On April 29th 2012 UK recording artist Fink and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra collaborated for a stunning one-off performance in Amsterdam's prestigious Concertgebouw to a sold out crowd. Conducted by Ivan Meylemans and arranged by Jules Buckley, the set - which can be streamed in HD via iPad - includes epic performances of Fink tracks such as Berlin Sunrise, Trouble's What You're In, This Is The Thing, Perfect Darkness, and more, alongside select compositions by Adams, Britten, Rouse, and Ives. This concert is an absolute must-watch event. Sharing love... what else but love? ssc
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think that life is an inexhaustible world. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, that afternoon is so deep part of your being that you can't even conceive your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
May I respectfully point out: Don't belong to anything.
See the reason of this.
First we invent the symbols, see how our mind works, the image of a church, or a temple, or the letters in a mosque, and after creating those, we worship those, and in worshiping that which we have created out of our thought we derive strength... ! See what it is happening. Now, the symbol is not the actual. The actual may never exists, but the symbol satisfies us. And the symbol gives us vitality, energy by looking, thinking, observing, being with it. Surely, that which has been created by tought must be illusion. You create me, I hope you won't, into a guru. I refuse to be a guru, it's too absurd, because I see how the followers destroy the guru, and the guru destroys the followers, do you understand this? I see that, to me the whole thing it's an abomination. You create an image about me, about the speaker, and the whole business begins. So, if I may point out, thought is the mystic maker in this. All the things in the church, in the temple, and in the mosque are not true, are not actual, they have been invented by the priests, by thought, by us out of our fear, out of our anxiety, uncertainty of the future... you follow... all that. We have created the symbol, and we are caught in that.
So first, to realize that thought will always create the things which give us satisfaction, psychologically, pleasure, give comfort. Therefore reassuring image is great comfort. It may totally be an illusion, and it is, but it gives me comfort. Therefore, I would never look beyond the illusion, right?
"I have been a member of Gurdjieff group"... from order to disorder....
This extraordinary idea of helping others... If you have got extraordinary comprehension of beauty, love, truth, and the whole word of order, and the great, immense sense of wholiness ... If you have that, you don't talk about helping others, right?
But first of all, why do we want to belong to something? Why? Is it why we can't stand alone?
Why do we depend on others? If we do depend on others psychologically, we become second hand people, which we are. The whole history of mankind is enough! The whole history is here, and we don't know how to read that! And if you could read it, and you read it... mh... you are not the reader, do you understand? you are the book. But when you read the book as a reader, it has no meaning. But if you are the book, and the book is showing you, telling you the story, and you are not telling the story, but the book is telling it, then you will not depend on a single person, then one will be a light to oneself. But we are all waiting for the light of another, the fire of another. And perhaps that's why you are all here... Because we cannot see clearly for ourselves. And before we help others we have to see clearly for ourselves! Otherwise then it's like the blind reading the blind.