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11.16.2025

Big insight - lying and conscience

I was just reading about Hesychasm in Eastern Orthodoxy, and it occurred to me why the Work teaching is so different from such things, and so much more real: it has to do with lying. Ouspensky somewhere said the Work could be said to be about the psychology of lying. It enters everything.

This too is why the Work also is stated to be bound up in conscience. Lying and conscience go hand in hand. 

My observation regarding this aspect of the Work that makes it real - the subject of lying; and awakening (or, unburying) of conscience - is like the difference between waking sleep and Self-Remembering. Like having a self-image that won't allow an insult to having a self-image that expects ignominy and even passes out ammunition that will be shot back at you. "You forgot this, I suck in this way too." That's a person who is able to not live a lie. Or in a lie. A much more interesting character, though reviled by the waking sleep crowd. Jesus had this effect on the Pharisees. 

Posted by c.t. at 13:15