“We have a mind-condition that makes us itch for two types of pleasure: pleasure of the senses and pleasure of the ego. When our senses are pleasantly stimulated, as when we eat something tasty, or our ego is pleasantly stimulated, as when we are praised for something we did, we feel joy, which is good. […]
Loving-kindness and MeditationPema Chodron “When we start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, we often think that somehow we’re going to improve, which is a subtle aggression against who we really are. It’s a bit like saying, “If I jog, I’ll be a much better person.” “If I had a
As Mr. Gurdjieff would say, that in the beginning of any new endeavor (from Beelzebub’s Tales) to pronounce out loud, or to yourself, “In the Name of the Father and the Son, and in the name of the Holy Ghost, Amen!” So, in striking this note at the very beginning of the enlivening and initiation
