As I observe my behaviour, my habits, inner attitudes and beliefs I note that the hold of conditioning is strong. And despite my assumption that I am open, flexible and a receptive person I see that this is not always so; and that I can see and feel my resistance and an inner rigidity to […]
Given the diversity of India, in terms of region, language, religion, food, clothes, lifestyle, there is a possibility of endless numbers of ‘us’ and ‘them’. This has been historically so but there have always been some unifying factors that have cut across some of these differences and brought people together. This crisscrossing of unity and […]
I went to see her in Paris in February 1980. It is amazing how little we know about the forces…
Two fundamental pillars of the Fourth Way are ‘conscious labour’ and ‘intentional suffering.’ To Gurdjieff these were the basis for the possibility of human evolution. Conscious Labour is action undertaken with awareness. Intentional suffering is the act of struggling against automatic manifestations of the psyche that are the result of conditioning. In Beelzebub’s Tales to [...]
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“Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free…
Two fundamental pillars of the Fourth Way are ‘conscious labour’ and ‘intentional suffering.’ To Gurdjieff these were the basis for the possibility of human evolution.
Gurdjieff says that the work on oneself should be accompanied by studying the universe and its laws. Since each individual is a cosmic entity…
The Five Being-Obligolnian-Strivings of Ashiata Shiemash from the book Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson by Gurdjieff
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