I Am East and West
Speaking to his meditation group in London, 5 August 1981.
The truth of the original East grew out of a state of feeling, a self-consistent, inward-looking, meditative state - the nature of man. The world has moved on and now all of the globe is Western. And the Western way is the way of the intellect, which has to put itself out into the world. All the product of the West is the intellect, getting it out. A natural being cannot cope, is no longer sufficient.
When in the beginning man went into his nature, he was immediately in touch with the character of man. His nature and character were linked as one. But time demands that what is within must be expressed without. So through the nature of man started to arise the character of man, and it was released as his intellect. His nature is his ground and the intellect his field - a vast orb of unity. But we have not yet reached that.
Unity consists of polarity, a connection between the field and the ground. The central pole between the two is I, the individual. But it is not done until I have polarised the field and the ground, the nature of man and the character, or intellect. The expression of the intellect as the Western way of life, as material existence, is ungrounded. In this teaching it is the intention to ground the Western intellect in the nature of man. This can only be done through the recognition of divine love and beauty. Then the intellect can reach the ground. And the ground can flower into the intellect.
I come from the ground and I flower in the intellect. I am brilliant as the intellect and brilliant in God, in my nature. So I am united. I am speaking for everyone here because this is what we are here for. I teach the teachers. You hear straightness here in this room. You hear the intellect demanding honesty from man’s nature. You must be straight and honest to polarise that nature and the intellect - to bring the two hemispheres of East and West together into one orb; to bring the realisation of love; to bring the ability to be deeply concerned for the state of the world and my fellow man. And this by doing nothing - nothing except being the pole between the two. Inasmuch as I am that, I am profoundly concerned with my fellow man and I will teach him whom my mass draws, and he will teach others who follow. This is the profound concern of the new teaching, which I am.
A Way of Truth for the West