/lit/ - Literature

>>18981343
I’m not lumping a bunch of traditions together, you Goddamned fucking retard. This is all pure GURDJIEFF, and Gurdjieff himself was pure Zen, Advaita (not-two), Sufism, and esoteric Christianity. In fact, he refused to use religious terminology frequently in his direct teaching, except as an example or a quote to demonstrate how his teaching was superior even to their religion and took the best parts out of it.

For instance, Gurdjieff would go, “Here in the Gospels, Christ says: ‘A man must die before he can be reborn again.’ The Buddha once said, ‘You must sit in the lotus position to learn how to really be enlightened.’ But my teaching is about how to really do that. I am like Christ and Buddha combined but even better, because I can actually teach you how to talk to God instead of just half-assing it.” I forgot where he’s recorded as saying this but I’m sure he actually said something like that at some point.