by cutsinger | Jul 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
On the subject of Gurdjieff, I’m minded to quote a Zen saying I rather like and have used on quite disparate occasions: “Even false words are true if they lead to enlightenment; even true words are false if they breed attachment.” Needless to say...
by cutsinger | Jul 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
Once again you write with questions of a technical order: How should one sit when meditating? How should one breathe? Is there a “most appropriate” mode of invocatory elocution? What is the best way to “coordinate” the attention given the Name...
by cutsinger | Jul 3, 2009 | Uncategorized
Amidists, you say, are necessarily proponents of a “situation ethics” since the absolutist’s presumption of knowing exactly how to act or what to do in every circumstance betokens a lopsided reliance on himself and “his own purported...
by cutsinger | Jun 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
I generally don’t comment on the comments that appear on this weblog, but the opinion recently expressed in connection with “A Balancing Act” by someone calling himself “Faust”—I’ll resist speculating as to the implications,...
by cutsinger | Jun 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Any number of posts on this weblog have been connected in one way or another with the dilemma you describe. As I’ve said before—though perhaps not quite in these terms—there’s simply no verbal formula that will provide a final resolution to the...
by cutsinger | Jun 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
After receiving your earlier message, my first thought was to recommend that you persist within the Islamic form, practicing it from the perspective of the religio perennis and exercising as much love as you wish for Christ and Christianity. Several of my closest Sufi...
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