Zigzag Idiot and the ladder of Objective Reason

[Zigzag Idiot]

                                                                                                Mental health one-liners

 

Neurosis- It's when you apologize too much for being horrible. It's almost like humility.

Innocence feels almost like when you have no conscience.

Stupidity can be experienced as constipated reason.

Exhaustion is a wonderful help for not reacting passionately about anything.

Stupidity and exhaustion can merge minus anger and the experience can be similar to peace of mind.

Understanding is the prime ingredient for any state of consciousness that feels royal, supreme and common.

[Zigzag Idiot]

Maurice Nicoll was the first to be given permission from both Gurdjieff and Ouspensky to become a Teacher of “The Work”.He passed up the opportunity to study with Carl Jung and instead went to France and spent a year with Gurdjieff. Nicoll was a Scottish physician. I get amused at his describing how prevalent self deception is,,,,

I well know as a medical psychologist the awkward point where I had to say to the patient: ‘Yes—I can see you have been badly treated, never appreciated, never properly understood. You have told me all that very clearly. But do you think that it is possible that you are not quite the ideal person that you seem to imagine yourself to be, and that there may be some quite serious faults in yourself?’ Now you can all imagine the haughty look, the frozen smile, the magnificent rising from the chair—and the slamming of the door—without, of course, the fee being paid. Yes—but what has happened. . . What has been touched? What would you call it? Whatever you call it, it is this factor that prevents self-change...If he sees for himself something of this factor in him, which is so formidable and the source of so much violence, then it is not aroused antagonistically. He sees himself: he begins to accept what he would never have accepted from another. It is in this way that the Work deals with this otherwise intractable factor in Man.” V. 3, pp. 1165-1166

Another excerpt from Nicoll,,,,

COMPASSION II

“It is impossible to endure one another’s unpleasant manifestations in the right sense of the meaning of the word unless we see our own unpleasant manifestations and know them and accept them...(We) begin to realize our own helplessness, so we can endure the helpless- ness of others.” V. 3, 

 

p. 832

From Psychological Commentaries On the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky by Maurice Nicoll

[Zigzag Idiot]

A talk Almaas gave over 30 years ago.

“MOST SPIRITUAL PATHS, including the Diamond Approach, involve a certain paradox of realization. We practice, we do exercises, we become responsible for our own liberation, and, at the same time, we know from our experience that realization often happens without being directly connected to the practices that we engage. By exploring this paradox, we can come to understand the relationship between our own intention to wake up and the action of grace. We can come to appreciate the relationship between our own responsibility for our experience and the view that God or Being or true nature makes freedom happen."  -  A. H. Almaas, Runaway Realization, ch. 1

[Zigzag Idiot]

              Weekly planner 
Sunday

A day to rest, Sideways Sunday. Spend some time horizontal in bed, on couch or stretched out on the ground. It feels good to lay on the earth.

Monday 

It’s all about responsibility. Pay bills, etc.. 

Tuesday

Wear your coonskin cap day.

Local bowling alley closed down. Bummer,,,,

Wednesday 

Throw horseshoes and use mouthwash.

Thursdays

A day devoted to considering a life more oriented towards chastity, scholarship and good nutrition. Considering is enough. To admit with brutal honesty that I’m the way I am and see no use in wasting effort the other 6 days of the week being torn over these matters. Good enough. 

Friday

T.G.I.F.     Let’s bust some glass!!! Feels good. Maybe some old dishes or something,,, 

Also, reflect some. Do I need to take care of any business at weeks end? 

Saturday 

Wild card day! Jokers wild!
Go bananas yet remain my expressionless, deadpan self. I may not show it but inside, in my inner world,,,, Life is better than it was twenty years ago. I’m more content and grateful.

If the spirit moves me. Speak my truth. Even if it’s cringeworthy.

Edited October 28 by Zigzag Idiot