Preparation: Conquering the physical machine
Part I
Self-observation is done for a reason. If one does not know why one goes through the exercise of self-observation then let it be simply said one simply observes self because others tell them self-observation is ‘the way’.
Unfortunately, the specifics of traveling the path called, ‘The Way’, are avoided as a topic of discussion by those having made the journey. The successful individual travelers of the way who have sought truth and found truth fear being labeled ‘arrogant’.
Level 4s fear being labeled arrogant, fear being called deceivers, fear being rejected, fear being ostracized, and fear taking a risk, fear the risk of sharing.
So it is many seeking answers to the forever haunting questions regarding life are condemned to remain in the dark because level 4s are afraid for themselves and mask their fears in the excuses: The seekers are not ready, the answers are meant for only a few and we will decide who they should be.
The first step to knowing one’s true essence lies in a haunting sense of a need to know. Self-observation, after sensing the need to know, after questioning the apparent meaninglessness of life, is the second step to finding truth, finding the truth regarding reality.
Self-observation is the initial step one takes to find one’s true essence for ‘the haunting need to know’ either exists within the individual or it does not. The need to know is not a conscious step one takes while self-observation on the other hand comes only through personal decision to do so.
Self-observation is the gateway to finding the knowledge and understanding regarding not only the purpose of one’s life but the very meaning of life itself.
Self-observation is a step preceding finding the silence, finding the void, finding the nothingness wherein one finds one’s true self, one’s true essence.
It is through self-observation that one can put one’s life in balance which then allows one to quiet the three levels affecting one’s life.
It is through quieting the three levels that one initiates entrance into the silence.
"Among other things, I said that the most important work for a man who has already cognized with his Reason his real significance – that is to say, who has cognized his error in the sense of the exaggerated importance given to his individuality … that is, to exercise what is called “self-observation.”
Live Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’, G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything,
Third Series, Penguin Arkana, 1978, p. 81 - 82.
"In order to see, I must learn to see. This is the first initiation into self-knowledge. …
… My effort is made with something that does not belong to my ordinary means. I need a certain will and desire unknown to my ordinary self. My ordinary “I” must give up its place.
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p 17.
Some would have you believe one can’t find the meaning of life, can’t find truth/absolute truth/truth existing outside relative truth, can’t find any self other than the sensory, emotional and/or mental self. Such people would have you believe (again the doubter’s religion comes into play – their belief comes into play) nothing exists other than the physical universe.
Ridicule, ostracism and scorn are used as tools of the secularists as a means to divert the seeker’s energy from a journey they feel compelled to take but hesitate to risk.
Part I
Self-observation is done for a reason. If one does not know why one goes through the exercise of self-observation then let it be simply said one simply observes self because others tell them self-observation is ‘the way’.
Unfortunately, the specifics of traveling the path called, ‘The Way’, are avoided as a topic of discussion by those having made the journey. The successful individual travelers of the way who have sought truth and found truth fear being labeled ‘arrogant’.
Level 4s fear being labeled arrogant, fear being called deceivers, fear being rejected, fear being ostracized, and fear taking a risk, fear the risk of sharing.
So it is many seeking answers to the forever haunting questions regarding life are condemned to remain in the dark because level 4s are afraid for themselves and mask their fears in the excuses: The seekers are not ready, the answers are meant for only a few and we will decide who they should be.
The first step to knowing one’s true essence lies in a haunting sense of a need to know. Self-observation, after sensing the need to know, after questioning the apparent meaninglessness of life, is the second step to finding truth, finding the truth regarding reality.
Self-observation is the initial step one takes to find one’s true essence for ‘the haunting need to know’ either exists within the individual or it does not. The need to know is not a conscious step one takes while self-observation on the other hand comes only through personal decision to do so.
Self-observation is the gateway to finding the knowledge and understanding regarding not only the purpose of one’s life but the very meaning of life itself.
Self-observation is a step preceding finding the silence, finding the void, finding the nothingness wherein one finds one’s true self, one’s true essence.
It is through self-observation that one can put one’s life in balance which then allows one to quiet the three levels affecting one’s life.
It is through quieting the three levels that one initiates entrance into the silence.
"Among other things, I said that the most important work for a man who has already cognized with his Reason his real significance – that is to say, who has cognized his error in the sense of the exaggerated importance given to his individuality … that is, to exercise what is called “self-observation.”
Live Is Real Only Then, When ‘I Am’, G. I. Gurdjieff, All and Everything,
Third Series, Penguin Arkana, 1978, p. 81 - 82.
"In order to see, I must learn to see. This is the first initiation into self-knowledge. …
… My effort is made with something that does not belong to my ordinary means. I need a certain will and desire unknown to my ordinary self. My ordinary “I” must give up its place.
The Reality of Being, The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff, Jeanne De Salzmann, Shambhala, 2010, p 17.
Some would have you believe one can’t find the meaning of life, can’t find truth/absolute truth/truth existing outside relative truth, can’t find any self other than the sensory, emotional and/or mental self. Such people would have you believe (again the doubter’s religion comes into play – their belief comes into play) nothing exists other than the physical universe.
Ridicule, ostracism and scorn are used as tools of the secularists as a means to divert the seeker’s energy from a journey they feel compelled to take but hesitate to risk.
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