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Recieved: 2001/04/24 16:07
Subject: [K-list] The Book and its Cover
From: Christopher Wynter
On 2001/04/24 16:07, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
You won't find Ryanto where the regular guru's hang out ..
but then .. he found me .. by a long and circuitous route ..
and that call came more as a summons ..
As I looked at him, I saw a little man with an oriental
appearance, buck teeth, balding head and deep black pools for eyes.
It wasn't the loudly coloured shorts that covered the sticks that
passed as legs which caught my eye, but the collar of the Roman
Catholic Priest that he wore.
With one deft move he took my legs out from under me .. and he
didn't even touch me ...
"You will know the Tao .. then you will know another ..
but not before you know yourself"
During the time I knew him, Ryanto never gave homilies ..
"one-liners" were his forte.
As I lay in a crumpled heap on the floor, the gentlest smile
extended from him to me ..
"Before you can run, first you must learn to crawl again .. "
Only now, ten years further on, do I understand this little man,
the son of a Taoist Priest and a Yogini mother.
Many times I thought I understood him ..
but every time I thought I had something to hold on to,
he would slip sideways, leaving me to hold
on to the empty space where my idea of him was projected.
"There are many paths up the mountain" .. he would say ..
"and the only way you will know them all
is to become the mountain".
In one of his Darshans which passed as a University Psychology
Lecture, he dressed me down in front of the other students ..
"Christopher .. If you want a degree which qualifies you as a well
versed parrot, you will learn and memorise everything I have to
teach you .. and you will be able to quote me all of the sacred
texts .. "
My mouth dropped open and others in the room started to snicker ..
I waited for what was to follow because I knew that this was
another mask that he wore ..
"The Jnani can never be a true Jnani true until he embraces Bhakti"
There was a stunned silence in the room .. but for me, the penny
had dropped .. or rather it was as though I had been hit over the
head with a whole bucket full of them .. none too gently ..
"The true therapist" .. he went on .. "can do nothing for another
whilst he has any knowledge."
"Only when the self has been consumed
can I know the path of you
because only then can I be you" ..
Stunned silence gave way to empty stares from the full lecture theatre..
slowly I nodded as a wave of understanding passed over me ..
"When I evaluate your final paper" .. he went on .. "I want to
know what Christopher Wynter has to say. Anything else I can read
in the books. The fact that you can quote what others have written
tells me you have become a know-it-all parrot."
" When I can feel the essence of your words mirrors the essence
of the books, then I will know you have become the therapist ..
the priest-healer .. the Jnani."
That was his introduction to Bhakti .. the application of Jnani ..
firstly to what was left of my self ..
The following Sunday, I decided to check him out at the local RC
church where, with another mask firmly in place, he was celebrating
mass for those who did not know him.
"When Moses succeeded in climbing the mountain of his own ego, he
was met with the Divine Flame, the essence of Being which he fell
down and worshipped. Only then did he understand .."
Ryanto's beady eyes spotted me trying to hide behind a pillar at
the back of the congregation .. his voice changed ever so slightly
"There are only two commandments .. God dwells in you as you ..
see God in each other"
Ouch .. but he wasn't finished with me even then ...
"All of the other commandments were given because the people
couldn't understand the first two".
The congregation was starting to squirm at this time ..
"You can only see the view from the top of the mountain, but you
cannot tell anyone else about it until you can get off your
elevated perch and speak in the language of the common people"
I watched the people leaving the church after the service. Most
said very little and many had that far away look of someone who had
just come back from a very deep meditation ..
But then, Ryanto had that effect on people ..
he just kept changing the cover of the book ..
Christopher Wynter
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