Mind

Your mind is a bulldozer making the roads for you. Your going makes the road. Use your imagination.

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9/6/1991

Your worth* on earth is self-transformation. Each day you are new.

 

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*Could be 'work'

Who am I?

You are a prisoner of your perceptions. 

Who am I? 

A perception. 

So, for a second, shift the perception.

Becoming young does not mean becoming like yesterday. It may be the skin of a rhino! Be as you want to be. 

11/6/1991

Circle of Pietro Longhi / Public domain

 

So Said Surya

Two thoughts from Surya: 

Every principle is violent
First principle is to be hundreds of bodies

In psychiatry, there is a term 'persona'. As T S Eliot put it, all the time you 'prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet'. We play all sorts of roles in a single day.

However, if we lack flexibility in shifting from role to role, there can be issues. A policeman who continues to be a policeman at home can be quite upsetting. A husband-wife relationship can stagnate if the partners do not 'play' different roles to each other. Parents often keep on playing parent even when the child is fully adult.

Surya spoke of practicing being different 'selves'. As Shakespeare wrote:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts

Surya also mentioned that Ramakrishna used the concept of Abhinaya.

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Letters from Surya - 28.4.88

THE PILOT’S POCKET BOOK - G

Remember that once you have become aware of the ground control the rules are as before:
1. Be always in contact with ground control.

2. Know the signs of the make and break of this contact.

3. If you cannot do some work without losing this contact, then remember that maintaining the contact is the first priority.

4. If this is done your so-called other work gets done in the best possible manner to the satisfaction of the ground control, though not necessarily to the satisfaction of the enemy forging your signature. You know the sign.

5. The ground control has sent you as an apprentice pilot and everything is given exactly as is needed for your apprenticeship. Your wages is joy in the journey. If you are receiving other wages then you are no longer in the pilot’s seat – the enemy is.

6. Your job is to learn to report accurately all that comes to your awareness without comment. If you garble your report with a view to particular result then it is the passenger who has briefed you.

7. Remember that ground control needs your reports and its work.

8. Your job is to stay in your seat at the control panel and to enjoy yourself. 

THE PILOT’S POCKET BOOK - F

Remember for Maintenance:

1. Know by direct awareness the parts and functions of your craft and all that concerns it and comes to it.

2. Isolate a disturbance and disturbed part and not allow it to spread.

3. If disturbance is shown by dysfunction – the awareness of pain, discomfort, irritability, depression, fault finding. For the true freedom is to experience and express peace, joy, love and oneness.

4. As soon as disturbance comes to awareness.

1. Direct the zone.

2. Establish peace and joy in all the possible areas.

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3. Direct this influence on the zone concerned.

4. Remember that the part is disturbed because it has lost touch with ground control – Re-establish or create it.

THE PILOT’S POCKET BOOK - E

(1) Work to be done at each point of time and place: your craft is equipped to do what is needed, nothing for you to do except keep it steady – It is the enemy who says `I work’ and when he means by work he is talking about something somewhere, sometime and never about this concrete moment of time and place. That is how he steals the fuel.

E. The Enemy’s Chief Weapon is Forgery

The Enemy Signs Himself `I’ as surely as you sign yourself `I’.

Signs of Forgery
The enemy I’s signature tune is `I want’ but never `I want to learn’.

1. Wants this or that, this route or that port irrespective of the condition of the craft or his capacity for control over it or desire to learn the control.

2. He pretends to be doing everything in the interests of the craft – but his job is something else, to plunder and pilfer the craft and the fuel and the ports of visit.

3. He himself does not know the controls but uses you to gain his object – by forging your signature.

4. Naturally the craft bucks, vibrates, shakes and trembles just as surely as a sensitive horse with a strange and cruel usurper in saddle.

The Pilot’s `I’

1. experiences joy in being the controls

2. experiences joy in the journey itself and not the ports of call.

3. That experiencing and training is the first mission.

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THE PILOT’S POCKET BOOK - H

Your tenure of duty. You as long as you are. You are stuck with your craft, continue to learn about the craft as long as it can stand your handling and both at the will of ground control whichever is earlier.

Remember you are the pilot of a spacecraft in a fully paid for equipped journey for just filling in the cockpit and for which the wages is given – and if you receive any other payment it is because you are not You but the very DEVIL.

DISEASE:-

You make permanent structures and then go on attributing age, history to illusory permanent structures. Break picture formations. Disease is in the mind. No mind no disease.

What are you perceiving? Where is objective perception? If 6 people see the same as you do it is scientific?

Note: I've edited this piece a bit because the typist seems to have misread things.

THE PILOT’S POCKET BOOK - D (III) Remember:

1. At once get back to the control room

2. A quiet joy in all conditions and at all times is the sign that you are in contact with control room and ground control.

3. All disquiet is sign that you have moved yourself or got pushed out from the control room.

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THE PILOT’S POCKET BOOK - D (II) Remember:

1. You are away from the control room.
2. You are lured by the port of call or bribed by curiosity to wander off from the control room.
3. You have therefore moved away from the overall protection and guidance of ground control when anything untoward happens.

THE PILOT’S POCKET BOOK - D (I) Remember:

Your craft is valuable and many hostile agents seek its possession. By every possible trick and weapon.

The signs of presence of the enemy

1. Anger.
2. Depression.
3. Uncontrolled passion.
4. General misery.
5. Elation at the misfortune of other pilots.
6. All signs of hate and possessive greed.
7. Grumbling and thanklessness.
8. Counting the other's badness and faults in people and situations.
9. Observing the Devil in others' craft and loudly warning the other pilots when any of these signs are present

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10. That the Devil is in the cockpit.
11. Wanting – feeling lack of something or other for instance lack of fuel. You lack nothing it is the craft that needs – And its needs are met if you are in the control room. It is the Devil that feels the need for fuel.
12. Concern with the results. The benefits of the journey and grumbling about the journey itself.