Swanwick Star Issue No. 7 (2014)

The Bird in the Verandah

August 19, 1999

If we were to talk together about the nature of “awakening” and the meditative insight in one’s life, how might it sound, even though words are wholly inadequate?  –

 

Once “the light goes on”, time and space must be created in one’s life to accommodate that energy.

 

With this nurturing, right action comes into being.

 

Right action is choiceless, inevitable –

 

outside the realm of normal consciousness.

 

It has no blue-print, no mandate.

 

It is the voice that must be heard and obeyed.

 

It negates all that is false.

 

It recalls all that is truth.

 

It creates all that is good and pure.

 

It is timeless in conception.

 

II                            November 14, 1999

 

There is an Insight which can fundamentally change one’s perception of things, if it is embodied in one’s life:

When the Intelligence within one awakens and sees that calculative reason is intrinsically incapable of realizing enlightenment, a displacement occurs and, if obedience to the inner voice ensues, it check-mates all frivolous activity. Then, one does not enter the world of falsehood and turns back at the threshold. That mind is a transformed mind and is open to revelation or the Unknown.

 

 III                               March 17, 2000

 

A mutation can occur in the brain bringing about a radical change of view whereby the past and future lose their hold and one becomes incapable of sustaining thoughts about them; it is this capacity of the human mind to sustain certain thoughts that seems to link it to the induction of falseemotion lived in the past or projected into the future and, therefore, to cause suffering. The result is a totally stale and unspontaneous way of living.

Suddenly, one wakes up from this stupor and says:

God knows how many times we’ve come round and married and had children and gone through all the hell of human existence, but, this time it’s a party –

and, I’m not going to miss it for anything!

 

[The above are personal impressions by Chanda Siddoo-Atwal of dialogues with Professor Allan W. Anderson printed with his permission;  these are not verbatim discussions, but only excerpts recalled after conversations in which she has tried to “pluck out” their essence from her notes taken during these talks. It shall be serialized in its entirety as a tribute to his life and work in the coming issues of The Swanwick Star]