Comments on: Observing Yourself and Your Practice

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:10:24 +0000

One day my husband and I got lost completely in the woods on one of our hiking trips. We had been meandering around for a while when we met another couple who was lost, too. We compared our maps and hiking books. That’s what the stories about everybody else getting lost are like for me. There’s so much hope in them, especially when they are told retrospectively when their weak backhand has turned out to be part of the perfection. Moreover, these stories make me feel that I’m not the only person in the world who doesn’t have a clue. When it comes down to my own weak backhand, I usually don’t see the elephant in the room. If I see it at all, I close my eyes in mere disbelief almost immediately. Time to try again. It’s such a beautiful practice.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:15:34 +0000

Thanks for this post- I’m glad that we’re reading some Fourth Way- Gurdjieff- material again. One thing that really impresses me with this material is that it takes real effort to do these things. Being objective to my own patterns is very very hard. So hard, that I subconsciously avoid doing it. Even after you TELL us that we’re subconsciously going to avoid doing it! This post is a good reminder to redouble my effort.

By: martino

martino — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:43:16 +0000

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