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Your sister Hanna had baby this morning. I not find out yet whether it be boy or girl, so I not know whether
you be an aunt or an uncle.
Your uncle Leopold drown last week in a vat of whisky. Some of the men dived in to save him, but he fight
them off hard. We cremated his body, but it took three days to put out the fire.
Your father not have much to drink at Christmas. I put a bottle of Castor oil in his pint of beer. It keep him
going until New Year’s Day.
It only rain twice last week. First for three day and then for four day.
Try to learn write me soon.
Your loving mother,
XXX P.S. I be going to send you ten dollars, but I already seal the envelope.
Polacks are great people more Polacks are needed here! But it is difficult for poor Polacks to come because
their country is dominated by the communists.
Just a few days ago I received a letter saying they would like to start a center somewhere in Poland. They
would like the center to remain hidden; I don’t think they will be able to manage it! They even want to become
sannyasins but they will be caught.
In Russia there are a few sannyasins. They cannot wear orange, they cannot wear the mala, but they have
been managing well. They have their malas, they have made arrangements for the malas to reach them. Now,
this letter from Poland: they want malas and they want books but they have not given their address!
Johnson went to the zoo to see Samson and Lionel, billed as the two most vicious lions in the world. There was
no doubt about Samson, the smaller one, for if even a feather came within his reach he would pounce on it and
rip it to shreds. But Lionel, the other, larger lion, did nothing but lie against some rocks licking between his hind
legs.
Johnson asked the zookeeper how come Lionel was advertised as being so savage.
”Even though he is just lying there licking his sensitive areas,” explained the zookeeper, ”Lionel is more ferocious
than the other one. In fact, not twenty minutes ago he ate a Polack that fell into the cage.”
”Then why is he licking himself like that?”
”Oh,” said the zookeeper, ”he is trying to get the taste out of his mouth!”
Purnananda, meet Anando. Try to find out there may be a few other Polacks also trying to hide themselves,
because they know once they are known I will be after them. Now you can declare whosoever is a Polack because
I will be after them anyhow! So you can declare whoever is a Polack. You can make a small society of the Polacks.
In the new commune it will be good to have small communities, separate communities, of Italians, Polacks, of
Germans.... There will be a few difficulties.
Gayan wrote to me this morning saying, ”Beloved Master, you may not be aware, but now I have to tell you
that I am half Italian the fault was my father’s, he was Italian and half German; that fault is my mother’s, she
was German.”
There will be some difficulty for people like Gayan, but we can make arrangements: they can live on the
boundary line, half in the Italian commune and half in the German commune. And I don’t think there will be
people who are German and Italian and Polack, all three; that will be difficult, very difficult.
Miss Zabriski walked into a physician’s office and said, ”I would like to get a vassilation.”
”Miss,” said the MD, ”I think what you are talking about is a vaccination.”
”Yeah,” said the Polish girl, ”and I don’t want you to give it to me on my arm because I wear a sleepless
nightgown.”
”You mean sleeveless nightgown?”
”And I don’t want it on my thigh because I have a zucchini bathing suit.”
”You mean bikini?”
”And I don’t want you to vaccinate me on my Virginia.”
”You mean vagina?”
”Alright,” shouted the girl. ”Virginia, vagina, just as long as I don’t get small cox!”
Enough for today.
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 11
Chapter 7 Beyond the beyond
WANTING NOTHING WITH ALL YOUR HEART STOP THE STREAM.
WHEN THE WORLD DISSOLVES EVERYTHING BECOMES CLEAR.
GO BEYOND THIS WAY OR THAT WAY, TO THE FARTHER SHORE WHERE THE WORLD DISSOLVES
AND EVERYTHING BECOMES CLEAR.