'O Master, Mad Master, what does it mean to become a master?
To become what you cannot know.
But not to know who I am?
No! You shall never know who you are, because there is no you. It is time you learn what Being is. There is no Being. There is only action. You are no more than what is now in action.
But then is this action not my Being?
No, dear child, for this acting is what has consumed your Being. Let me quote from one of my own teachers, Lord Conrad:
“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he drowns . . . No! I tell you! The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up. So if you ask me—how to be? ... And yet it is true—it is true. In the destructive element immerse. … That was the way. To follow the dream, and again to follow the dream ….”
Strive not to be. Strive only to act with the madness that consumes all.
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