Three Lines of Work in a School

Three Lines of Work in a School - (4522)

In classic teachings from Gurdjieff there are three lines of work a member of a school takes part in.

1.) First Line: Work for one's own awakening

2.) Second Line: Work to help others awaken.

3.) Third Line: Work to help the teacher and maintain the school.

The three lines of work are best done in balance. The three lines are complete - they in general cover all aspects of the work in a school or centre.

To leave out one of these aspects means to not be working in the fullest way...

In the beginning we only work with the first line. Later we include the second, and later the third. That's the general order.

The longer we are in a school the more we can expand to cover all three lines of work.

If we just concentrate on the first line we become selfish and then stagnate. If we just concentrate on the third line we become too identified with the school and then we fall back in our awakening.

If we concentrate on the second line only we forget ourselves and sooner or later run out of inspiration and and light to help others with and we unbalance the school interfering with the work of the instructor, creating unbalance which hinders and confuses the work of all.

We have a duty to work in the second and third lines, because it was that work that brought us into the school and changed our life. We have the duty to return what we received otherwise we remain ungrateful and stagnate sooner or later... True right? Ingratitude stagnates merits of the heart...

End (4522).

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