To Take a Vow

Photo: Mating butterflies, Sparkill, July 2023

A call to action, then; a call to everyone, everywhere in the Gurdjieff community to undertake this experiment in which we agree to incorporate, as best we understand it, this question of loving kindness at the heart of our work: to behave in every moment as if we understood what loving kindness was; to treat others as if loving kindness was the motive force in our wish to Be.

We can take vows like the members of the ancient societies and brotherhoods Gurdjieff conjures in Beelzebub’s Tales.

This time, we’ll do something else new by way of addition to the tradition.