56 SKETCHES OF G-REAT TEUTHS

and pain, able to acquire that attitude to life so
that the outer things do not touch us, do not
interfere with the inward peace, do not shake
that which is stable within us. To gain this
stage we must have been through the first, for
only by discrimination shall we learn on what
rock to anchor. Having discovered that rock,
we hold fast, and no storm or tempest made by
desires can shake us.

III. The Six Endowments or Q-ood Conduct:

Control of Mind, Control of Body, of speech and
actions, Tolerance, Endurance, Balance or One-
pointedness, Confidence or Trust. We need to
build into ourselves those qualities which will
harden the rock on which we have decided to
build, and we set to work undisturbed by
outside influences and find it none too easy to
control mind and body and thought. That is
our aim. The body is not so difficult to control
after a certain point, but mind and thought
are closely allied, they act and react on each
other and are far more difficult to bring into
subjection. Yet we have to learn that these
are all our servants and must obey the I, the
Self, the Spirit that should be lord over them.
So long as they govern then are we slaves of
the body and mind, tossed about by every wave

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