In Search of the Miraculous: Finding a Teaching (2)

I have a search.  I know that because I feel a lack and disquiet deep down – a sense that ‘I have missed the point’.  I respond to a gentle call to action.

I am attracted to ideas and groups who seem to be offering to fill the gap.  I am put off because the ideas appear to be ‘off the mark’, lightweight or even downright preposterous.  Perhaps I simply don’t resonate with the type of people following these ideas.  I use my inner instincts to weigh up the inherent value of each one – to ME.

I know I have to carve my own path.  I take responsibility for finding my own way.  I don’t want ritual or someone else’s philosophy.  I am an independent seeker.  I narrow down my options.  I’m looking for help, a guide or teacher who has been down that road before me and can shed some light on the next step(s) to take.  I become more discerning and develop a taste for what is authentic and what influences can help me in my search.

I know it immediately when I find it.  It touches me to the inner core and I am eager to know more.  I have reached the threshold.  I stand poised to take my first step.

Next event: 11am on Saturday 4 February in Central London. See our Meetup Group for details.

 

In Search of the Miraculous: Finding a Teaching

“Life can have moments of vividness – the miraculous. However, day-to-day I make my life mundane. My search is to find ‘in myself’, moments that are more real, alive and vivid. I’ve found I can’t ‘do’ this on my own, and there’s no workshop solution. I need to be with an active group of people, studying a serious Teaching which has a history and a transmission of ‘something’.”

Where do I find something authentic in my life? I have reached a crossroads where I need to find more meaning, I feel hungry for something true. Where do I search for it?

I’ve looked around trying to find glimpses of truth. I wanted it to be real, beyond doubt. 

I’ve found a lot empty things, without meaning. How do I cope with all this when I feel I need something else to feed my being? 

Is there still something miraculous to be found in this life? Do I have to withdraw from the world to find it, or is it hidden in plain sight in the hurly-burly of London?

We will explore these questions at our next Café Gurdjieff Meetup.

“The ‘miraculous’ is very difficult to define. But for me this word had a quite definite meaning. I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us.”

In Search of the Miraculous by P D Ouspensky

Next event: 11am on Saturday 4 February in Central London. See our Meetup Group for details.