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Like a Wheel in Perfect Balance Turning

‘Clarity. We just return over and over to this calm, unpressured Blue Sky Mind. We begin to see that it is always there, even when apparently obscured by passing clouds.” – Ta Hui As an experience, a state of perfect balance resonates closely with this vast, serene and simple state of the ‘Blue Sky Mind’. Like […]

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External Consideration – An Aspect of School Work

Editors’ Note: A student in the Fourth Way today shares what it is like to work towards external considering, an aspect of treating others consciously, in the context of school work. Working with Others – Moving Past Mechanics Self‐remembering, the pursuit of presence, is a personal experience. A person cannot nurture and sustain presence entirely […]

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Memory and Higher States

Editor’s Note: How does our experience of memory expand in higher states? This writer explores the traces of higher states upon lower centers in the  Fourth Way today. And here also is God!!! Again God!… I am man, and such as I am, in contrast to all other outer forms of animal life, created by […]

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The Four Heavenly Kings of Buddhism

Editor’s Note: Studying objective symbols such as the four heavenly gods in Buddhism, one can better understand the concept of the four “kings” of centers in the Fourth Way today. The Four Kings of Centers and the Four Heavenly Kings One of the basic concepts of the Fourth Way is the idea that man has […]

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Solving the Gordian Knot of Sleep

Editor’s Note: In the Fourth Way today, how do we untie the Gordian knot of sleep? How can lower centers convey messages from higher states? And what role does objective art or music play in awakening? Objective Art, Beauty and the King of Hearts How does an artist use the various lower centers—instinctive, moving, emotional and […]

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