Teachers of No-Thing & Nothing

January 19, 1970: I entered the esoteric teaching of The Fourth Way with Lord John Pentland, the man Mr. Gurdjieff had chosen to lead the Work in America. On April Fool's Day, 1980, I met Sunyata, given that name by Ramana Maharshi. Sunya said he had "Nothing to teach. Nothing to sell." Before his passing, he introduced me to Jean Klein, the Advaita Master, who said "Absence is the greatest presence." And so there I was with these teachers of No-Thing and Nothing. It reminded me of the Buddha's Parable of the Raft, where Buddha tells the monks, "Teachings are like a raft, and are for crossing over with - not for seizing hold of." With the "raft" laid down, there I was in the unknown, dying and not, thinking I was crazy, but relaxing deeper and deeper, moving from No-Thing to Nothing, the subject of subject-object perception falling away... If this speaks, then give it your attention, energy, time and, as Sunya said, "Bhagavan Sri Dollar." -- William Patrick Patterson
Teachers of No-Thing & Nothing: Eating The "I" Parts II & III continues the journey begun in Eating The "I", "...one of the more important writings on the Gurdjieff Work, after Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous." --Miguel Serrano