughing at the same time, he
is filled with delight and reverence to the Infinite Spirit, its Games and
mysteries.
- The
disciple disappears, and a Master, he who knows, comes into the world.
- The
disciple was blind in his remembering, and he couldn’t see. How can one
know if he doesn’t see? Becoming a Master he realizes that he has always
been with the Infinite Spirit. It changes all.
- He
rises to his feet and wipes his tears; he is a new creature now, a Master.
He looks around himself in amazement just as a child that looks at the paintings
on the walls in the temple of the universe.
- Seeing
the universe as Infinity’s sacred temple is a sign of attaining the purity
of vision. It means that the Master won’t leave the field of Spirit’s
Game.
- What’s
left for the Master? To play in the infinite dancing, flying with the
wind, flowing with rivers and floating with clouds.
Chapter 82
Eagle’s
Hover
Non-action
- A
true Master never does anything as he lives in the field of the Game.
- To
others he may seem doing something, but he doesn’t do. Things happen near
him. The Master answers through non-action and allows things to happen but
he doesn’t interfere in them.
- The
Master lives in non-action as in the center of the universe. Non-action is
the gates of the Infinite Spirit. He derives strength for his dances from
non-action.
- A
true Master is like a cloud that doesn’t know where it will be tomorrow.
He’s like a dry leaf having no idea of where the wind will blow from. Non-action
is the core of Master’s actions.
- The
disciple can become a Master and approach to the Spirit only if he is in non-action.
The Way can’t be completed without attaining non-action. Infinity’s
mysteries can be perceived only in non-action.
- Non-action
is “the blue pearls”, a great secret of Masters. Non-action is a secret of
the heart, the blood of the Way. How can the gates of non-action be
opened? With detachment, letting go and attaining of acceptance of all.
- Giving
all ways of this world up the disciple attains detachment. With infinite
detachment he lets himself go. Then he realizes that there was nothing to
let go. This way the absolute acceptance of all is attained.
- Acceptance
of all helps the Master to see the infinite perfection of the world. When
he sees it things stop being important. When everything is not important
the sense of all actions becomes the same.
- The
Master realizes that he doesn’t have to do anything. Dreams, hopes and
fear leave him and the Master becomes completely relaxed.
- He
understands that he has already done everything. All was made perfect
before he was born. He doesn’t need to do anything.
- It
makes him infinitely happy. He sings of joy and this song accompanies him
as a key to gates of non-action.
- So the Master understands that his song
is the best thing he can do in this world. This is the song of gratitude
to the Infinite Spirit and to the Master who told him the secret of non-action.
- The secret of not-action is the essence
and the key to all things. Now the Master can do anything because there is
nothing to do.
Chapter 83
Flowing
with the River
- The
absolute acceptance of all makes Master’s Spirit incredibly flexible and fluid.
- Master’s
flexibility comes from the voidness of his
heart. Being flexible he can make the Way of any situation.
- A
Master is not involved with things; they help him to remember the Infinity
intensifying his light of clarity.
- Becoming
extremely flexible he makes the great decision and begins playing in
Infinity’s field. He doesn’t act as a human being because he plays.
- Playing
in any situation is the top of flexibility. The Master can make an infinite
Game of any situation using his detachment and acceptance of all. Teaching
others he plays to attract Spirit flashes and descending power for
disciple’s good.
- Flexibility
is the best adroitness without attachment.
- Flexibility
is Master’s faculty to accept all and not to lose him himself.
- Where
does Master’s flexibility come from? It comes from remembering the
Infinity, being in the natural and the sameness of taste.
- Being
in the natural he integrates his infinite view into situations in dreaming
creatures` world. Then a spontaneous reaction comes. This reaction is
Master’s flexibility.
- The Infinity can take any shape and come
into anything. The natural meets everything from a speck to a universe.
- A Master remembering the Infinity is
perfectly flexible and is one with the world.
- A
flexible Master can derive a lot of energy from Spirit flashes occurring
in daily life.
- The whole world becomes a field of
Infinity’s Game as it has always been.
- The disciple becomes flexible after long
years of training, detachment and acceptance of all.
- He
has to go through unthinkable trials and to do tasks requiring extreme
detachment, manliness and commitment to become enough flexible. His
remembering, acceptance of all and detachment meet solid dreams and the
sleep of mind again and again so that he could attain flexibility, the real
Spirit of Masters.
- Only having become infinitely flexible he
can be closer to the gates of non-action, to make the great decision and
to enter the field of Infinity’s Games.
- Only incredible flexibility combined with
detachment and acceptance of all helps the Master to extract Spirit
flashes from any situation even from the situations happening in the
worlds of solid dreams.
- Such flexibility helps the Master to
inflame solid dreams when he touches them and prevents from falling into
the sleep of mind.
- He doesn’t live in the world of dreams
because he lives in Infinity’s field of the Game.
- Nothing can make him to lose his
spontaneity and detachment if he has perfect flexibility.
- When the Master attains true flexibility he
can play with any thing or situation.
Chapter 84
The
Field of Infinity’s Games
- To
become free is to leave the world of the sleep of mind and to enter the
field of Infinity’s Game.
- A
field of the Game is a sacred area beyond the gates of non-action. Masters
say that the field of the Game is not somewhere outside and there is no
use of seeking it there; it can be found with changing of view and
attaining of the sameness of taste. When Masters talk about another world
they mean changing of views and energy.
- They
live only in fields of Infinity’s Games in contrast to ordinary people and
disciples. These are their own Games as they are one with the Infinity.
- Entering
a field of the Game the Master merges his mind in the Infinity. Then he let
his energies play, blossom and manifest.
- His
pure mind plays creating sacred universes, splendid magic worlds free from
dreams. These universes are filled with the same taste, the taste of the
Infinity.
- The
Master becomes a guardian of his universes. In this field all actions and
events are pure, perfect, harmonious and spontaneous because they come
from the part of the Infinity that is free from the sleep of mind and
misting power.
- Dreaming
creatures may think that the Master is an ordinary man. That’s not true.
Master’s world is far from theirs though it has them all. No one can enter
the field of Master’s Game without his invitation because his field is a
sacred universe of his free mind.
- The
Master shows the disciple the Way to the field of the Game. First the
disciple thinks that it’s a world of dreaming creatures. Only when he goes
trough many trials and enters the gates of non-action
he can see the field of the Game where the Master lives.
- Master’s
purpose is to help the disciple to enter the field of the Game so that the
disciple could create a sacred universe and start his own Game.
Chapter 85
The
Mystery of Master’s Way
- Ancient
Masters insisted on keeping the Way in secret. If you speak of it too much
you may lose it.
- The
Master keeps his Way in secret as a treasure; that’s not like he hides
something it’s just a feature of the Infinity, and nothing can be done
about it.
- To
keep the secret of the Way doesn’t mean to hide it. The Master is always light
and opened for all creatures.
- When
the Master wants to show the Way to his disciple he says that the Infinity
is a great mystery, and disciple’s questions can’t be answered. Questions come
from the past experience, from the sleep of mind.
Chapter 86
The
Meaning of Master’s Actions
- Each
Master’s action has few meanings. The first is the ordinary exterior
meaning. It’s the performance the Master gives to dreaming creatures. It’s
the mask he wears to keep secrets and harmony in the world of dreams.
- Master’s
external actions look like actions of dreaming creatures, and the Master
laughs at him himself when he performs such action. He takes his human
part in humour as a Game of the Infinity in the
sleep of creatures` minds.
- The
second is the interior hidden meaning. It embodies wisdom of the man of the
Way.
- Each
Master`s action is a step on the Way, an exercise of the method; it’s
something that he infinitely respects.
- Each
Master`s action is a means of showing the Way to liberty.
- Only
his disciples and companions know about this meaning. Those who don’t
follow the Way can’t see it; it’s necessary to avoid obstacles and
disharmony.
- The
third meaning is secret. The secret meaning is a marvelous Game, an
incomprehensible dance. It’s Master’s Game in the field of non-action.
- The
Master knows that all his action is an incomprehensible Game of the
Spirit. He acts in the pure vision as the emanation of the Infinity.
- His
spontaneous actions come from understanding of his infinite greatness. Such
actions are inherent in sky inhabitants, sky walkers and Masters.
- Only the Master knows this meaning.
Sometimes he opens it to his close disciples and companions.
- The Master protects this infinite meaning
even living amidst men of the Way, as he knows that this meaning is
inexpressible. He keeps it as a treasure in his heart.
Chapter 87
Knowing One’s Self
- The
Master learns about his self through non-action.
- He
learns bout his self when the Infinite Spirit tells
him the last secret. The Master learns that he always was the Infinite
Spirit. Then all his illusions leave him and the sleep of his mind ends.
- Knowing
his self he disappears as a person but he still lives. Now his life is
filled with incomprehensible greatness.
- Knowing
himself as the Infinity he hears his self in every sound, from the rustle
of the grass to thunder; he beats in every heart and runs trough the veins of all creatures in the universe; he
flows with all rivers; in the sky abyss he twinkles with all stars; he is
in the odour of all flowers. He drinks water
with every leaf, blows in the wind and flows in every wave.
- He
lights up stars and moves galaxies. There is only him in everything.
- Knowing
one’s self flashes as lighting, comes down as an avalanche, as the forest
fire; it embraces myriads of worlds of dreams merging the interior and the
exterior, the future and the past.
- This
knowledge is so great and incomprehensible that if the Master were an
ordinary creature he would be crushed and stunned. Only his mastery gained
through self-restraint, will and detachment helps him to become the
Infinity and to keep his human part.
Chapter 88
Sky
Inhabitants` Greatness
- The
Master dedicates his life to remembering the natural and knowing his self.
- Knowing
his self for a long time he attains greatness that comes from the Infinity.
It’s called sky inhabitants` greatness.
- Sky
inhabitants are merged in Infinity’s greatness and don’t tell themselves
from the Infinity.
- Master
who became perfect in knowing his self attains such greatness.
- If
the disciple is in tune with Master’s Spirit the greatness of the Master will
be transferred to him just as the fire is passed from one candle to
another.
- Disciple’s
Spirit imbibes Infinity’s greatness through the Master just as if the
Master was a sky inhabitant.
- Imbibing
Infinity’s greatness he changes his attitude and eliminates the rest of
the sleep of mind. He accumulates greatness for years for that one day he
could know his self.
- Knowing
one’s self is impossible without the infinite greatness; even if the
disciple achieved the succession of Spirit flashes and gave himself to descending
power there would always be a distance between him and the Infinity. To
know one’s self is to cover this distance.
- The
change of self-appraisal and getting the new sense of his self dissipate strongest
dreams and make disciple’s spirit light, flexible, detached and joyous.
- To attain sky inhabitants` greatness
means attaining liberty and knowing one’s self as the Infinity.
- Sky inhabitants` greatness is the sense
of being the Infinity.
- The disciple tunes in on this greatness
again and again until it forces out his old sense of himself and the habit
of feeling small and insignificant and makes him to admit that he always
was a splendid Infinity `s emanation.
- Infinity’s greatness is so
incomprehensibly deep that even sky inhabitants` greatness seems nothing
in comparison with it.
- The Master knows that sky inhabitants` greatness
comes from the Infinity. Sky inhabitants are infinitely splendid because
of being one with it. So to contemplate the natural and to tune in on sky
inhabitants` greatness is one.
- At first this greatness is transient
faint taste the disciple senses in communication with the Master or in the
practice of self-remembrance.
- It’s the sense of reverence for Infinity’s
mystery, admiration for Master’s Spirit, and utmost delight of someone touched
by Infinity’s power and greatness. Then this feeling penetrates into the disciple
and becomes his constant sense of himself.
- The disciple cherishes it, and it grows
into Infinity’s greatness that washes away his illusions and his sleep of
mind like a waterfall.
- Attaining the infinite greatness the
Master knows his self as the Infinity. Then sky inhabitants, knowledge guardians
and sky walkers greet him at the entrance to the field of Infinity’s
Games.
Chapter 89
Sky
Dances
Master’s
Game
- A
true Master doesn’t live like other people, even if it seems that he walks
in crowds or is busy doing something like others. He just plays.
- When
the disciple completed letting go and merged in the Infinity he becomes a
Master, and his life of an ordinary man ends in transformation into a
Game.
- The
Game is the art of acceptance of all; it’s rooted in acceptance of all.
Master’s Game springs from acceptance of all. Deep
and flexible acceptance of naturally becomes Master’s only way to live right. This
life is a Game of the Infinite Spirit. Acceptance of all is like cloudless sky
or a peaceful ocean. It shines brightly just as a candle in calm.
- Being
one with the Infinity the Master lives in the dimension of the Game. The
Game is the Way, the meaning and the goal. There is only Voidness beyond the Game. Any doing, word or thought
of the Master`s has no human meaning; it’s his incomprehensible Game, this
meaning is incredibly deep. In the same time, all his actions are Voidness.
- Master’s
skill consists in his faculty to keep the Game going in any situation as
if it was something human.
The Master plays because nothing has meaning to him
since he became a Master. Thought nothing has meaning the Game goes on, and any
detail or event is equally important. What a mystery it is – to love, to seek,
to laugh and to cry knowing that everything including you is Voidness!
- The
Game is a song of his heart, a dance of his Spirit in the great universe.
Being nobody the Master plays and responds to
myriads of things. He moves through this life like a dry leaf singing like a
hollow bamboo; his voice is like an echo; his words are like child’s talk.
- Master’s
answers are always spontaneous and unpredictable. They come from the Great
Source, and the source can’t be defined or predicted.
Chapter 90
The
Invincible Warrior
The
Great Skill of the Master
Burning
and Melting of Dreams
- Master’s
soul can’t be obscured even in a smallest degree when the Master comes
into contact with solid dreams.
- Thanks
to his spirit’s clarity he understands that the darkness in the soul is
just a solid dream produced by special solid emanations of the Infinity, and
the essence of any dream is Spirit’s light of clarity. The Master knows that
he can dissipate such dreams if he uses more clarity. Where do Masters derive
strength for their light of clarity from? From self-remembrance and
contemplation of the natural.
- Masters
know that the most solid dreams have the deepest light of Spirit’s
clarity. If they’re dissipated through contemplation of the natural they
disclose their true nature and give a Spirit flash. Such dissipation is
thousand times more valuable than a usual one.
- Masters`
skill consists in coming into the most solid dreams which others see as very
deep darkness of soul. Masters come into such dreams and dissipate them
with the power of their clarity.
5.Master who can do it sees the
darkness of souls as more solid shine which has enormous energy.
He uses solid dreams for extracting strongest
Spirit flashes.
- Those
who can use the darkness of soul and burn solid dreams extracting energy
from them are the best Masters.
- To
play with solid dreams extracting Spirit flashes from them is the art of
Masters. Only they who are really detached, who realized the essence of
things and constantly live in the field of Spirit’s pure vision can master
it.
- For
the disciple entering into this area is the same that to fall asleep and to
lose the Way; that’s why beginners are forbidden to travel there.
- A
skilled Master knows the principle of using hard energies of solid dreams without
losing the light of clarity.
- He carefully enters into dark layers with
remembrance of the Infinity, great detachment and acceptance of all. He
must be invulnerable and extremely detached to go through solid dreams.
- He enters there contemplating the natural
and staying connected with the Infinity. He knows that if he loses it for
a moment he’ll be lost in the labyrinths of darkness and he’ll stay there
forever without light of clarity and connection with the Infinity.
- He
goes through layers of solid dreams easily, gracefully and attentively; he
keeps remembering the Infinity as an arrow.
- His life full of constant training hardened
his spirit so he can keep remembering like an arrow even in the hardest
layers of darkness.
- When this remembering touches solid
dreams the Master sees the dreams though the eyes of acceptance of all. Then
everything tastes the same.
- Master’s acceptance of all and his light
of clarity do the impossible, and Master’s Spirit becomes invisible to
solid dreams.
What means to become invisible to solid dreams?
That means to become invisible to Spirit protégés that create
these dreams.
- Being
invisible he easily slips into the centre of solid dreams staying
extremely detached.
- In the centre of solid dreams he finds
the purest luminescence that has immense power.
- He sees that this luminescence is the
Infinity itself. He realizes that the darkness of soul or the hard energy
of solid dreams have the shine which is as strong as the shine of sky
inhabitants and sky walkers. It should be just recognized and extracted
from the core of solid dreams.
- Such realization and remembering as an
arrow lights up the core of solid dreams and makes them shine with a
special light of clarity which doesn’t look like human light of clarity.
- The Master mixes his light of clarity and
this inhuman light. In this moment he experiences ecstasy and bliss which
can’t be described.
- This ecstasy mixed with Master’s light of
clarity gives a very strong Spirit flash that lightens up huge areas of dark
solid dreams.
For the Master these lightened areas of hard
energies become areas of light.
- With
the power of light of clarity the Master creates force field of hard
energies` Game. Spirit protégés of these areas live on the
principle “it's hit-or-miss” and don’t like compromises. They can be
pacified only by Master’s heroic mood and his uncompromising remembering
the Infinity which is like a flying arrow.
- It’s said that Master’s presence makes
dreams and the protégés recall what they really are –
Infinity’s emanations.
- It pacifies the wrath of solid dreams and
hard energies radiated by them. It makes them to bow to the Master and to admit
him as a manifestation of the Infinity.
- Then dark areas of solid dreams are
changed into the pure fields of Infinity’s Game, and the Master becomes a
protégé - a sky inhabitant in this field, Infinity’s bearer.
The Master subdues Spirit protégés with greatness and remembering
the Infinity, and they become his faithful assistants accompanying him in
Games and guarding entrances to the pure fields.
So poison becomes nectar.
- Masters
call this art “burning the darkness” or “furious Games with solid dreams”
- Such Master can change his weaknesses
into strength transforming dark areas into Infinity’s light of clarity. It’s
the light of greatness and power inherent in sky inhabitants.
Chapter 91
Master’s Will
- The
Infinity endued the guardians and Spirit protégés with
immense power so that they could control other creatures in the sleep of
mind.
- But
even the guardians and the protégés deeply respect the light
of clarity and strong will of a man of the Way, a Master whose Spirit is
free of dreams.
- The
guardians and Spirit protégés can control dreaming creatures
because the latter don’t understand their own greatness.
- If
a man of the Way wants to change anything he has to convince the
protectors and Spirit protégés in the importance of his
decisions. What kind of decisions can delight the protectors? Only
Infinity `s decisions coming from the world of the absolute freedom.
- An
ordinary man would never convince the guardians in anything if he did no
great things; his ideas are too small and insignificant because they come
from dreams. And the guardians are not interested in the illusions of a dreaming
creature.
- The
guardians can be convinced only by something superior, something they
worship as their hearts; it’s the Infinite Spirit and his will.
- Great
Masters who perceived the Infinity can win guardians` respect with their greatness
and embody their will with guardians` support.
- It’s
possible because Master’s Spirit is immeasurably deep, and his will and shine
are stronger than dreaming guardians` spirit; it charms and delights the
guardians.
- A
splendid Master can subdue and pacify dreaming Spirit
protégés; he invokes admiration of theirs and helps them to
start the Ways to liberty.
- If protégés are furious and
inclined to disturbing others he stuns them with continuous Spirit
flashes. Then he makes furious protégés swear that they will
begin the Way. So they admit Master`s greatness and strength and become
his faithful companions, loyal assistants and guardians of his Game fields.
Chapter 92
Master’s
Freedom of Action
- The
Master knows that his thoughts and actions are a Game of the great wind. So
he can interfere with great wind’s Games and change them the way he needs
using as much will as he can.
- The
Infinite Spirit gave him this right when it touched him and changed him
into a Master.
- This
right of interference is a part of great wind’s Game.
- A
true Master uses it very carefully as he knows that all actions are
approved by the Infinite Spirit.
- The
paradox is that the Master attained will and united with the Infinity can
approve things himself, and this is incomprehensible.
- Master’s
approval is passed on to the Spirit and becomes Infinite Spirit’s approval,
and Spirit’s approval is doubtless.
- Some
ancient Masters used to say that the Infinite Spirit likes serving good
Masters, and it is as faithful as a Master.
- Things
happen this way because Master’s purity, detachment, love for freedom and
commitment attract endless love and perfection of the Infinite Spirit.
- The
Infinite Spirit is enchanted with Master’s commitment and purity, and it
may descend to him as a friend, a servant, a rival, a lover or anybody
else. These Games are incomprehensible.
- It has nothing in common with
relationships between human beings. It’s incomprehensible insane Games of
the Infinite Spirit which are produced by the great wind.
Chapter 93
Masters`
Secret: the Great Transformation
- The
great transformation is a secret goal of all Masters. Master’s human Way
and his life full of self-discipline and self-restrictions results in it.
The great transformation is a real beginning of sky walker’s Way.
- The
mystery of the great transformation is a treasure of Masters` heart sealed
by magic of knowledge keepers. The Infinite Spirit revealed it to people
through sky travelers, creatures of light.
- The
great transformation is the culmination of Master’s merging in the
Infinity when even his body of flesh and blood completely disappears in the
iridescent light.
- The
human part of the Way ends with the great transformation, and the Master
travels in the Infinity as an incomprehensible creature of light, a sky
walker.
- He
who accomplished the great transformation is the Master of Masters
penetrated into the infinite depth of the Way. He deserves endless
admiration and respect of men and of sky inhabitants.
- Masters
accomplish the great transformation in the end of life when the time to
leave this world comes. Only a few realize this stage staying in this
world.
- Every
Master knows about the signs showing if he could end the Way in a flash of
the great transformation and become a sky inhabitant.
Chapter 94
Eternity’s
Dreams
The
Signs of the Great Transformation
- The
Infinite Spirit gives three signs pointing at Master`s readiness for the
great transformation.
- The
first sign, “the blue pearls of Masters”, is inner. It shows up when contemplating
Master experiences great azure space between his eyes and in his heart.
- The
second sign, “the golden threads”, is external. It shows up when the
Master experiences the world as a golden space consisting
of luminous threads which come from his head.
- The
third sign, the blazing abyss, is intermediate. It emanates as a golden
disk sparkling with colors of dawn. Seeing the disk for long time opens
the infinite blazing abyss that is brighter than millions of suns; it
takes the Master with his body.
Chapter 95
Sky
Walker’s Song
- As
soon as the Master gets the signs of the Infinity he ends the human Way
and disappears from the world in a flash of light leaving no body of flesh
and blood.
- The
Masters of highest abilities leave the world of dreams to transform their
mortal bodies into immortal bodies consisting of light.
The best of them do it
during earth lifetime; the Masters of the middle kind do it in the end of their
lives.
Others go traveling in
pure fields of Infinity’s Games to end their dance of freedom amidst sky
inhabitants.
Third become immortal
and stay to live on earth.
Some travel among subtle dreams watching and extracting
Spirit flashes from them until a succession of flashes eliminates remaining
dreams, and they merge in the light of the Infinity.
- The
Master attains absolute freedom from dreams and becomes a perfect creature,
an immortal sky walker.
- Becoming
a sky walker he hovers in pure fields of Infinity’s Games not touched by
the world of dreams.
- Just
as a sky walker he would radiate magic emanations and send them play in
innumerable worlds to dissipate dreams and waken creatures from the sleep
of mind.
- Becoming
the Infinity he would create new universes to begin a new Game of the
Infinity. And sometimes his lucky disciples would hear a mysterious charming
song of his heart:
Here is the Way
to fly
with the wind;
To become
a
drop of dew
in quiet;
To walk
along
the rainbow
floating with clouds
To become
just a flash
in the
night sky,
And just as star mist
eternally hover
in the abyss
of the Universe…
Spontaneously written down in symbolic language
of tantric songs by a man of the Way, the Master named Sky Inhabitant, Guardian
of the Universe (Vishnu Dev) for the good of living creatures of the human
world following the Way of freedom. December, 2004.
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