Salik,
On Gurdjieff, I followed so little of his traces, and don't have a good sense
of him, but I recall thoroughly enjoying a showing of the movie "Meetings With
Remarkable Men", at the Olympia Theater uptown on Broadway in NYC.
It seemed his practice was eclectic: one from Column A, one from Column B, etc.
It seemed untrue to all the traditions borrowed from, and unseemly when all
put together.
I looked at some P. D. Ouspensky, Gurdjieff's teacher or inspiration (?), but I
didn't get far: I was already a Yogi, and on the way to Zen practice. So much
for relatively more wild-eyed ideas, with no clear line of practice. Plus, I
had begun a career as an academic Philosopher, and dropped it after the first
blush with genuine Ch'an practice. Pretty fickle!
We get lucky sometimes: the way was clear, for this poor slob.
;-)
--Joe
> "salik888" <novelidea8@...> wrote:
>
> Joe
>
> I am a mureed in the Naqshbandi Tariqa, was intitiated, given intstruction in
> Fiqh, Zikr,Wird, pratices, etc . . . I actually practiced Islam for a number
> of years, had several Shaykhs. I have long-standing connections, involvement
> in Gurdjieff Work Groups. Of course Gurdjieff is sort of a Central Asian
> school. But I rarely go into the Sufi community anymore. Zen is home for me .
> . .
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