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throwing their light on the tree -- the light is moving outward. When you close your eyes, the light starts turning inward -- METANOIA, repent, return. And when the light falls on your own being, there is self-knowledge, self-knowing. And that self-knowing brings you freedom -- freedom from all entanglements, freedom from all attachments, freedom from death, freedom from body. It creates the soul in you.
That's what Gurdjieff used to say to his disciples: that you are not born with a soul, you have to create it by METANOIA.
THE BOOK OF THE YELLOW CASTLE SAYS: 'IN THE SQUARE INCH FIELD OF THE SQUARE FOOT HOUSE, LIFE CAN BE REGULATED.'
In this small temple of your body life can be regulated.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SQUARE INCH DWELLS THE SPLENDOUR. IN THE PURPLE HALL OF THE CITY OF JADE DWELLS THE GOD OF UTMOST EMPTINESS AND LIFE.
Just see the contradiction: emptiness and life. Life is male, emptiness is female. Life and emptiness -- both are two aspects of the inner God. When you have not chosen either in pre-ference to the other, when you have not chosen at all -- you have been just a watcher -- you become that God whose one aspect is life and whose other aspect is death, whose one aspect is perfection and whose other aspect is nothingness.
THEREFORE WHEN THE LIGHT CIRCULATES, THE ENERGIES OF THE WHOLE BODY APPEAR BEFORE ITS THRONE...
And when the light moves inwards and circulates inside your being, because there is no outlet left.... That's what meditation is. That's what Buddha is doing under the Bodhi Tree.
You sit silently, you close all the doors, and the light circulates within. Then for the first time you become aware of the body and all that the body contains -- all its mysteries. This small body contains all the mysteries of the universe. It is a miniature cosmos.
THEREFORE WHEN THE LIGHT CIRCULATES, THE ENERGIES OF THE WHOLE BODY APPEAR BEFORE ITS THRONE, AS, WHEN A HOLY KING HAS ESTABLISHED THE CAPITAL AND HAS LAID DOWN THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF ORDER, ALL THE STATES APPROACH WITH TRIBUTE; OR AS, WHEN THE MASTER IS QUIET AND CALM, MEN-SERVANTS AND MAIDS OBEY HIS ORDERS OF THEIR OWN ACCORD, AND
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