Contributions From Gurdjieff to be taken into account

George Gurdjieff

Carlos Mora Vanegas

It is impossible to remind himself. And people do not remember because he wants to live only through the mind. And other body parts have no desire to recordar.George Gurdjieff

There are significant legacy Gurdjieff's teachings can not be ignored, on the contrary, there are many teachings, reflections to be attentive, alert and identified with its scope and percussion locks, allows us to prune increase our growth as a person, and more spiritual, take the opportunity of knowing that life has given us.

As is well known and so his biographers say, George Gurdjieff was a master mystic, philosopher, writer and composer, who called himself "just a Dance Teacher."

It reminds us, Silvia? Alvarez Verdugo, who was demanding, but also generous and protective Gurdjieff those who were forced to adapt to a discipline that at times seemed inconsistent. But for them, this powerful spiritual teacher was the only hope of development and liberation. He was the living contact with the sources.

He was the living contact with the ancient sources of wisdom and remarkable intelligence guided by the practical ways in which nothing can be understood if it is experienced by itself.

Twenty years had taken Gurdjieff crystallize and organize the fragments of knowledge gained and felt ready to gather disciples. And he did with his particular style

Gurdjieff used dance, gymnastics, hard practice of concentration, meditation ... There is a history, that the December 13, 1923 held its first public performance of sacred dances, theater on the Champs Elysees, Paris impressing the public .

Wikipedia gives us that born in the late nineteenth century in Russian Armenia, his main work was to present and transmit the teachings of Fourth Way in the Western world was a master mystic, philosopher, writer and composer, who called himself "a Master simple Dances. "On the mixed origin, spoke several languages: Russian, Turkish, Greek and Armenian

It says on it, that the true meaning of Gurdjieff's work is a source of discussion. It is also recognized as a charismatic teacher who fundamentally brought new knowledge to the West which, being of an extraordinary level and concealed, still arouse interest and curiosity.

It is said that Gurdjieff is frequently discredited by practices that employ some of his followers, which were divided after his death in different groups, each claiming to be the only and genuine disciples of him and therefore have the real secret knowledge to achieve the "desirable" harmonious development of man Gurdjieff was proposed to spread throughout much of his life.

Among some thoughts and teachings as we bring significant Silvia? Alvarez are: For Gurdjieff, the man is a plural: "There is no I - said - or rather there are hundreds, thousands of small 'I's' in each of us. We are divided internally, but we can not recognize the plurality of our being, but through observation and study. At some point is a self that acts, the next moment is another self. We do not operate harmoniously because our selves, are contradictory. At birth, the child is "essence", a being with hope. But as it grows, it loses its "special" because of actual experiences. It builds up the personality, our social mask or coating, which stifles the essence. Although essential, the personality is, in most cases, a series of prejudices, attitudes, dreams, ways of handling and neurosis, "aligned with respect to the arbitrary nature of . "Invaded by the legion of selves', does not allow man the opportunity to develop your true self, that to explain what is a higher being.

Gurdjieff spoke of different stages that can live a human being: "There are several states of consciousness: 1) The dream, in which our machine continues to operate at very low pressure. 2) The waking state, in which we are now. These two states are the only ones who know the common man. 3) What is called self-consciousness. It is the time a man realizes so much of himself, as his machine. We have it by flashes, but only for flare. There are moments when you realize not only what you are doing but doing it yourself. You can see both the 'I' here as 'I am here', both the anger and the self 'he is angry. Call it self-remembering, if you like. Now, when you realize the full and constantly' I 'and what you are doing, and what' I 'is, you become aware of itself. Self-awareness is the third state. This is a high point, because only from this third state man is able to develop its core and become a man No. 4, balanced and complete.

You then have the opportunity to build your soul and other bodies (men from No. 5 to 7), to meet the top destinations of cosmic evolution, through access to a state called "Objective Consciousness."

Gurdjieff pointed out that the man is a complex machine that "eats and excretes prints behavior" and eats food, air and impressions sensitive to power five "brains" or "centers" that operate independently: intellectual, emotional, motor, instinctive and sexual. Each performs its functions without regard to others, so the unconscious human machine is inefficient and is trapped in the "mechanics". The three basic centers (intellectual, emotional and instinctive - engine) determine the type of man gurdjieffiana without development of consciousness, according to which one is dominant in each person: "Man number one," motor "Man number two," emotional , "Man number three," intellectual. While we believe we have one "mind", in reality each of the centers have their own. And this categorization is more complex still because, in turn, each center has its own divisions. The proper "attention", achieved with effort and determination, makes us realize that we are operating center and take the path of harmonious and simultaneous development of body, emotion and intellect. The "inner stop" of thoughts is one of the exercises for the "self-remembering" that leads to the understanding of this process.

Gurdjieff also brings reminding us Silvia? Alvarez, that the "attention", the "self-observation" and the "memory of himself," let the man get rid of the identifications and imaginations that keep you mired in a "state of hypnotic sleep. " "Only one man in the highest state of being is a complete man. All others are mere fractions of a man. Needed foreign aid will come from teachers or the system I am following. The starting points of this self-observation are: 1) That we are not one. 2) You have no control over ourselves. We do not control our own mechanism. 3) We remind ourselves. If I say, 'I'm reading a book' and I did not realize that ' I 'am reading, that is one thing, but when I am aware that' I 'am reading, that is self-remembering. " For Gurdjieff "everything is material in the Universe": "The Absolute is so material, ponderable and measurable as the moon or man. If the Absolute is God, then God can be weighed and measured, settled into its constituent elements, "calculated" and made ... Therefore, the Great Knowledge is more materialistic than materialism ... I repeat: everything in the universe is material. "

Gurdjieff also makes observations on: "The black magic does not mean in any way evil magic ... Nobody ever does anything for the love of evil, or in the interest of evil. Everyone always acts in the interest of good as he understands ... The Magic Black may be altruistic, can pursue the good of humanity ... But what deserves to be called black magic always has a well-defined feature. This character is the tendency to use people for any purpose, even the best of purposes, without their without the knowledge and understanding, whether to inspire in them faith and infatuation, either acting on them by fear. "Ultimately the most important in the teaching of Gurdjieff as they say, is the practice, and his irrefutable demonstration of unfortunate and abnormal state that is the human