The Fourth Way and Esoteric Traditions
The being of two people can be more different from each other than the being of a mineral and an animal. – G. I. Gurdjieff The idea of states of being is an esoteric one. Human life is not lived from one fixed inner condition. A person passes through many states during the course of a […]
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Rome was not built in a day. But it couldn’t have been built if someone did not work on it every single day. Similarly, being is not built overnight. It is a combination of all the efforts, even on the mundane days. Especially on the mundane days. Sometimes, when I make a New Year’s resolution, […]
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How does ‘being’ get created? To understand how we can create being, we can look through the lens of philosophy and through the different traditions or psychology and creativity. Being grows as we live our life, by the choices we make, the habits we form and every belief we adopt. It comes through facing obstacles and opportunities, and, most of all, by what we experience. Difficulties serve as necessary experiences […]
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George Gurdjieff informs us that conscience is to emotion what consciousness is to intellect. Both are a summation or entirety, one of feeling, the other of thought. As a contemporary spiritual teacher tells us, self-remembering, or presence, is always right action. He also said that conscience has to do with right action. The difference lies […]
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Fields of the One Beyond the skin, where dust remembers dust, a few souls turn toward a hidden music. No road, no border, no name can bind them— they meet where silence kindles into flame. Bodies fade like evening light on water, yet what they are was never held by form. In those boundless fields […]
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To be, or not to be, that is the question. – William Shakespeare Indeed, this is the biggest question in one’s life: In this moment, am I awake or asleep? Where do I want to be, in a state of awakening or in a state of sleep? Am I present to what I am seeing, hearing, […]
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Waves wash over you, full of Doubts and hopes from mind and heart that drag and pull you, Each its own story to tell. Let them go, let them pass. Like the leaves on a wintry tree, Like the cocoon that would cling to an ordinary caterpillar, Like snow on a summer’s mountain top. For […]
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There are four states of consciousness, according to the Fourth Way. The fourth state is rarely achieved by people in their lifetime. Some conscious beings have reported moments of the fourth state as a life-changing experience. It is in your grasp. Higher centers are a reality if you can awaken them, as they exist only in higher states.
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We utilize the tools of the Fourth Way of awakening with the help of a practical school of truth. In this process, we transform our being, and our clarity expands. We become able to gratefully accept our essence. Then, living in essence, we are free from fear.
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What do we mean by ‘being’? A person with experience in a particular field possesses extensive knowledge and the ability to apply it effectively. They have the practical skills to put their knowledge into action. They also have the experience to understand the challenges and obstacles involved in achieving a desired outcome. Such a person […]
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The line of being is the accumulated effect of efforts to awaken, the ability to be the words, i.e., to put theories of the system into practice, not just to know them. – Robert Burton
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These, then, are five ways to work with a ‘negative’ situation: (1) to change the situation; (2) to change the machine’s reaction to the situation; (3) to separate from the situation; (4) to separate from oneself; and (5) to turn the focus of one’s attention toward something higher. They do not replace each other but rather build on one another.
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