March 10, 2010
- Gurdjieff on the end of program-as-solution -
Further, he said that history had already proven to us that such tools as politics, religion, and any other organized movements which treated man “in the mass” and not as individual beings, were failures. That they would always be failures and that the separate, distinct growth of each individual in the world was the only possible solution.
(from Fritz Peters’ memoir “My Journey With A Mystic”)
Yeah, I totally agree that. However, there are “programs” that allow for the greatest amount of freedom for every individual to pursue personal development and also other “collectivist” programs related to Fascism that would prevent that.
This is why I went off on the Tibetan Buddhists. They were Fascists, prior to exile. They expoloited and opressed the peasants, kept them ignorant and illiterate and hoarded the advanced knowledge for themselves.
The program seemed to be enslave the masses, and keep them in the dark, in order to live a life of liesure and luxury and the freedom to pursue “enligtenment”
So I go to this talk about how you can make the World a better place through the practice of Buddhism. It was a bit banal. Why would they have the answers to that question?
Everything the Dalai Lama has learned about freedom, Democracy and Human rights, he learned since his exile, from sources already avialable to all of us in the west.
So I’d like to figure out just what exactly are the kernals of truth to be had from this stuff.
Comment by ted — March 10, 2010 @ 5:16 pm
The point I’m making here is that there is no Way other than one’s own Way. The name that can be named is not the true name, we each have our own and trying to come up with a description of it is a futile and ultimately harmful excerise. Its our responsibility to figure it out for our selves and then to walk it.
I know you agree with that, but it has nothing to do with Tibet.
Comment by Ian — March 10, 2010 @ 7:57 pm