09-03-2008, 12:00 AM
grandspeculator wrote:
Vrill wrote:
dreamways wrote:
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 ****?
the only problem, after 40 you had wasted all your energy and your body is devastated.
I've managed to do that after 20
imo it matters greatly whether you are 6 years old or 70
Vrill wrote:
dreamways wrote:
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 ****?
the only problem, after 40 you had wasted all your energy and your body is devastated.
I've managed to do that after 20
imo it matters greatly whether you are 6 years old or 70