The Fifth Way

We are awake already but this is not fully realized.

For man number four, still struggling towards his destination: The Fourth Way. For higher man, the arrived man:The Fifth Way. P.D. Ouspensky

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Liz D'Aste replied to Liz D'Aste's discussion 'Who is the 'other'? Another I ?'
Hi Colin Ta for another interesting post! That quote from Trigant Burrows captured my imagination. Many greats have said that we confuse the word for the experience of the thing itself. I suppose that is because as egos we live in the past and the…
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Hi Liz I’ve been thinking about your last post off and on while all the distractions of life went by... Oneness of Being... Herbert Read quotes Trigant Burrow: ‘the organism of human beings in its primary integral functioning is one…
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It's okay with me that Ouspensky says, The Fifth Way is the ultimate Way, the Way that includes and replaces all others. I am not Ouspensky and I don't know what he had in mind when he wrote those words anymore than I know in which state he was. To some it may appear that includes and replaces stand in contradiction to one another. This is not how it appears to me. Lao-Tzu wrote: The space between Heaven and Earth, seat of the Principle, the place from where its virtue acts, is like a bellows, like the bag of a bellows of which Heaven and Earth would be the two boards, which empties without exhausting itself, which moves itself externally without cease.
This is all we can understand of the Principle and of its action as producer. To try to detail it further using words and numbers would be a waste of time. Let us stick to this grand idea.


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James Parkinson

Preamble to Precepts 4 Replies

THE FIFTH WAYThe 5th Way is the ultimate Way, the Way that includes and replaces all others. For a man number 4, still struggling towards his destination: the 4th Way. For higher man, the arrived…Continue

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Started by James Parkinson in Fifteen Precepts. Last reply by James Parkinson Jul 28, 2008.

James Parkinson

First Precept 16 Replies

The Yale University Library hold papers from P.D. Ouspensky's estate. A sealed envelope on which was written: Not to be opened until the year 2007 was among them. This envelop was opened last year.…Continue

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Started by James Parkinson in Fifteen Precepts. Last reply by James Parkinson Dec 14, 2008.

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Colin Blundell

Going Meta...

What do we get from the past, from our teachers? Just a lot of ideas & indications, possibilities & things that drive us onwards. It’s like Walt Whitman said:-



I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,

I but advance a moment only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.

I am a man who, hurrying along without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you and then averts his face,

Leaving it to you to prove and define it,

Expecting the…
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Posted by Colin Blundell on October 6, 2009 at 8:28am

Stephen Eisel

"The Tamarind Tree"

There was a holy man sitting/meditating under the shade of a tamarind tree. Narada ( the one who informs the Absolute of the progress of his disciples - the faithful) was doing his rounds and got into a conversation with this Mahatma, who asked him to take a message to the Absolute.

When the answer came back in a few weeks time, when he was on his rounds again, Narada didn't want to tell the Mahatma. Narada said it would depress him very much if he was given the answer. The answer was that… Continue

Posted by Stephen Eisel on May 26, 2009 at 4:34pm — 3 Comments

Dietmar Jokisch

Having questions

When I think about "my being attracts my life", what is it, that attracts life?

My thoughts about life? My feelings about me? Or a mixture of both?

But that's not being, as I understand it. Well, actually, I have no idea,

what being really is. So, how can I say, what it's not?



All I can say is, I'm not clear about this. I cannot describe being.

Do I have to? Maybe the question is just, how to stop thinking about being?



Sometimes, when listening to… Continue

Posted by Dietmar Jokisch on September 4, 2008 at 3:53pm — 3 Comments

Curtis Taylor

Reassessing the Fourth Way. Transforming my Work.

The Fourth Way is a system presented by people who followed Gurdjieff, an extraordinary man. Generations later, this system is still being compiled by experimenters, believers, and seekers of truth. The Fourth Way, as it appears to be presented today, indicates if I do it right I will wake up, be enlightened, have peace, and obtain being of a higher level. I will know I am doing the Work if I am excelling at remembering myself, being super aware, being transparent and cooperative… Continue

Posted by Curtis Taylor on April 23, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

 
 
 

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