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20d •
F*ck Enlightenment - I Want REAL Freedom!
If you meet Buddha on the road . . . . . . kill him. If you think you’ve found “the answer” outside yourself—drop it. If you start idolizing a teacher—cut through that illusion If you form a concept of enlightenment—don’t trust it Opinions are like . . . (well, you know)
3 likes • 17d
I strongly agree with this video, especially in how the New Age is being currently taught. For me, I realized my spiritual efforts all my life were trying to find a solution to the internal pain I had left over from a traumatic childhood. I kept waiting for something like meditation or Tai Chi or fasting to simply wipe away all the pain I felt inside. It was only when I understood enough about how life works from my spiritual reading did I realize that I had to internally hunt down and deeply experience the pain I was avoiding to find any relief. Everywhere inside and in life, I had to consciously face (not the same as confront) the things that I instinctively wanted to avoid. It has incrementally bought me some freedom, not in a single explosive release, but in stages.
Apr 21 •
Observing the Observer
Familiar with Fourth Way work. These days I’m more interested in applied awareness than just talking about it. Curious what people here are actually practicing. What’s something that’s actually working for you?
1 like • 17d
The way I've been actively working in the past few years has been what I think of as "digesting" negative emotions within me using my consciousness. I do this by mentally flagging any external experience I have that I can feel is triggering some negative emotion inside of me. Then, when I have time, I retrigger that feeling internally using my active imagination and keep re-experiencing it like a live movie internally, all the while separating my consciousness from it so that I'm intensely observing it rather than being identified with it. The trick of it is that the intellect, in my case, wants to keep turning the internal experience into a story, or an argument with no one, and I've had to learn to keep dragging my consciousness out of these hypnotic habits and return to the painful emotional feeling I get in response to the experience. When I successfully do that enough times, the trigger ends up dissolving and the same external experiences no longer have any meaning for me. It's all been very freeing!
22d •
Holding the Tension of Opposites
Something I’ve been sitting with lately, especially with all the conversations around teachers and gurus… It feels like we keep getting pulled into the same trap.Either elevate someone completely, or tear them down completely. But I’m not sure either move gets us any closer to truth. There’s a different approach that’s been more useful for me, and it’s basically holding the tension of opposites. On one side, you can acknowledge that someone like Eckhart Tolle or Deepak Chopra may have offered something real. Something that genuinely helped people see or experience things differently. On the other side, you can also see the blind spots, contradictions, or behavior that doesn’t line up with what they’re teaching. Both can be true. The problem starts when we feel the need to collapse that tension too quickly. Either:“They’re the answer”or“They’re completely off” That move feels satisfying, but it shuts down perception. What I’ve been experimenting with instead is staying in that middle space a little longer. Not defending.Not attacking.Just noticing. What actually holds up?What feels off?What proves itself over time? And interestingly, when you don’t rush it, things start to sort themselves out. You don’t need to “decide” as fast.Clarity shows up on its own. It’s similar to what we’ve been talking about with the witness.Not stepping away from the material, but staying aware while you’re inside it. You can stay open to what’s useful…without handing over your discernment. And you can question things…without needing to burn everything down. For me, that’s been a much more stable way to navigate all of this. Less about finding the perfect teacher…and more about refining how I’m seeing. Curious how others are holding that tension right now.
1 like • 18d
Like Ouspensky said in relation to his teacher, Gurdjieff, at some point Ouspensky had to mentally separate the teachings from the teacher. The way I look at is that teachings (if accurate) are objective. The individual teacher chooses subjective ways to teach or apply them, and obviously, how to live their own life. One thing I'm also realizing a lot lately is that you can parrot the verbal part of objective teachings fluently and have zero understanding of them, like AI. So you can't always assume a well known teacher has even applied any of the teachings to their own life. But it doesn't negate the validity of the teachings as a whole, and at the same time you have to be conscious of any corruption that slips in with each individual, and use your own internal guidance and test every conclusion out yourself.
1 like • 17d
@Donald Duck That is a good way to look at it. Though taking nothing away from Gurdjieff's Work, I would also suggest that the higher teachings do need to keep getting refreshed to the modern world or else, as you say, they will become calcified. Which is what Gurdjieff did for the time. In addition, the framework and references began to age. Faster now than they did in their time. For example, it took me so many years to realize that his "rolls" that impressions are stored on in our minds were a reference to wax cylinders. Now it would be the equivalent of RAM or a sector in a HD (I'm probably already dating myself with that one). That didn't help understanding the concept.
Feb 12 •
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Welcome! Our new community is only just unboxed and unpacked so you can still smell the fresh paint. Likely things will be a bit quiet as new people join over the next few weeks. ☕ Start by introducing yourself in the comments below 👇 It will be cool to know a bit about you and your motivations for joining. 🔥 I will be putting up a series of podcasts we made over the last few months. Find them in the Classroom These should serve as context and grounds for questions and discussions. 🔓 The platform grants you access to the Classroom after your first post or interaction. You can find yourself on the leaderboard here. 👩🚀 This main area of the community will always be free for members. Later I will add paid tiers for those that want to go a bit deeper with me via live group calls and discussions. These levels will be optional. Remember without your input and ideas this is just an empty space. So don't wait for any one else to go first - it's up to YOU! Love ya! Justin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMUNITY GUIDLINES: - Please make sure you have uploaded a Bio and foto to your profile within 7days
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I'm Alex, from WA state, USA. I've been studying esoteric topics for years. I'm especially fond of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky's Fourth Way teachings, which I find has provided a framework for many other things I've studied.
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