August 18, 2009
 
Tradition of Gurdjieff (G)- the Fourth Way was a secret society and was very hard to get into.  Zen has monastic rules that are difficult to get through.  G was born in a country that kept changing, at times was Persia and others was Russia.  He formed a group to search for serious answers and he was serious in his nature.  In time he found much of what he was looking for in Suffiism, southern Tibet/Northern Afganistan.  What is real and what is false is what he was looking for.
 
Good spiritual knowledge- don't trust people (don't mistrust people either), make it a rare occurance and trust and love with evidence.  Faithfully study knowledge and keep it for yourself.  You need to learn it first and only, then you could give it to others.  Daniel studied with the lineage of intellectual Europeans.  He learned about mind, it is something you partake of it is universial.  Mu is emptiness is mind.   We looked at one state of mind last week and will look at another tonight.  We fluctuate in our mind states all day.
 
Story:  A person goes to find a holy person in Tibet to find the secret of life, and living forever.  He eventually finds a teacher and asks what is the secret of life?  The teacher replies; dont eat any food you like, dont engage in any activity you enjoy, don't be with attractive people.  The student says then I will live forever?  The teacher says no, but it will seem like it.
 
One of the most important parts of learning is stop believing what you believe.  The beliefs we have are mostly based on fear.  It is mechanical and it ruins your life.  As we study enjoy your life, less fear, less inertia, less anger.  Don't turn love and trust into a political correctness, operate on evidence and be real.
 
We will have a tour of the mind from the inside not the outside.  You can put your mind in any state you want.  Daniel had us be sleepy and then happy, you can chance your state of mind.
 
Be conscious of what you are doing, be present and genuine and if you are being nice know if you are doing it to get something or being genuinly nice to that person.
 
Bardo #2 ANIMAL REALM (INERTIA)
Daniel takes these states for the living not the dying.  Animal realm is one level up from HELL REALM.  Be aware of these realms as you are in them.  This one is couch potato like.  The place where a person feels they have no energy , everything in this is like an effort, no energy in this life ror themselves or others.  Describe the state you are in, no effort, is mechanical, most is due to fear, and it anesthetizes yourself, it is lazy.  He had us become this state,  then had us leave the judgement behind and see what is behind it.  Relaxed, wanting our own power, just being.
 
There is nothing you do that is bad unless you have a psychiatric illness.  We are taught that htere is some part of you that is bad, you ae not bad but you are asleep.  Be conscious about what you are doing and it is good.  When mind is mechanical it can cause pain, being conscious frees you up.  Honor your life and be one with it.  Trust your own spirit.
