Kundalini and kundabuffer 2
In ‘All
and Everything: Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson’ the
Greek-American mystic and spiritual teacher George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866
– 1949) launched the idea of a
‘kundabuffer’: “an
implant put into man in order to keep man asleep and unable to do anything
but serve the dictates of his lower nature.” (…) “’Kunda’ is short for the
Sanskrit term ‘Kundalini’ which means ‘coiled’ so that Kundabuffer
literally means ‘no longer coiled’.” source
In ‘Kundabuffer
and the Personal Self: A property such that they should perceive reality
topsy-turvey’ the Gurdjieff
Journal explains: “There is a latent force
of meaning hidden within this idea of Kundabuffer which, at certain
moments, when we pause long enough for it to touch us, can penetrate to
another level of our consciousness, to a level where it is able to disturb
us. To disturb us in a way we know and intuit that
we need to be disturbed. Yet such moments are rare. Why? Because the shock
inherent within an objective truth so easily gets deflected, neutralized,
by one or another form of buffer—that is, through that unseen
predisposition by means of which we are 'protected' from the discomfort of
having to deal with what otherwise would be disturbing to our familiar and
cozy frame of reference. (…) If we are dealing with the inversion of a
fundamental order, what is this order we unconsciously invert? About what
are we actually speaking? A tempting yet facile reply might well be that
what Gurdjieff must
have had in mind is the maleficent factor of egoism within the human
psyche. However, it is indeed a facile answer, since egoism appears as one among
innumerable other maleficent consequences of the organ Kundabuffer (which
consequences continue to predominate, says Gurdjieff,
even though the organ itself has long since been removed). In other words,
egoism is subsumed within the much larger context of what Gurdjieff sees
as a deep underlying flaw in the way the human psyche perceives reality.”
source
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