09-03-2008, 12:00 AM
Vrill wrote:
dreamways wrote:
Bob May wrote:
It is my understanding that certain "Mystery Schools" would not let a person in until they were 40 years old. These Occult Schools demanded a
certain amount of maturity in their students before they began to teach them.
Can't remember where I heard this, but, supposedly, students in shaolin temples have to sweep the floors for 2 years before they are
taught anything. Then they are taught kung fu for several years, which is preparation for learning chi kung and eastern medicine, the whole point of being
there in the first place.
Gurdjieff didn't like to teach most people unless they were over 35. He said they hadn't lived through enough. Also the person really
has to value the teachings.
It's a question of tonal sobriety and viability. Most young people are fleetingly interested in spiritual subjects or they are interested for
the wrong reasons. As you get older and the pressures of the tonal life burdens you, you start to value the "paths to freedom" for what they are.
If you are sober and viable, it doesn't matter if you are 6 years old or 70. if you are not viable and seek the spiritual you will only find unviable
teachers and teachings.
Ain't that a ****?
dreamways wrote:
Bob May wrote:
It is my understanding that certain "Mystery Schools" would not let a person in until they were 40 years old. These Occult Schools demanded a
certain amount of maturity in their students before they began to teach them.
Can't remember where I heard this, but, supposedly, students in shaolin temples have to sweep the floors for 2 years before they are
taught anything. Then they are taught kung fu for several years, which is preparation for learning chi kung and eastern medicine, the whole point of being
there in the first place.
Gurdjieff didn't like to teach most people unless they were over 35. He said they hadn't lived through enough. Also the person really
has to value the teachings.
It's a question of tonal sobriety and viability. Most young people are fleetingly interested in spiritual subjects or they are interested for
the wrong reasons. As you get older and the pressures of the tonal life burdens you, you start to value the "paths to freedom" for what they are.
If you are sober and viable, it doesn't matter if you are 6 years old or 70. if you are not viable and seek the spiritual you will only find unviable
teachers and teachings.
Ain't that a ****?