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.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Q. Can you tell us more regarding this Work?

A. No. Since your interest is not genuine. Even God could not tell you something if your interest is nto genuine. But I'm going to try to, since some of your readers might actually understand what is being said. It is like clearing accounts. Just think of the bank robbery or something you see on TV. Voila! There's nothing left on the accounts. You have zero point zero. This Work is like purification. Have you ever applied to some So and So in the Matter Such and Such? I'm just asking because people like you are extremely fond of using phrases such as rite of passage and reality test and so on without having a notion of what they meean. Now imagine if you can that your application is rejected. Now imagine this being repeated several times through the years. What comes about? You are so loaded with phrases, you should know. Purification, of course. Big purification. Purification comes about. The person in question is being purified.

I think this is the point. Like Moses, you have to befriend the rock of obstacles by hitting it with a stick, until the water flows. The water is well known purifying agent. Passive, as it were, but pre-eminently - ouch, I almost said pre-adamitically - effective. Thus NEW CHANCE is created. By means of purification, that is.

A. You are a well-known writer in Work cir-

Q. Bullshit. Just stop, now. I'd rather be dead than well-known writer. Personally, I have other needs. Beyond personal sphere, what has to be done is to create a new chance, a new possibility, a possibility that didn't existed before or was hidden or blocked. For one example among many, creation of a small, not too ambitious working group would be highly recommended. An then you should see these smart-face rites-of-passage taking their tail between the legs! You could only see their backs, I'm afraid, while they crawled away, as if you mentioned Devil to a Christian. But let's rather go back to the issue.

Q. Thank you for this captivating interview.

A. You will know you have been talking too much when you won't be able to rememeber what it was that you said. Weng-Lin-Yuen, for example, puts it succintly: Ten thousand things, he says, borrowed their name, he says, from the Great Mother, he says.

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