TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

thing with a man obsessed with sex who came to him withthe single hope of discovering new pleasures and gainingmastery over breathing and orgasm so he could satisfy allhis mistresses. Day and night, adepts passed through hisroom, one after the other. The man went beyond his wildestdreams and then regained equilibrium by passingthrough the void, the empty moment.""Your master shrank from nothing.""No. He had the art of pushing all situations to that pointwhere action is resolved into peace and quiet. One day hefound himself facing a disciple with a very violent nature,who, when he was given the freedom to do what he wanted,jumped upon my master as if to kill him. My master grabbeda log and knocked him out. When he came to, the discipleexpressed his disappointment, which we shared. We didn'tthink our master ought to have resorted to violence. Heanswered simply, 'I have many memories, and I only didthat to remind me of my own impulsiveness. It was a completelyspontaneous act.' The lesson was very effective. Thatdisciple has become one of the most deeply spontaneousadepts of our group.""What's the connection between the unconscious andthe spontaneous?""What you call the unconscious, we call the deeply conscious,and it is the field we never stop sowing with all ourunspontaneous acts. When we meditate, we let the jar thatholds the consciousness rest, the unconscious or the deeplyconscious included. When we live impulsively, this jar is foreverbeing shaken up and made cloudy. The sludge and thewater are so completely mixed up that any examination ofthe contents is impossible. When we meditate, we stop115