June 26, 2007 Lost Coin minutes

Arlene reported on her recent experience in India at a meeting of the Mind and Life Institute, a weeklong conference in Dharamsala with the Dalai Lama and neuroscientists. To know compassion one must feel other's suffering. What is consciousness? Begins and has no ending. 10 presenters, alternate years in U.S. and in India. Arlene then went to Tibet where a training school is being established.

This week is the 11th of 12 sessions. Daniel will be here next week for the 12th session, then he will be away the night of July 12, though we are encouraged to meet without him.

Gurdjieff's "Teskooano" telescope, a camera lens, will enable us to see * sooner*; like a giant eyeball in the sky, over the ocean of our awareness, seeing all.  A camera doesn't have an element of kindness, it is without emotion. "Thinking about" observation is a thought layer over direct observation. Daniel directed us to directly perceive our body awareness at that moment. It's not observation unless there is a field of observation. One must not identify. Use camera while acting. samadi (bliss) vs. working samadi (a witness is present)

Question: How can I observe myself more often?

Answer: a 3-5 per cent change will make a tremendous difference in your life: you will notice a different kind of energy. Over time environment is brighter, color, delineation, form, sound, etc.

Understand it so much better if understand it in others. Wish others could see themselves.

Sikora SPI enneagram test is helpful. www.sikorispi.com

*Esoteric teaching* 1) held back on purpose or 2) things can't be understood at all

Lost in maze of associative thought. *Esoteric* means, unusual, hard to find, hidden or known only to initiates. Daniel withholds only in timing of release of teaching.

With a teacher, over time, learn how to *be*, a body language; consciousness is left out of most religions.

This teaching is esoteric, there is an esoteric Christianity, esoteric Judaism, esoteric Buddhism.

*Blame*, someone else's fault?even our own inadequacy?a negative emotion. See drain of energy. See loss of consciousness. Strategic view stops drain.

Maturity accepts life as it is, accepts blame exists. Compassion for self, for other's suffering.

*Fear, blame, greed*, mechanical aspects exist in all three centers.

Question: Acceptance can bring despair. What then?

*Greed* when always want things to be different than they are; constant dissatisfaction; with others, don't handle others, handle yourself.
