by Asaf | May 1, 2013 | Esoteric Christianity, Fourth Way
Ouspensky’s exercise of trying to be present uninterruptedly for two minutes showed us our multiplicity. All writers verified that their chief difficulty with this exercise lay in the thoughts, sensations and emotions that opposed it. We verified that we are not...
by Asaf | Apr 1, 2013 | Buddhism, Fourth Way
“Then Siddhartha, looking back on the city, exclaimed, ‘Until I have seen the other shore of birth and death, I will never again enter my Father’s city!” – Buddhacarita In our previous post on The Great Departure, we followed Siddhartha’s escape from the prison...
by Asaf | Mar 1, 2013 | Buddhism, Fourth Way
Novelty awakens us. Peter Ouspensky verified this in his first experiments with self-remembering. He realized that he had occasionally remembered himself throughout his life, but unknowingly, infrequently and unintentionally: “Moments of self-remembering did occur in...
by Asaf | Feb 1, 2013 | Buddhism, Fourth Way
In order to realize his possibilities, man must have a very strong desire for liberation and be willing to sacrifice everything, to risk everything, for the sake of this liberation. ~ George Gurdjieff The Palace of Sleep Gurdjieff likened awakening to escaping from...
by Asaf | Jan 3, 2013 | Fourth Way
In the previous set of posts, we explored what it meant to be. I highlighted two aspects of being: Be as a command used to invoke self-remembering and Be as an emotional reverberation used to amplify that command. Charles responded by raising the need of having...
