Click title for flyerA Practicum on the Five Obligolnian Strivings
A Gathering ~
June 22 through the 28th, Seattle, Washington USA
concerning what we are obliged to do in this life, in order to live humanely and develop conscience.
In
G.I. Gurdjieff’s system of self-knowledge, transmitted in his seminal
text, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, the Obligolnian Strivings are
presented as a set of practices by the prophet Ashiata Shiemash for
acquiring genuine conscience.
The Five Strivings are as follows:
The Five Strivings are as follows:
✴ The first striving: to have in their ordinary being-existence everything satisfying and really necessary for their planetary body.
✴The second striving: to have a constant and unflagging instinctive need for self-perfection in the sense of being.
✴ The third: the conscious striving to know ever more and more concerning the laws of World-creation and World- maintenance.
✴The fourth: the striving from the beginning of their existence to pay for their arising and their individuality as quickly as possibly, in order afterward to be free to lighten as much as possibly, the Sorrow of our Common Father.
✴The fourth: the striving from the beginning of their existence to pay for their arising and their individuality as quickly as possibly, in order afterward to be free to lighten as much as possibly, the Sorrow of our Common Father.
✴ The fifth: the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting
of other beings, both those similar to oneself and those of other
forms, up to the degree of the sacred ‘Martfotai’ that is, up to the
degree of self-individuality.
It
is time, given the world circumstances and challenges, to take these
strivings to heart. We intend to explore the practical application of
this path to conscience in the context of our daily lives. Everyone is
invited to share their experience and insight. The forth striving
emphasizes the further obligatory task awaiting us
beyond the quest for our own transformation.
