Cara Soror, 
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Structure of Mind 
Based on That of Body 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Was the sudden cloudburst at the end of my last letter 
somewhat of a surprise, and more than somewhat of a shock? 
Cheer up! The worst is yet to come. 
It is surely the wise course to accept the plain facts; to try 
to explain them away, or to excuse them, is certain to involve 
one in a maelstrom of sophistry; and when, despite these 
laudable efforts, the facts jump up and land a short jab to the 
point, one is even worse off than before. 
This has to be said, because Sammasati is assuredly one of 
the most useful, as well as one of the most trustworthy and 
most manageable, weapons in the armoury of the Aspirant. 
You stop me, obviously with a demand for a personal 
explanation. "How is it," you write, "that you reject with 
such 
immitigable scorn the very foundation-stones 
of 
Buddhism, and yet refer disciples enthusiastically to the 
technique of some of its subtlest super-structures?" 
I laff. 
It is the old, old story. When the Buddha was making 
experiments and recording the results, he was on safe ground : 
when he started to theorize, committing (incidentally) 
innumerable logical crimes in the process, he is no better a 
guesser than the Arahat next door, or for the matter of that, 
the Arahat's Lady Char. 
It may be no more than a personal fancy, but I think Allan 
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