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An old Zen master always told this fable to unserious students: Late one night a blind man was about to go home after visiting a friend. “Please,” he said to his friend, “May I take your lantern with me?” “Why carry a lantern?” asked his friend. “You won’t see any better with it.” “No,” said the blind one, “perhaps not. But others will see me bet

For those who are unfamiliar with the Gurdjieff Movements, there are many videos available on YouTube which will give you an idea of its outer form. If you think that the dances look extraordinarily difficult, then you’d be right. These dances are a real challenge to the laziness of one’s attention in mind and body. They are an exceptional means to develop oneself. An article on the history of the Movemen

In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky changed my life. In its pages are the record of the early teachings of George Gurdjieff to his Russian group. The knowledge and techniques that are presented in the book are scientific and pragmatic, though they seem to belong to some alien/ancient civilization and not to ours. The fundamental idea of the book is that man is a complicated machine made up of several intell

  Sunday, January 9, 2011 3:00 PM There is a 4,500 year-old tradition described in the teachings of Mr. Gurdjieff called “The Toast of the Idiots.” The central idea is that everyone in the universe is an idiot of some kind. In fact, there are 21 kinds, each representing a level of spiritual development. God himself is Idiot #21 and Jesus Christ is Idiot #20. “The Toast of the Idiots” invo

[hang2column foo="bar"][/hang2column]                                         When a man sits down to meditate for the first time, he finds himself in a storm of thoughts and emotions. If he keeps trying, eventually he is able to see a little better in the storm. What he sees is that his intentions and actions are rare