Monday, 20 August 2018
Rouse from deep sleep
The Speaking Tree Lifestyle | ET
K HARISH
Acentral idea in George Gurdjieff ’s
philosophy was that man is in deep sleep. He is an automaton and each of his
actions, thoughts and feelings are just passive and mechanical responses to
stimuli. Things just happen, with no true and independent thought or action.
Without self-knowledge, he says, man will remain a slave, a plaything of the
forces acting upon him.
Gurdjieff considered human beings
incomplete, but endowed with an ability to develop potential. The way is
self-observation, the beginning of a long journey of self-discovery. In the
process, your deceptive sense of self-becomes apparent. Gurdjieff calls them
‘I’s. The ‘I’s are false personalities that appear and disappear at will, to
which you are continually enslaved. Your deeds or emotions are determined by
the peculiar characteristics of each ‘I’ — a schizophrenic existence that seems
to tear your life, swinging you across happiness and sorrow.
Gurdjieff ’s teachings divide man into
three centres: the moving, thinking and emotional centres. The moving centre is
responsible for physical work, thinking centre for logical reasoning, and
emotional centre for emotional states. We need to harmonise all the three
centres equally.
But most of our lives are limited to one
or, at best, two centres. Our lasting memories are ones where our physical,
emotional and thinking centres have combined to create a complete experience.
Man cannot do this by himself. He must work in a group with like-minded people.
To overcome their sleep, they can
wake each other up.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are
the author's own.
Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta
Jealousy is the central vice of every
enslaved race. And it is jealousy and the want of combination which causes and perpetuates
slavery.
Organization is power, and the secret of it
is obedience.
Do you know, the least show of leading destroys
everything by jealousy?
Use agreeable and whole some language towards
even the greatest enemy.
Know that talking ill of others in private
is a sin. You must wholly avoid it.
Cultivate the virtue of obedience, but you
must not sacrifice you own faith. No centralization is possible unless there is
obedience to superiors . No great work can be done without the centralization
of individual forces. How to be a leader Vivekananda
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a
doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation
on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they
argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been
misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I
agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you
are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a
lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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Heaven moment of the week in asian game Iran won a bronze medal by 7 points,
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