BASH

Notes to myself disguised as posts.

[BASH @thebashonu]

The things that matter the most:
Being successful and getting rich
Mastery of photography and women
Thinking (life long study: gurdjief, Carl Jung and Neville Goddard)
Increasing Consciousness & awareness
Courage and love
Entering sleep properly

[diego @EsotericWisdom_]

How to LooksMax with Spiritual Science:

(Rudolf Steiner)

Practice reverence and devotion.
Learn to wait in tranquility.
Wake up needing nothing and nobody.
Stop lying.
Withhold judgment of others.
Replace every critical thought with several thoughts of appreciation.
Cultivate awe toward nature, truth, and the universe.

[KaizerRev @Kaizerrev]

"Great artists steal.. I steal a little bit from everyone."

- Nick Fuentes

[Gurdjieff Studies @GurdjieffStudy]

"Always do only one thing at a time, that of the present moment. But do it well, be in it entirely… . Too bad if meanwhile business worth many millions waits at the door..."

[🪽 @bvnnyvx]

yes I’m a perverted horny freak but my heart is pure

[゙゙ @reallutherr]

you should probably stop looking so good i’m running out of innocent things to say

[lizzy @mewliiyss]

mi fantasía sexual es saber como se toca la persona que me gusta

[Gurdjieff lore @Megalocosmos]

A man, who was not a pupil, asked Gurdjieff what he was trying to do.

“I try to make human beings,” Gurdjieff replied.

- Edwin Wolfe -

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

The most mind-blowing fact about reality is that Jon Jones worked harder than Khabib.

Hard work accumulated over many lifetimes transforms into talent. That's why Jones could start late, skip training to do cocaine, and still have a record that makes Khabib's look like nothing.

Reality only looks unfair to man because man is flawed. Look closer, and you'll see that it is very fair. Look at the world vertically, across many lifetimes.

[Damon @DamonDent33]

George Gurdjieff’s Self Remembering: An Ultimate Guide — Richard Ruach

SELF OBSERVATION: THE FOUNDATION

Self Observation is the prerequisite to Self Remembering. It is the study of the human machine and its three cylinders: intellectual, emotional, and moving.

This is Personality: the human mask shaped by heredity and the outside world. (More detail in the comments.)

Self Remembering is NOT Self Observation. It rests on a different teaching: the distinction between Personality and Essence.

ESSENCE is the “Divine spark,” the eternal element that passes from life to life. Personality is formed in this lifetime; Essence is perennial.

Self Observation is a technique. Self Remembering is a state of consciousness and being.

THE FOUR LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Gurdjieff describes four levels:

1. Sleep.
2. Ordinary, everyday consciousness.
3. The awakened state (sometimes called Self Remembering).
4. Objective consciousness.

The technique for entering Self Remembering is DIVIDED ATTENTION (see diagram in comments).

DIVIDED ATTENTION: THE KEY

Imagine someone looking at a tree. An ordinary person sees the tree, but may not notice the representations and associations arising within them.

Divided attention means remaining aware of your inner world while also attending to your surroundings. Consciousness becomes BIDIRECTIONAL rather than moving in one direction; eventually, it can become MULTIDIRECTIONAL.

For example, imagine suddenly becoming sad while walking down the street, without knowing why. Through Self Observation, you would recognize why the sadness arose.

THE SECRET THIRD THING

With sustained practice, you may sense a “secret third thing” (Essence) observing the process: the arising and entering of an impression.

This is neither thought nor emotion. You are turning away from the human machine (Persona).

RECOGNIZING SELF REMEMBERING

P.D. Ouspensky describes its “flavor” as similar to being a child visiting a place you have never been before—not nostalgia or the “inner child.”

The state is slippery: you can enter it and lose it without noticing. Someone speaks to you, and suddenly it is gone.

Do not force or manipulate it. Remain as natural as possible.

Richard Ruach offers another technique, ROLLING ATTENTION, to maintain the state. See the comments for my notes and his fuller explanation.

THE GENIUS MIND AND THE FILTER

A genius can filter out distractions and concentrate on one thought. A chess master, for example, filters out bad moves rather than calculating every possibility.

But an extremely strong filter can disconnect you from reality. Intellectual people therefore struggle with Self Remembering.

The aim is not to strengthen the filter, but to LOOSEN it, allowing consciousness to expand and experience the world. This may help explain why geniuses sometimes have breakthroughs while dreaming.

THE EFFECTS OF SELF REMEMBERING

The area of consciousness expands and more impressions enter. You notice things previously overlooked; perhaps you hear something new or the world seems more vivid.

When looking at another person, an image or reaction may arise within you. Ruach describes this as not coming from you, but as that person’s internal world. He calls it “Extra-Normal Phenomenological Perception” (like telepathy, but not exactly).

Do NOT get caught up in this. Thinking about “having telepathy” can pull you out of Self Remembering.

BEING-PARTKDOLG-DUTY: THE DEATH OF THE OLD SELF

Everything in the human machine has arrived from an external place. Through Self Remembering, you attempt to draw solar force into the machine and reorganize it into something else.

Gurdjieff calls this “Being-Partkdolg-Duty” in Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson.

This is death: the old self is replaced by Essence.

It brings to mind Christ’s words:

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
— John 3:3

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

If something is wrong, fix it. But train yourself not to worry. Worry fixes nothing.

—Ernest Hemingway

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

It's not beauty that makes us love, but love that makes us see beauty.

—Dostoevsky

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

The greatest advice you will ever hear.

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

You need an escape plan, a prison break from the life you've made.

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

Changing the topic according to their understanding level is the smartest game a man plays.

—Virginia Woolf

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

All of Scripture speaks of the terrifying possibility of losing the battle against your own mind.

That is how serious the struggle really is.

Efforts don’t count. Only super efforts.

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

Massive amounts of money is coming right at you.

[Bob @iwasvinegar]

Don't let my raging boner distract you from my kind eyes and affectionate soul

[Beans @137beans]

holy shit you can alter reality with your mind

[vm @sunshine_soull]

when you’re in love with the moon..
no star distracts you

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

Speak your mind, little nigga.