Hi there, this is Lee, and you’re watching In The Moment. This is another one of my little impromptu talks about stuff, whatever stuff may be.
What stuff is right now in this moment is a follow-up to the post that I did about the nature of sensation and the way we need to root ourselves in it.
Some of you may know that I’m going to be giving a workshop on the Gurdjieff ideas and Meister Eckhart in May of this year. It’s at Claymont in West Virginia. The dates are May 6th through 10th. And during that workshop, we’re going to explore some of these ideas about sensation, not as ideas, but as personally transmitted experience, where we share an experience of sensation in community and explore what that means.
Why are we doing that? Well, you’re watching this on the internet and a great deal of the Gurdjieff work and Christianity and everything else takes place on the internet now. But that’s not enough; because we need to transmit this work of being in life and being within being in person between each other as human beings in contact with each other personally, because there are fine substances that one needs to absorb in being that one can’t quite absorb over the internet.
Because just as there are energies which we share across vast distances, also there are very local energies that are essential to the harmonious development of inner being.
And why, you may ask, all of this emphasis on sensation? I know there are a lot of people that either say, “I don’t get it,” or “I’m not interested,” or I approach work through my feeling first, or I like the ideas, or I’m all about the movements.
All of that is good, but it is what might be called partial reasoning. Before I can actually do anything, I need to sensemyself.
And until I sense myself deep in the roots of my being, everything that I do is a dream of one kind or another. Once I stop dreaming a little bit, I may discover something real. But in order to do that, I must develop the roots of my inner sensation of being.
People often talk about having an intention in this work. And for all intents and purposes, sensation is intention.
I’ll leave you with that for now. Catch you next time.
