tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7895834196967635384..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: On Becoming One that You May Find the OneGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25147312426979691242007-11-01T20:05:00.000-07:002007-11-01T20:05:00.000-07:00Louis Pauwels' "Monsieur Gurdjieff" was first publ...Louis Pauwels' "Monsieur Gurdjieff" was first published in 1954, in France. It was first published in English in 1964.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52528326402510703862007-10-08T17:27:00.000-07:002007-10-08T17:27:00.000-07:00"On Becoming One that You May Find the One"Or, it ..."On Becoming One that You May Find the One"<BR/><BR/><BR/>Or, it takes one to gno One.NoMohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01100042056270224683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14505370194611353732007-10-08T12:15:00.000-07:002007-10-08T12:15:00.000-07:00What's the point of living a life more abundant if...What's the point of living a life more abundant if you can't live it more abundantly? <BR/><BR/>I <I>say.</I><BR/><BR/>The real trouble with this... rebirth, death, is, that you come to a place where more or less, everything you know is wrong. Or, maybe (more accurately) you really are as a child, and have to relearn a great deal of what you thought you 'knew'. <BR/><BR/>It is to be wise without machination, cunning without malice, innocent without naivete, and so forth. In order to have the knowledge of God you must be willing to let of the knowledge of man. Sometimes, we don't really know which is which and they intertwine. So maybe as intellectuals we fear becoming idiots, louts, fools.<BR/><BR/>But I'm then reminded of Christ's wisdom, which was, not that he was wise, but that he was wisdom itself. Not that he knew the truth but that he was truth. It is in this place that the knowing and being become one; not that the knowing is the being, but rather, the threshold is where this becomes so. The saints seem to approximate this in lesser and greater degrees; being something instead of having it. But having it because they were it. <BR/><BR/>How can one explain?<BR/><BR/>Also, <A HREF="http://networdblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/tough-guys.html" REL="nofollow">good article here.</A>Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90629800039057400812007-10-08T11:29:00.000-07:002007-10-08T11:29:00.000-07:00Walt quoted:"Of course, all was not “holy;” he had...Walt quoted:<BR/>"Of course, all was not “holy;” he had an earthly side – food & drink, ribald humour at times, but he was always a very religious man."<BR/><BR/>Also said of Luther & CS Lewis. Not bad company.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67850578487390011952007-10-08T10:24:00.000-07:002007-10-08T10:24:00.000-07:00Folks, I'm reading the Pillar and the Ground of T...Folks,<BR/><BR/> I'm reading the <I>Pillar and the Ground of Truth</I>. It's an excellent look at Russian Orthodoxy. I'm reading about the same sort of self-sacrifice that Bob mentions in this post. I also read about it in the <I>Tao Te Ching</I>. By self-sacrifice I mean letting go of who you think you are in order to become who you really are. Not ego death exactly, but the metaphor of dying in order to be reborn fits. An ego reboot? Maybe more like an ego upgrade. You shut down Windows for the last time and reboot as an elegant iMac.<BR/>Ha!Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03149296283560293988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3207159968395618742007-10-08T09:50:00.000-07:002007-10-08T09:50:00.000-07:00Just for the record, Pauwels wrote a book titled G...Just for the record, Pauwels wrote a book titled <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Gurdjieff-Louis-Pauwels/dp/B000Q0VMHY/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-9304063-0855908?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191861681&sr=8-2" REL="nofollow">Gurdjieff</A>, which described the man in a dark light, even saying his teachings were "Luciferian."<BR/><BR/>At the time when that book was published (1964), former pupils of Gurdjieff were buzzing about it. One of his close pupils, Solita Solano, wrote this to a friend:<BR/><BR/>"Gurdjieff’s daily teachings and “exercises” could not have harmed the most delicate child – examinations of conscience, learning to seek God, how properly to pray, how to undecieve oneself, conquer feelings of pride and revenge, distinguish between the true and the false, care of one’s health, clean out the stables before trying to cultivate one’s soul, et cetera. <BR/><BR/>Of course, all was not “holy;” he had an earthly side – food & drink, ribald humour at times, but he was always a very religious man."<BR/><BR/>Pauwels later changed his opinion about his former teacher, as Bob noted.walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57882361465945919882007-10-08T09:37:00.000-07:002007-10-08T09:37:00.000-07:00Ha-ha, if I had known you owned the book, I could ...Ha-ha, if I had known you owned the book, I could have just sent you the page number!walthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388218390016612051noreply@blogger.com