Diversity: Degrees, variations and bridges
Part VI
This blog is a way of sharing ‘how.’ This blog is a guide but this information cannot ‘teach’ one the experience.
It is up to each individual to make their own journey, exert their own effort.
The journey is long, arduous, filled with fear, failure, and self-doubt, but from personal experience I can tell you the journey, if successful, is well worth the struggle.
There will be many along the way who will tell you to ‘just accept’ this or that, who will tell you to be at peace and not question.
I will tell you quite the opposite. Question, question and question yet again. Question even more deeply with each question.
"The teaching is the guide, and only he who questions more deeply can be responsible to serve."
The Reality of Being,The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p. xvi
Understanding cannot come without knowledge but knowledge can come without understanding. So it is one must experience personally if one is to understand the knowledge which others can provide them.
"You have to see for yourself.” For her the idea alone, the concept without experience, was not enough – truth could not be thought. Indeed, the knowledge of the thinking mind, especially thoughts about “who we are,” was an obstacle, a veil hiding reality."
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p. xvii
Every journey begins with the first step and knowing and understanding our physical, astral (emotional) and mental selves is the first step to finding our true selves. The next step emerges in understanding The Silence: The Void.
Part VI
This blog is a way of sharing ‘how.’ This blog is a guide but this information cannot ‘teach’ one the experience.
It is up to each individual to make their own journey, exert their own effort.
The journey is long, arduous, filled with fear, failure, and self-doubt, but from personal experience I can tell you the journey, if successful, is well worth the struggle.
There will be many along the way who will tell you to ‘just accept’ this or that, who will tell you to be at peace and not question.
I will tell you quite the opposite. Question, question and question yet again. Question even more deeply with each question.
"The teaching is the guide, and only he who questions more deeply can be responsible to serve."
The Reality of Being,The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p. xvi
Understanding cannot come without knowledge but knowledge can come without understanding. So it is one must experience personally if one is to understand the knowledge which others can provide them.
"You have to see for yourself.” For her the idea alone, the concept without experience, was not enough – truth could not be thought. Indeed, the knowledge of the thinking mind, especially thoughts about “who we are,” was an obstacle, a veil hiding reality."
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p. xvii
Every journey begins with the first step and knowing and understanding our physical, astral (emotional) and mental selves is the first step to finding our true selves. The next step emerges in understanding The Silence: The Void.
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