Exploring the Teachings of Gurdjieff: FREEDOM
These topical exchanges are for those interested in learning about the ideas of G.I. Gurdjieff, a teacher who emphasized that, as we are, we are not completed beings, that we remain unaware of our potential for transformation.
Time & Location
Jan 07, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cambridge Public Library - Rindge Room, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
About the Event
Freedom is the freedom for "I" to appear
I can be sure not of my freedom, but of carrying in myself the principle of freedom. And the answer, paradoxically, appears strikingly in what I had thought would forever be a source of bitterness: I am subject to two implacable and opposing currents, and it's the fact that they are inexorably opposed
that makes liberation possible.
Inner Octaves, Michel Conge
"The Gurdjieff teaching does not abandon "everydayness", as if ordinary daily life were something like a spiritual blank, a zone where nothing truly refined and inspiring can be approached and learned. The sense of presence -- I am here, how surprising! -- can suddenly appear during the most mundane activities. That doesn't "sacralize" such moments, but it gives them significance and ties them to any larger vision one may have of human possibility."
Roger Lipsey
This teaching is a way of engaging directly in the richness of life, while using all of the impressions of our day-to-day existence, both "negative" and "positive," both the ascending and descending currents, to contribute materially to an inner transformation.
Please let us know that you plan to attend by responding below. Underground parking at the library is available.
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