Wednesday 26 October 2011

Precision of being.

 
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Everything about Mr. Gurdjieff is very mathematical,
very precise. If you look at pictures of his pantry
taken late in his life, the items, herbs and foodstuffs
are impeccably arranged. The way he sits in photographs
is always poised and collected.

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A genuine bandit

Holding to an aim, Mr. Gurdjieff
described a bandit, hiding behind
a rock with his gun aimed, waiting
for travellers to come into view.
He said that:"A good genuine, honest
brigand, will stand for hours with the sun
shining on him, thirsty, flies irritating him,
he will not move". We think this as an
example of a man holding an aim.

Tuesday 25 October 2011

Mr. Gurdjieff said: "Even I Gurdjieff have a teacher".

Mr. Gurdjieff said: "Even I Gurdjieff have a teacher".
He had entered the chain of conscious influence.
The inner circle of humanity.
The key to the door is suffering of oneself, seeing
onself, accepting, changing, becoming humble
and persistent, giving and loving.

Student to master.

Gurdjieff knew his role, he had worked through
every step of the way of evolution. Labored, gone
through the humiliation of his old self, broken
through his mechanicality and societal programming.
And awakened, then his role changed, and required
that he must teach what he had learned.

Sunday 23 October 2011

The chain of Conscious Influence

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The chain of Conscious Influence continues
into this age. Gurdjieff made a very significant
contribution to the development of esotericism
in the west. This needed to occur because a
shift was due, instead of seekers from the West
going to the East, the East was starting to break
down, and needed to come to the West.
Gurdjieff in a way, was like the boiler room workers
in the movie "Titanic", as the ship starts to sink
the lower deck doors automatically close, and
one man finally slides through before the door closes.
Gurdjieff is a bit like this in a sense, he brought much
of the ancient teaching with him, which might now
be gone forever. Destroyed by war and politics.

Jesus

Mr. Gurdjieff once played some of his pupils
an especially haunting piece of music on his
harmonium. When he finished, he looked at the
group and said: "This music came from the
monastery where Jesus spent from his eighteenth
to his thirtieth year".

Music

If you listen to modern music, rock music,
it is loud, the lights flash, it is all about release.
A release of energy. The tension that builds in people
in any culture, especially now. Partly this is natural.
Gurdjieff said his music was designed to penetrate
to the emotional centre. To reawaken man's feelings.

Wednesday 19 October 2011

Poise

In the photos of Mr. Gurdjieff,
he is always poised.
Constantly aware.

Experience

Mr. Gurdjieff said he was able to write his great book
"Beelzebubs Tales to his Grandson", because he had
experience to the full, everything that life had to offer.
From happiness to sadnes, soil and suffering.
By not shirking a man's experiences, he has the possibility
of not "dying like a dog".

Sunday 16 October 2011

de Hartman's first test

Mr. Gurdjieff put Mr. de Hartman on the spot
when they first met. He arranged their meeting in
a dingy cafe filled with whores and low lifes.
Mr. Gurdjieff's shirt cuffs were grubby, and being
a member of the Tzar's court, Mr.Hartman had
to risk the shame and scandal had he been seen
in such a place, mixing with such company.
His first test.

A different type of man.

Mr. Gurdjieff came from an age where a search like his
was possible, and critical. Where a man could make a
heroic journey to the self. He was of an exotic type to
western eyes. Mr. Ouspensky on first meeting him,
felt embarrassed, because he knew this man was out
of place wearing a bowler hat in a cafe in Russia.
He knew he had been somewhere, and experienced
something very special.

Saturday 15 October 2011

A simple answer

One needs guidance, and complete trust
in one's teacher. Mr. Gurdjieff said that sometimes
in some schools, a student is given a drug, or somehow
brought to the state where he can see what can be
achieved through long and prolonged work.
One does not need artificial stimulants to reach the
ability to see one's future, a flash of one's higher self
even for a few seconds, offers the simple answer.

Risk

The Fourth Way, sometimes requires one
to take an extreme risk. It is important at
these times that one has a teacher to
oversee and protect one in these times of
vulnerability. One is stepping through the
looking glass of one's self.

Thursday 13 October 2011

A real teacher.

A real teacher suffers for his students.
It is a razor's edge for a young teacher.
They may often be tempted by sex, money,
having overcome this at one level in their
evolution, plus the adulation of the group.
This is their test, a test they must pass.
 

Business

Mr. Gurdjieff said to work with what is happening in the moment.
"Too bad if business worth many millions is outside the door."

Tuesday 11 October 2011

Throw everything to the Devil

Mr. Gurdjieff spoke about  our resistance to working
on ourselves. He said that a man needs to get to
the point where he throws "everything to the devil",
only then can he truly work. Otherwise, we make
excuses, deviate, leave projects and initiatives
unfinished. Work means work.

Saturday 8 October 2011

Counting exercises.

Mr. Gurdjieff gave many sensing, feeling, and different
types of exercises to help his students build their
concentration. Such as counting up in threes from
one to forty nine, and back down again, then next time
up to forty six, and then back down again and so on.

The type of man not now seen in the west.

As Mr. Gurdjieff said,
He came to teach the way to become the type
of man, "not now seen in western world".
An evolved man.

Thursday 6 October 2011

Balance

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With a man like Mr. Gurdjieff,
it is important to remember,
he is still a man, but he has formed
a second body of energy inside his
physical body. It has complete control
of the physical body.
Mr. Ouspensky noted as one of his first
impressions on meeting Gurdjieff, is that
he would spare himself nothing to pursue
his aims.
He often worked through twenty four hour
days in Paris making money for his institute,
then he would arrive back at his Chateau
and begin to teach. Be careful with this
information, he knew how to carefully control
his accumulators, but this is for another time.

A form of tantric sex.

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Mr. Gurdjieff, even into his sixties, had a very
active sexual life, so much so that a student
who lived in the living room of his apartment,
had to move out, he could not take the nightly
noisy "disturbances", coming from the next room,
as a parade of attractive women arrived each evening.
Somewhere once, we found a reference that a young
woman, part one of his lovers, vaguely stated that he
practiced a form of tantric sex.

Sexual stumbling blocks.

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Mr. Gurdjieff once pointed to one of his pupils
who was lost, staring at an attractive young woman,
a pupil of Mr. G's, also in the same room.
Gurdjieff said, "take this young man here, his
attention is three quarters gone".

This young man, was quite new in the group,
and was doing what all young men do, but the
work teaches us that we have to learn to become real.
BE a real man, or a real woman.
Not fascinated children, those who sexually attract us
are one of our biggest stumbling blocks.