/lit/ - Literature

>>18980513
Do NOT join Gurdjieff groups. Just don’t. I’m not joking. They’ll do shit like that and pull leaders around by the nose and some even do ask for money because they think they’re hot shit for knowing someone who knows someone who took a shit in the same bathroom Gurdjieff once did. None of them ever were directly trained and learned from Naqshbandi Sufis, or Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhists, or wandering enlightened Hindu yogis.

I myself may or may not be a pseud pulling everyone’s leg, but notice how I’m not doing this for money or fame? At least I didn’t do it for money. You’re better off joining some Westernized Zen sangha than a Gurdjieff group.

>>18980685
No. Ees you who got filtered, anon. Random anon on 4chan know better than Gurdjieff group. He read Beelzebub book many, many times. Is now like piece of dirt on toenail on the toe of servant of Beelzebub, Ahoon. Advanced state for man to be in, but even I am beginner.

Joking and bullshitting aside, imitating Gurdjieff or anyone won’t bring you enlightenment. Only being uniquely and inimitable yourself will do so. So, strange as it sounds, you could even come at all this by getting deep enough into J. Krishnamurti, but not by joining a God-awful Krishnamurti group, or by getting deep into Zen, into Hindu yoga, into Sufism, or even into Christianity and the imitatio Christi (paradoxical as that sounds — I don’t recommend trying to imitate Gurdjieff, but you can still get something on literature on and a sense of devotion to Christ and trying to imitate how He lived and what He taught to people!)

Another random book recommendation: “The Teachers of Gurdjieff” by Rafael Lefort. Western seeker who searched after and found the Naqshbandi Sufi teachers of Gurdjieff, then studied and learned under them.