Tradition School for Self Knowledge

02/08/2024

OUR SUBJECT TONIGHT IS PHILOSOPHY.
First let it be quite clear that I make no claims to being a philosopher. Like you, I am a student.

The description philosopher, is best bestowed on a man or woman by others who looking at his or her life and work, are moved to say “this man or woman loves wisdom”.
But this is the meaning of philosophy, love of wisdom.
How many of us could claim that we loved wisdom, ........
how many of us could claim that we rightly know what wisdom is?
And yet, through our study of philosophy our aim must surely be to learn to know wisdom, and if possible to grow in wisdom and sometimes at least, to be wise.

~What would you say is the nature of wisdom?
~How can it be learned?
~And how can we grow it?
~What do you understand by wisdom?
~What does the word wisdom mean to you?

30/07/2024

you who are half-awake must strive for whole
awakening and have no fear of what the awakening may bring.
Though it take the whole of your lives and more, still you must strive for this awakening. As in the Gospels, you have put your hand to the plough and the furrow must be finished, for the cost is life, but the end is Light.

15/04/2024

What is the process of waking up? Gurdjieff draws a distinction between something I do with my attention and something received.

Gurdjieff speaks of a quality of Attention that is "a sacred energy coming into me":

With a very active attention, I can receive this energy.... When this energy is there and I am sure of it, aware of it moment by moment, I begin to be.

27/03/2024

Certainly change does not happen through sitting passively at someone's feet waiting for him to give one something. Those who have come with that expectation of the oral transmission will be disappointed -as are those in search of a new way of thinking.
The only role the mind has to play is to leave the room. Intellect is fine, one hears, except that it cannot change one's state. What can?
Seeing.
It “gives" a "state of freedom." Is it about cultivating a neutral witness in oneself? Or something more?
There is an ascending movement toward a sensitivity, a receptivity, Seeing allows this other energy to appear so I can be related to it.
It is not about what is seen ----- not more information gathering but the emergence of a Look upon oneself --- that is like the sun coming out. Stay just exactly as I am.
There is an Intelligence in me that can accept. Like the sun. It doesn't care if an ant is crawling across the rug. The sun radiates with life.
When one is under this Look, there is no instructing oneself to accept what is observed- no steeling oneself to something undesirable - because acceptance is in the very nature of the energy present: Acceptance is 'energetical! Not that 'I' accept but that I am related to this energy that accepts all.
To change what is seen has no appeal for it is not where the treasure lies.
Indeed, it doesn't matter what is seen;
you are more awake, in this finer energy.
One wishes only to stay with the flow of Attention because, like the sun,
it warms you no matter how you are, doesn't care how you are.

26/03/2024

The Now-not a time but a place, the axis of attention in oneself.

16/03/2024

When speaking, don't consider. Just begin. In the silence. Speak from the love of it, and the words will come. If talking becomes ordinary, it will have no action. But if you respect and love this energy, you are called again.
Align with this energy. Simple. Natural. This relationship is everything most important -and then to bring it into life.

06/03/2024

you see how passively these ideas are received .
You see that you have a sort of peak a day after when you’ve been to this group, then then you’re allowing this all to be done fo you, what is your part , you see?

For example , you could reconstruct some of the things you hear, said by people when you’re the next day for example or even better still a couple of days later.
You may not be very successful but it would be interesting to try, because this is when the thing begins to turn down again, and you have to do something , you know the theory of the , that these octaves need a shock mh?

Well were not able to give shocks but, at least we can know that the thing is going to be faily well down soon, then if I am content, very good, but if not, then I can visualise all these people you dislike so much in this room, mh?
listen to what they said, and bring back the situation.

You may create something for yourself, not in words , but in the quietness of yourself, to picture the room and the people, and maybe you don’t try too hard, you will hear what they said, but if you try you won’t have anything , you have to let it come to you, mh?
But you must do some work, you can’t take it all like this and you know, let it wind you up, without you participating.

11/02/2024

‘Ones Authentic Self is the silent witness of all changing states, of worldly objects, including one’s body, personality, and ones essential nature.

08/02/2024

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Memory is related to I, remembering,
If I remember myself, that is not the same as the associative world, that is something of another order. Of another density, another vibration.
I hope that will help you understand something of this.
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24/01/2024

Gurdjieff's gift to the moral and spiritual welfare of mankind.

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