Insights at a Sage's Bathroom Sink "Don't splash too much when using the sink" he reprimanded me after I brushed my teeth in his bathroom in Blonay, Switzerland. That was 36 years ago and now those words have taken on new meanings just as Tony told me about PB— "each moment with a sage is a learning experience so be aware of spiritual lessons coming your way." Dante wrote on four levels of interpretation in sacred scriptures— I've taken PB's words literally— wiping off water in sinks at home and even in public restrooms. The moral meaning may be cleanliness is next to godliness and King Janaka's dry mind enlightened by Buddha in one night is an allegorical story. Dante said the anagogical meaning is discerned only by saints and sages— so water droplets are thoughts within us and a clean sink is Pure Consciousness. How I wish that these insights would come sooner to share with PB the next morning at breakfast when he commended me for learning my lesson in cleaning up his sink. But I did have an awakening that day while brushing my teeth at PB's sink— I had been using Ramana Maharshi's mantra "Who Am I?" to be enlightened. God told Moses "I Am that I Am" and the Hindu Mahavakya "Thou art That" reveals to us the true nature of The Self— Suddenly I realized that God or "I AM" is not on some mountaintop or cave but in AIM itself— my toothpaste told me so! You need not go outside of aim to find it— PB smiled "write about this in your book!"         — Peter Y. Chou             Mountain View, 11-1-2012

Meeting Paul Brunton in 1976 Brushing my teeth at sink (reconstructed in Photoshop) Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) Ramana's Who Am I? AIM Toothpaste