The Perfect Master, Vol 2
Discourses
Table of Contents
Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time. A cow gave unparalleled milk—but kicked over every pail. Once upon a time: the cow is the mind—producing great thoughts but kicking them over with doubt. The master kicks over the pail to show you the habit. Don't kick over your own insights—let them fill you.
There is no Self, no Other
There is no Self, no Other. 'What's the difference between a master and a psychotherapist?' The master is not—the therapist is. The master is a hollow bamboo. There is no self, no other: the master has dissolved the ego. The therapist works with the ego; the master destroys it. The master is a passage for the divine.
Out of Context
Out of Context. A man heard how to unmask a fraud by serving him—but when he did the same, the fraud gained followers. Out of context: techniques work only in context. What works for one doesn't work for another. Don't copy—understand. The same action in different contexts produces opposite results.
How Can You Deceive?
How Can You Deceive? 'Why do I feel close and distant at the same time?' Your being is close, your mind is distant. How can you deceive: you can't deceive the master—your being reveals you. The more mind, the more distant. The more being, the closer. You're close when you forget the mind.
Love Needs No Time
Love Needs No Time. The peasant on the train: 'The sun has risen and set seven times—why haven't we arrived?' Love needs no time: the peasant measured by donkey time, not train time. The mind measures by its own speed. Love is instantaneous—no time needed. Don't measure the path by old standards.
Be Rejoiced in Me
Be Rejoiced in Me. 'What is it to be master of one's sexual energy?' Don't divide yourself—how can there be a master and a slave? Be rejoiced in me: sexual energy is not to be mastered but transformed. Don't fight it—understand it. Division creates civil war. The energy is one—let it flow upward.
The Lion's Roar
The Lion's Roar. Haidar Ali studied Sufi exercises, was taken to the emperor: 'Bring him back in a year.' The father sent him to more sages. The emperor again: 'Not ready.' The lion's roar: the true master doesn't want technique—he wants being. Exercises without being are empty. The lion's roar is authenticity.
The Bell Tolls for Thee
The Bell Tolls for Thee. 'Explain the development of being.' Being never develops—being simply IS. The bell tolls for thee: there is no evolution of being—only recognition. You're already there. What develops is the recognition, not the reality. Stop becoming and start being.
A Stranger to Yourself
A Stranger to Yourself. Ibrahim ben Adam—two dervishes asked how long he'd been on the path. 'Two years.' One had thirty years with no miracles. 'How?' A stranger to yourself: miracles are not the path. The real miracle is being a stranger to your own ego. Ibrahim didn't seek powers—he sought being.
Exactly in the Middle
Exactly in the Middle. 'It seems out of our hands—we have no choice to surrender or to be in the ego.' That's the trick! Exactly in the middle: seeing that nothing is in your hands IS surrender. Surrender is not an act—it's a seeing. When you see you can't do it, it happens. The alchemy is understanding that you're not the doer.