“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...
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...
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...
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...
Man’s incompleteness was a recurring theme in Gurdjieff’s teaching. “Our starting point is that man does not know himself, that he is not,” he used to say, stressing that undeveloped man utilized only a fraction of his capacities and powers. Undeveloped man was an...
