I was struck by Jack’s mention of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff (in Sunday’s call), since it was these writers who\u00c2\u00a0helped me to become\u00c2\u00a0open to Buddhism and TSK.\u00c2\u00a0 Gurdjieff promised three series of writing: the first to destroy his reader’s illusions that they are already conscious; the third to provide a true understanding to the minds thus prepared.\u00c2\u00a0 “Beelzebub’s Tales” did an admirable job of making me doubt that I really knew anything, but I never found anything in Gurdjieff’s writing to provide a better way of living the life I was still stuck in.\u00c2\u00a0 After I started reading Tarthang Tulku’s writings I felt that I had finally encountered the kind of truth that Gurdjief had promiced.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if that was all along his intention: to create\u00c2\u00a0greater openness to the wisdom tradiions still alive in our world.\u00c2\u00a0 And where does TSK fit into this perspective?\u00c2\u00a0 I find that TSK simultaneously presents\u00c2\u00a0the evidence that we are unconscious, together with the insights, motivations, and guidance needed to give us possibilities for waking up.\u00c2\u00a0 In this week’s reading I especially appreciate how the much malligned ‘past’ is being invited back into the family of Time.\u00c2\u00a0 Carrier of our conditioning, source of our unconscious projections of substance onto the wholeness of space, the past can also be a vital partner in the wholeness of time.\u00c2\u00a0 Ah, the prodigal\u00c2\u00a0son returns,\u00c2\u00a0finally able to accept a more modest place (instead of always placing himself in the center of every experrience).\u00c2\u00a0–Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was struck by Jack’s mention of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff (in Sunday’s call), since it was these writers who\u00c2\u00a0helped me to become\u00c2\u00a0open to Buddhism and TSK.\u00c2\u00a0 Gurdjieff promised three series of writing: the first to destroy his reader’s illusions that … Continue reading