http://ggurdjieff.com Gurdjieff's Teaching Today Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:34:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://ggurdjieff.com/johnwalz/creation2-4/ http://ggurdjieff.com/johnwalz/creation2-4/#comments Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:00:45 +0000 John Walz, California http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1802 Self-righteousness, judgment, vanity, or as Gurdjieff called it “Egoismus” are terms used to describe this imaginary state of rightness that prevents real separation from taking place. When in it, there is still a strong sense of identification with the lower sense of self. “ I am doing this and I am good student of this work for doing this”...]]> http://ggurdjieff.com/johnwalz/creation2-4/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/williamscholte/creation2-3/ http://ggurdjieff.com/williamscholte/creation2-3/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:00:20 +0000 William Scholte, Toronto http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1772 When I first began to consider this question of “division”, my earliest observations revealed quite quickly that I had some wrong thinking on this subject. I had taken for granted that, at the moment when self- remembering appears, I would need to separate from whatever imagination I was having at the time. I noticed that this was rarely the case. ]]> http://ggurdjieff.com/williamscholte/creation2-3/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/johnstubbs/creation2-2/ http://ggurdjieff.com/johnstubbs/creation2-2/#comments Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:00:16 +0000 John Stubbs, Buenos Aires http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1756 In the moment I hear the words inside me say: “oh no I knew this would happen”, I say internally to myself that I wanted it like this, and I still want it like this. And I have to really want it – not the situation itself as it seems to be on the outside, but the state of blocking the machine and seeing myself.]]> http://ggurdjieff.com/johnstubbs/creation2-2/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/mariaarapostathi/encountering-gurdjieff-and-the-fourth-way-maria/ http://ggurdjieff.com/mariaarapostathi/encountering-gurdjieff-and-the-fourth-way-maria/#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:00:49 +0000 Maria Arapostathi, Athens http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1750 http://ggurdjieff.com/mariaarapostathi/encountering-gurdjieff-and-the-fourth-way-maria/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/asafbraverman/creation2/ http://ggurdjieff.com/asafbraverman/creation2/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 07:00:25 +0000 Asaf Braverman, California http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1661 The second step in the Biblical creation is division. This is an obvious next step, because division could not have happened before the first step of light. We cannot organize a messy room in the dark, and organic life could not be created without first dividing the waters to reveal dry land...]]> http://ggurdjieff.com/asafbraverman/creation2/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/aurorakairos/creation1-6/ http://ggurdjieff.com/aurorakairos/creation1-6/#comments Sat, 25 May 2013 07:00:42 +0000 Aurora Kairos, Campinas http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1696 One of my earliest observations was the frequency and intensity with which I expressed negative emotions. Soon I understood that this bad habit was that which most afflicted me and kept me locked in a very low state. I set the aim to work against it. Soon I noticed that self-observation would give focus to what I had to do, but did not necessarily mean that I had control...]]> http://ggurdjieff.com/aurorakairos/creation1-6/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/aurorakairos/meeting-gurdjieff-and-the-fourth-way-aurora/ http://ggurdjieff.com/aurorakairos/meeting-gurdjieff-and-the-fourth-way-aurora/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 07:00:18 +0000 Aurora Kairos, Campinas http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1676 http://ggurdjieff.com/aurorakairos/meeting-gurdjieff-and-the-fourth-way-aurora/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/johnwalz/creation1-5/ http://ggurdjieff.com/johnwalz/creation1-5/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 07:30:10 +0000 John Walz, California http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1652 One thing I had in the 1980’s that Mr. Ouspensky did not have in the early 1900’s, was a wrist watch that functions as an alarm clock. I would set it to go off every hour and self-observe. When it rang...]]> http://ggurdjieff.com/johnwalz/creation1-5/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/weilawang/creation1-4/ http://ggurdjieff.com/weilawang/creation1-4/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 09:00:46 +0000 Weila Wang, New York http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1637 Looking back now, when I first started to practice the ideas and concepts, the reminders to remember myself, more often than not, were unusual circumstances. For example participating in a wedding, or taking part in a religious ceremony...]]> http://ggurdjieff.com/weilawang/creation1-4/feed/ 0 http://ggurdjieff.com/williamscholte/creation1-3/ http://ggurdjieff.com/williamscholte/creation1-3/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 07:00:54 +0000 William Scholte, Toronto http://ggurdjieff.com/?p=1626 When I first began to ponder this question, I was immediately struck by a phenomenon that has slowly been creeping into my awareness. When I am at the cottage, surrounded by family and immersed in the tasks at hand, I can be fast asleep for hours upon end....]]> http://ggurdjieff.com/williamscholte/creation1-3/feed/ 0