Treasures: A story of how George Gurdjieff prepared J.G. Bennet for Zen
"Bennet reached Gurdjieff: Highly educated, cultivated and the answer to him was the same. He had come to ask about God and the meaning of life... "
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someone asked me what I mean by 'spiritual guide'..
Someone asked me recently what the path is, and what Iām offering as a guide, and this was my answer.
Well, I pursued the Christian path and that ended up being a search for truth and myself, and my heart.
And what Iād call the path most simply
The Zen N! #53
The Paths, 0, 1, 2 Part III
The Zen N! #52
An update from me and the ongoing series on connecting to existence.
Treasures: The Tears of Dostoevsky's Joy
This page contains selections of Fyodor Dostoevsky's theme of tears of joy in The Brother's Karamazov. This theme is referenced by Osho in Notes of a Madman, in which Osho exclaims that he has reached the heights of Dostoevsky's rapturous ecstasy.
Treasures: Zossima Consoles A Weeping Peasant Woman
"But here is one from afar." He pointed to a woman by no means old but very thin and wasted, with a face not merely sunburnt but almost blackened by exposure. She was kneeling and gazing with a fixed stare at the elder; there was something almost frenzied
Treasures: Selections of Zossima's Last Instructions
(h) Can a Man judge his Fellow Creatures? Faith to the End.
Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is