There are truly many different methods to help us realise our essence.
As Gurdjieff said it is often easier to describe what the essence is not than describing what it is.
At the end of the day knowing what the essence boils down to an experience. We know what it is through our own experience of it.
We can have a good idea of what it is, without hte experience of it we don't fully know,
This simple method leads us into our own personal experience of our essence.
We have to start by looking at ourselves becasue our essence is us and is inisde of us.
We start by looking at our personality, seeing that we are more than our body, our culture, our upbringing, our job and the different roles that we play in life: father, mother, manager, citizen, commitee member, community support workjer etc. etc.
Then we see that we are not our emotions, nor our thoughts as they come and go. Then what is left thta we can call ourselves? Our essence. Which is a space of awareness, witnessing our life's circumstances, events and inner processes.
Within that space emerges universal, timeless qualities...
That is also us, that is also our essence.
When we experience this, that is when we feel the awareness and inner space we have experienced our essence.
Then bit by bit through huge efforts of remembering we can shed other partially true identies and take up for real the one always true ever constant and permanent identity - which is our essence.
End (5777).
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