a 'work' site; infection with _the_ teaching urge; could be, by graceful texts of P.D. Ouspensky; it happens when people _are_ but also when they are _not_ e.g. bloggers, writers, teachers etc., i.e. & so on down the scale. Symptoms stronger if such had the privilege of enjoying erudition of Gurdjieff, or had their understanding nourished by Nicoll's Commentaries' unmistakable feel. Maybe during childhood. Maybe some are to experience the symptom, _yet_... time is relative.

Monday, February 21, 2005

advanced teaching

advanced teaching, definition. What you get at by doing 'base' teaching as given, not demanding more than base (not very fortunate adjective) teaching. In that sense advanced teaching is everything there is and is equal to base teaching and vice versa. Yeah, it does not make much sense (only) defining it. Practically, could be defined by level (just) above you, and is thus different for different persons & situations. Researchers report that they always find it connected to will, and doing, and the like.

advanced teaching, uses. If you have faith, i.e. you believe in the messenger of the Work, or, most important, in what comes out of yourself, through yourself in moments that are typically different than 'ordinary' moments if you believe it. Why is faith, belief, so often talked about? Precisely from opposite reasons than in church. It is stressed because higher teaching is here, yet it LACKS normally present element of compulsion, of disregarding your own discernment/decision. Believe it or not. That's it. THAT why they who DO believe are lucky, for they CAN release potential that is hidden in the higher teaching. If you recognize presence of the higher teaching you are blessed. If you make your aim to remember it often, you multiply your blessing.

advanced teaching, example. There is an Order of Misery. When you Awaken, you won't want to participate in it any longer. You won't tolerate misery in its thousand forms in yourself. That is what those mysterious passages about Negative Emotion in Pompe were saying. There is more to it but I forget. Something about: to awaken from misery = to awaken from sleep. Something about: the key to it is will, and doing.

At first we study many aspects of the teaching. Then, the teaching becomes discernible in greater cohesion and synthesis and pithyfulness. That, then, would be theoretical definition of 'advanced teaching', so called.

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