Tales of Bodhidharma

A bearded Indian monk, the third son of a South Indian Brahmin king, appeared one day at the Chinese port of Canton and made his way from there to  Nanking, near the mouth of the Yangtze River. He was responding to an invitation from China’s Emperor Wu of the...

Control and Influence (Part 3)

(Part 2 can be found here) The Role of Fear Take a moment now and recall the experience of feeling out of control … realizing you have no influence … recognizing that what will happen depends mostly on luck, that you have no personal control over what will occur …...

Control and Influence (Part 2)

(Click here for Part 1 of this series). As I am exploring this subject, I see in my mind flashes of interactions with people over many years. There are situations I wanted to unfold in specific directions but that met resistance or outright denial from others. The...

Control and Influence (Part 1)

A number of years ago I had surgery for which I agreed to a spinal, rather than a general, anesthetic. In the recovery room I lay on a bed looking at my legs. I had the strange feeling that I was alive, warm, supple from my waist up. Below that there was a sense of...

Issue #1

Subscribe Issue #1 — April 2021 “There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid forwith a dissatisfaction.” The Gurdjieff Legacy Gurdjieff has no precedent. This becomes crystal clear when we step back and take a comprehensive view of his...

Issue #2

Subscribe Issue #2 — May 2021 “Like what it does not like” ~ Gurdjieff Kundabuffer Some believe that kundabuffer was implanted by an operation carried out on mankind at the very beginning—when three-brained beings first peopled the planet Earth. It’s an...