26.05.09
Sufism and poets
MBFM hits the nail on the head, and yet the situation has a lot of complexities. Sheiks in the sufi tradition are beset with the mystery of their own tradition, and their inability to truly understand, let alone surpass it. The issues of poets in the sufi tradition, after all, goes back a long way! And then all at once all that is gone, even as crystallizing traditions of sufism become something else, and can’t decipher what their original line was about.
People like Gurdjieff are frustrated by their own ignorance of such mysteries and their inability to generate creativity in their disciples, what to say of their own lack of such.
The electic nature of his ‘teaching’ should be obvious, but his manner of constantly clipping the presentation, as if the real thing was esoteric stops people from skeptical evaluations.
MBFM citation of Lachman on Ouspensky is worth considering. I think we haven’t heard the last of him.