Diversity: Degrees, variations and bridges
Part V
So it is I bring you what it is I have been given. So it is I expose myself to the potential of ridicule, skepticism and ostracism.
It is said when it comes to ‘teaching’ how to experience that there are no teachers.
"Indeed, there are no teachers."
The Reality of Being,The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann Shambhala, 2010, p. xv
There is no doubt one cannot ‘teach’ an experience. Only through personal experiencing can one experience.
It is also true, however, that those that have experienced can share the experience and share the means by which they came to experience.
In fact, those who have experienced, those who have found the path, those who have journeyed into the silence, have an obligation to cut a verbal trail for others to follow, for others to build upon and for future generations of our species to advance themselves up the spiral of evolutionary development so as to make the journey for future generations less difficult allowing a flood of humanity, as opposed to a trickle of humanity, to know both worlds, the world of the physical as well as the world of the spiritual.
Many have come before and attempted to teach.
"Regarding the book The Reality of Being, de Salzmann said: I am writing a book on how to be in life, on the path to take in order to live on two levels. It will show how to find a balance, to go from one to the other, or rather to find the way in between. We have to see beyond, and through, our ordinary thinking in order to open to another mind. Otherwise, we remain at the threshold in front of the door, and the door does not open. "
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p. xvi
Not all teachers are ‘great’ teachers but all teachers, be they ‘great’ teachers or ‘ordinary’ teachers, have one thing in common, namely, they all ‘share’ what it is they know and understand.
Thus one who wishes to share is by definition a teacher
Previously we examined the physical machine we call ‘man’, now it is time to begin our examination of level 4 as we begin our journey to know and understand the ethereal, spiritual aspect of one’s self.
Part V
So it is I bring you what it is I have been given. So it is I expose myself to the potential of ridicule, skepticism and ostracism.
It is said when it comes to ‘teaching’ how to experience that there are no teachers.
"Indeed, there are no teachers."
The Reality of Being,The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann Shambhala, 2010, p. xv
There is no doubt one cannot ‘teach’ an experience. Only through personal experiencing can one experience.
It is also true, however, that those that have experienced can share the experience and share the means by which they came to experience.
In fact, those who have experienced, those who have found the path, those who have journeyed into the silence, have an obligation to cut a verbal trail for others to follow, for others to build upon and for future generations of our species to advance themselves up the spiral of evolutionary development so as to make the journey for future generations less difficult allowing a flood of humanity, as opposed to a trickle of humanity, to know both worlds, the world of the physical as well as the world of the spiritual.
Many have come before and attempted to teach.
"Regarding the book The Reality of Being, de Salzmann said: I am writing a book on how to be in life, on the path to take in order to live on two levels. It will show how to find a balance, to go from one to the other, or rather to find the way in between. We have to see beyond, and through, our ordinary thinking in order to open to another mind. Otherwise, we remain at the threshold in front of the door, and the door does not open. "
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p. xvi
Not all teachers are ‘great’ teachers but all teachers, be they ‘great’ teachers or ‘ordinary’ teachers, have one thing in common, namely, they all ‘share’ what it is they know and understand.
Thus one who wishes to share is by definition a teacher
Previously we examined the physical machine we call ‘man’, now it is time to begin our examination of level 4 as we begin our journey to know and understand the ethereal, spiritual aspect of one’s self.
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