Gurdjieff and random
Read Ouspensky and Gurdjieff - also bennet etc. Still Love Beelzebub's tales which, when you're not reading it, makes one helluva doorstop . I liked Ouspensky's 'The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution' but otherwise found him a bit dry. One of my best friends was a close student of Pierre Elliot (raised in Ouspensky's house) and attended Claymont in West VA - a school founded by JG Bennet - a former brit Intel officer who met Gurdjieff in India and became a student of his.
Gurdjieff was a Sufi. (felt like I'd discovered something when I figured that out - but everybody just went - 'doh') They've got a whole thing about 'functioning in any atmosphere' (kind of like the Daoists - some schools anyway)...
I've been thinking of Bagua (very intentionally Daoist) myself but have been finding new depths in Taijiquan (Old Yang - Yang, Shou Hou - but I here good things about Chen - they say its the original - but others say it came from Wutang..who knows ) and also feeling a pull to work more with pranayam. It's a big plate, but it'll only hold so much, well.
fab dive today - made friends with a cormorant (posted elsewhere).
Namas te'
Read Ouspensky and Gurdjieff - also bennet etc. Still Love Beelzebub's tales which, when you're not reading it, makes one helluva doorstop . I liked Ouspensky's 'The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution' but otherwise found him a bit dry. One of my best friends was a close student of Pierre Elliot (raised in Ouspensky's house) and attended Claymont in West VA - a school founded by JG Bennet - a former brit Intel officer who met Gurdjieff in India and became a student of his.
Gurdjieff was a Sufi. (felt like I'd discovered something when I figured that out - but everybody just went - 'doh') They've got a whole thing about 'functioning in any atmosphere' (kind of like the Daoists - some schools anyway)...
I've been thinking of Bagua (very intentionally Daoist) myself but have been finding new depths in Taijiquan (Old Yang - Yang, Shou Hou - but I here good things about Chen - they say its the original - but others say it came from Wutang..who knows ) and also feeling a pull to work more with pranayam. It's a big plate, but it'll only hold so much, well.
fab dive today - made friends with a cormorant (posted elsewhere).
Namas te'