The meeting commenced with a reading on ‘knowledge and being’ from ‘In search of the miraculous’ Chapter 4. p64. where Ouspensky explains the importance of understanding the relationship between knowledge and being. For the level of being to grow it needs not only knowledge, but knowledge with the understanding that comes with personal experience.
Ouspensky quotes Gurdjieff as saying: "In right evolution the line of knowledge and the line of being develop simultaneously, parallel to, and helping one another. But if the line of knowledge gets too far ahead of the line of being, or if the line of being gets ahead of the line of knowledge, man's development goes wrong, and sooner or later it must come to a standstill."
(Read more on this from the book itself. An electronic version of this book is available from the link on the right.)
For the level of being to grow it needs not only knowledge, but knowledge with the understanding that comes with personal experience.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
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