silence shared in words
presents
You Are in Prison and You Think you Are Free
I am speaking to you and I am fully aware from where these words are coming
they are coming from my nothingness. I don't find any other place from where they are coming.
Nothingness is not nothing. Nothingness is all.
And to recognize nothingness as all, as an experience, is the only way to find your unity with the universe.
George Gurdjieff has said:
"You are in prison.
If you wish to get out of prison,
the first thing you must do
is realize that you are in prison.
If you think you are free, you can't escape."
What are the prisons that I call "home"?
Rama Prem
George Gurdjieff
is one of the most
significant
masters of this age.
He is unique in many ways
nobody has said things
in the contemporary world
the way Gurdjieff has said them.
He is almost
like another Bodhidharma
or Chuang Tzu,
apparently absurd
but in reality
giving great indications
towards the liberation of human consciousness.
You are asking about one of his
significant statements.
He often used to say,
"You are in prison."
Sometimes he was even more
deeper into the reality,
and instead of saying, "You are in prison,"
he would say, "You are the prison."
That is more true.
If you wish to get out of prison
or better to say, if you don't want to be a prison
the first thing you must do is
realize that you are in prison...or
you are the prison.
This is something
to be always remembered as one of the first principles
for any seeker of truth.
The tendency of the human mind is
to deny those things which are ugly,
to hide those things
which he does not want
others to know
to hide in such a way,
in such depths of the unconscious
that even he himself
becomes unaware of them.
This way
He maintains
his superficial personality.
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