Will and Self-Will

Will and Self-Will

Life normally thinks about willpower and judges a person on their will and

ability to do.  This of course is an illusion. We always think everybody else

is doing and we are stuck in the mud.  The machine/mind has a will and so has the

inner world, and they are different and opposed.  For a student, it is very 

important to protect the fragile inner will.

The story of Cinderella is the story of the conflict of these two wills.  The

ugly step sisters (Emotional and Instinctive Centers) give impossible tasks

to Cinderella and criticize everything she does. Even when she does carry out

the task they just make her do it again.

One of the reasons I do not give "Gurdjieff like" tasks to people is to

protect their inner will.  False personality and a whole array of features

ask for tasks.  Machines like to show off how good or bad they are.  All I

ask is from students is to try and remember themselves just a little more and

longer when they "Find" themselves present.  Giving tasks which are beyond

ones being, only encourages the ugly sisters and strengthens the enemy.  We

have to be very careful not to "Defeat" the inner will.

As our Friend Buddha said ... 

"You have nothing to achieve.  

 Just open your

eyes."


~ Mervyn Brady