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- This video explores the profound metaphor of "leather" from Gurdjieff's Fourth Way teachings, illustrating how this wisdom can be transformed into "shoes" to navigate life's inherent challenges. It draws parallels between the Buddhist concept of life as suffering and Gurdjieff's view of humanity as sleepwalking automatons, emphasising the transformational potential of self-awareness and spiritual practice.
We compare life's inherent suffering to walking through a sharp world, and that without spiritual practice or self-awareness, one is prone to pain and suffering. By engaging with and applying Gurdjieff's teachings, we can create protective "shoes," reducing life's impact and leading towards a more enlightened state of being, akin to achieving objective consciousness.
Through a journey of self-discovery and application of Gurdjieff's principles, you can craft your own resilient "shoes," enabling you to tread life's path with grace and resilience against its sharpness.
Well said, ma friend.
Thanks. Glad you found it valuable! 😊🙏
Wonderful words, beautifully put, my friends. Kudos! 🙏🏻❤️
I’m pleased that you found it valuable Prashant! 😀🙏
Thank you
You're welcome! 🙏
Great reference of the overall work.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it 🙏
We are each as unique as our thumbrint. The only made that works is tailormade. The teachings are the whole cloth or leather required to do so.
Boots = Wisdom and Understanding.
Wisdom and understanding is what makes life more joyous and peaceful. I agree. 😀👍
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On point. Especially within the war environment...that's a challenge. As I'm not patriotic anymore it's easier. Not to identify too much with the country
Yes, things become more difficult as the world becomes more chaotic. Hopefully we have our sturdy shoes ready by the time things become difficult for work.
What i wish to add to this? (as mentioned in "The Third Series"): *The Third world* (whose factors have their origin in the results of contemplation) *BETWEEN* "The factors of his inner world and of his outer world" (Third world, Represent a world in itself") That is? *His own world* (depending *NEITHER* upon his "outer world" *NOR* upon his "inner world") THAT IS TO SAY IT IS *INDEPENDENT* (That is to say) it is *independent* of the caprices of the processes that flow *IN HIM* as well as of the imperfections of these processes that bring them about"...
The Third world is the *initiative* (for His own perceptions and manifestations) "ONLY HE can have His own *initiative* (for perceptions and manifestations) in whose common *PRESENCE* there has been formed (in an independent and intentional manner) The totality of factors (necessary) For the Functioning of this Third world."
The matter from which (The Third world) The Soul is *Coated* can only be produced (exclusively) by the action of (These two forces) which are called "good" and "evil" by ancient science, or "affirmation" and "negation," while contemporary science calls them "attraction" and "repulsion"
"In The common *PRESENCE* of a man (These two forces) have their source in the two of the totalities of general psychic functioning: (ONE) coincidence with that (function) *whose factors proceed from* *THE RESULTS* (of impressions) *received from outside* (THE OTHER) Appear as a (function) *whose factors issue chiefly *FROM* *The results of the specific functioning of The Organs (as determined by heredity)."
(THAT "Totality of functioning") whose factors are constituted *FROM* "impressions coming from outside" is called "outer world" of man.
(THAT "other totality") whose factors have arisen (from) *AUTOMATICALLY FLOWING* "experiences" and from *REFLEXES OF THE ORGANISM* (organs whose specific character is transmitted by heredity) is called the "inner world" of man.
In *Relation* (to these "two worlds") man appears (in reality) to be a mere slave (because) in his various "perceptions and manifestations" *cannot be* (other) than comformable to the quality and the nature (of the factors) making up these totalities.
HE is *obliged* (in relation) to his "outer world" (as well as) his "inner world" (To manifest himself *in accordance* with) the orders of (The factors) making up these totalities.
HE is *obliged*, in relation to his outer world (as well as his "inner world") To manifest himself *in accordance* (with the orders received) from any given factor of one or the other totality.
HE cannot have "his own initiative" (he is not free) "to want or not want" (but is obliged) to carry out passively this or that "result" (proceeding) from "The outer or the inner" (results)...
In the case of a "a man in quotation marks," The "I" (is missing) and what takes its place (and "fill its role") is the (factor) "of initiative" (proceeding *from*) That one (of the two) mentioned "totalities" (in which) "The center of gravity" (of his general state) is located...
"the factors of the first two totalities" *ARE FORMED BY THEMSELVES* (in conformity to laws) "as a result" (of *chance causes*) *NOT DEPENDING UPON (them)... While (the Factors) of "The Third Totality" (are Formed *Exclusively*) by an *intentional blending* (of the functions of the first two).
And it is (indeed) in this sense that one must understand the saying, common to all the old religious teachings, that "man receives *ALL* His (possibilities) *From* "On High"....
All Quotes (from "The Third Series") by G.I. Gurdjieff
To End (this) i wish to add (another) "Fun fact" (that was mentioned) in The chapter "Holy Planet "Purgatory" Gurdjieff just "mentioned" (That) "What is called "Soul" (He mentioned It/Described It) as "A *HIGHER* BEING-BODY" (How more "obvious" can you get?) I dont know...;s
As Jeanne De Salzmann once said (my favorite quote); "If Im not related to something Higher, I am nothing"...
"The Body is animal and the Psyche a child" "There is in us a (naturally) a permanent conflict in between the psyche and the organic body" (They have different natures: "one wishes the other do not wish") "There is a confrontation that we must reinforce voluntary by our work." (by "Conscious sufferings" and "intentional work") by "Self-observation/Self-study" (meaning? "Non-identification") "I have to make the body understand that it must obey, and not command" (WHEN/IF) "Our Attention" (of "The Divine PRESENCE of *Consciousness*) is *Present* (and) *Strongly concentrated* *IN FRONT* (before) "The various movements of our "Thinking, Feeling and Body" (THIS) "produce a substance" (similar to electricity). "It is necessary to accumulate this material a Second Body *To Be Formed*..."
Are you planning on finishing the lotd of the rings anytime soon
Once you’ve made your boots.
Give them away,
as you’ll find you don’t need them.
Great metaphor.
Thanks for sharing 😊
Ps. don’t give your leather boots to a vegan.
Big mistake, the more virtuous people our = the more offended and righteous they can be.
I have to eat my bacon in secret these days.
Hey Baron! You can’t beat a bacon sandwich, even if it had to be eaten in secret. You could always claim is was vegan bacon 😜