Skip to main content

Who are You? A List? No/Yes? I don't Know? - (5289)

A list right?


A list of qualities: virtues and defects, a list of titles, a list of roles, a list of points of view, a list of styles, a list of experiences, a list of sufferings, a list of dislikes and likes, a list of strengths and weaknesses, a list of skills, a list of abilities, a list of victories and defeats, and the list goes on... (pardon the pun).


That's life - things accumulating, lists forming and filling out, experience and debts accruing...


Death is list deconstructing...list erasing... 


If we want to know ourselves in real values of Being we will know ourselves in the struggle to die psychologically and we will know others when they are in their fight to die psychologically.


Maybe it is only in difficult circumstances that we get to know ourselves and others. The rest is just more or less you know West Australian strawberries which look nice but taste insipid because the soil is too sandy, lacking the nutrients which give strawberries their wild and exotic flavour.


In Gnosis we know we are not a list. A list is memory. Lose our memory and our lists will go but we still are, we still exist, we are still present. However, it is so difficult to know who someone is in essence and who we are in essence.


We have to perceive... Let the essence, our intuition, our centres feel who we are or who the other person is.


When we try to know ourselves or someone we get to know lists. But what about if we don't, if we get to know ourselves or them outside of lists. 


Maybe they are the vibration of them, which is a reflection of their inner quality. Difficult to feel our own vibration isn't it? Maybe they are their particular psychological nature, we can perceive our own psychological flavour, which changes often during the day.


However all these things are still not all that there is. There is the esoteric, the ontological, but that is really hard to find out, say if we do, it adds a dimension of respect in dealing with the human being, which can be good or can be inconvenient especially when we cross that line of respect into disrespect. 


Or is the mystery of not knowing, a better experience than knowing? Maybe yes, maybe no or maybe a bit of mystery and a bit of knowing is best?  


End (5289).

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Attention with Mind, Attention with Essence - (5197)

These two attentions are different. Attention with the mind tires the brain. and reduces the flow of life into steps, where it is inevitable that the narration of the mind begins to take over. With the awareness of steps comes a certain tediousness and the feeling of the flow of life leaving us behind. With the attention of mind very little of what's behind events comes to us... Attention with the essence brings the power of presence, in other words brings a certain depth and continuity of flow  Attention with the essence doesn't tire or strain and opens doorways into perceiving what is behind events and the thoughts and feelings that appear within us. It allows us also to flow with the flow of life, which is a pleasant feeling. Conclusion, make the essence bring attention to outer and inner life. End (5197).
2 comments
Read more

The Sacred Substance Askokin - (962)

Introduction In simple terms, the sacred Askokin substance is the result of the mercury and the sulphur. It is the transmuted energy that crystallises to form the internal bodies (astral, mental and causal). In other words, it is the transmutation of our sexual energies. The Abrustdonis’ and ‘Helkdonis that Gurdjieff mentions in the excerpt below, taken from “Belzeebub’s Tales to His Grandson” are none other than the elements of mercury and the sulphur so spoken about in Alchemy. Excerpt on the Sacred Substance Askokin “I first learned that the destiny of beings arising on this planet of yours is chiefly to elaborate—by means of the process of their existence—the vibrations required by Nature for the maintenance of those former parts of the planet now called Moon and Anulios, when, do you remember, I became worthy personally to converse for the second time with His Conformity the then still Angel, but now Archan...
3 comments
Read more

Wisdom from the Movie “Kingdom of Heaven” - (2168)

Introduction There are some movies that leave you with some pieces of advice that at point or another in your life or in the lives of others prove useful. This movie: “Kingdom of Heaven” was terrible to watch (too many battle scenes and people dying) but offered some very useful messages. In this post, I have presented a few, that have come in handy at point or another. Just to give you a bit of context, the movie is about the crusades, where the French and English were trying to defend the “Holy City” – Jerusalem from Islamic occupation. The topic of religion and God is a constant theme in the movie. It is very violent though, matching it frankly, quite awful to watch. Your Soul is in Your Keeping Alone An interesting dialogue between the French appointed king of Jerusalem and French Knight, the protagonist of the movie. Note, the king wears that metal mask because he has leprosy. King Baldwin I...
Post a Comment
Read more