About BE-THYSELF Institute
The coronavirus COVID-19 has had an unquestionable impact on our lives and the lives of people across the globe. One of the biggest challenges faced by humans as a collective has been going into lockdown. For the time being, our movements, our ability to see friends and loved ones, and even where we work, was all restricted.
Self-isolation left many of us feeling anxious and out of control, and for those who already felt alone, the silence was louder than ever. Our daily interactions with those we care about was restricted, and our routines have been left in chaos. We lack the distractions we perhaps took for granted before – whether commuting to work, attending social events or just having chit chat, we can no longer avoid ourselves.
While many of us often long for a bit of time to ourselves – time, which may be fundamental to our self-care routines, having too much time to be with ourselves can be problematic.We humans are often blissfully unaware of our true selves. We often hide our faults from ourselves so that we don’t have to face the reality that we aren’t perfect. Being presented with our limitations can make us feel vulnerable and insecure. However, it can also offer us the opportunity to grow and to become the person we want to be.
Social distancing presented us with an invaluable opportunity to get to know our true selves. We had nothing but time to listen to ourselves and to tune in to our thoughts and feelings. We had an unprecedented opportunity to get to know what motivates us, what scares us, what drives and excites us. We can ask ourselves who we want to be, and who we don’t! We had time to work out what we need to become the version of ourselves we dream of being. What do we need in order to grow? What do we need from ourselves? What do we need from others? But how do we get to know ourselves?
Finding yourself goes beyond listening to your thoughts, however, and this can be problematic for those who struggle with poor mental health or negative thoughts. Beyond all else, finding yourself can and should be fun!
To this objective, we started to offer wide-ranging qualitative services. Meet us and see it for yourself.
The BE-THYSELF Institute comprises of a group of people who feel a calling to alleviate human suffering to build healthier societies. We try to do this by helping people achieve their full potential through psychotherapy, through various courses, workshops, trainings, and supervisions. We value personal integrity, commitment to excellence, and compassion for self and others.
What is it to be oneself? It means to be one’s positive self. People say: ‘I was born with a bad temper; that is how I am.’ That is exactly not being oneself. To be means to be positive. To be negative means not to be. Negativeness, zero, a minus quantity by definition is not. A positive force by its very nature gives out. To be ourselves we must give attention, give interest, give whatever we can at every moment.
Then we are ourselves, we have being. First comes respect, then love, then harmony. First we must respect ourselves. Charity begins at home; that means in ourselves.
To be, alert, open, loving, is all that is necessary. Then one will act rightly without trying to do right. To be oneself is to obey one’s conscience.
Why do we do
What We Do
The five ‘being-obligolnian-strivings’ given to us by the Most Saintly Ashiata Shiemash is at the very heart of the Institute. He created for the welfare of humanity. These are the five strivings as He introduced them with the paragraph at the opening of their enumeration:
All the beings of this planet then began to work in order to have in their consciousness this Divine function of genuine conscience, and for this purpose, as everywhere in the Universe, they transubstantiated in themselves what are called the ‘being-obligolnian-strivings’ which consist of the following five, namely:
The first striving: to have in their ordinary being existence everything satisfying and really necessary for their planetary body.
The second striving: to have a constant and unflagging instinctive need for self-perfection in the sense of being.
The third: the conscious striving to know ever more and more concern the laws of World-creation and World-maintenance.
The fourth: the striving from the beginning of their existence to pay for their arising and their individuality as quickly as possible, in order afterwards to be free to lighten as much as possible the Sorrow of our common father.
And the fifth: the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting of other beings, both those similar to oneself and those of other forms, up to the degree of the sacred ‘Martfotai,’ that is, up to the degree of self-individuality.
(All and Everything by G.I. Gurdjieff, page 385.)
BE-Thyself Institute
Institute for the development of BE..ing
Mission: The Institute for the development of being is dedicated to the enablement of conscious living and dying, personal transformation, the attainment of higher personal consciousness, in service to the vision of a living universe.
BE-Thyself works with individuals to provide tools of service in these areas, to expand perception and awareness, and cultivate high attention and presence.
Our Vision
We at BE-Thyself Institute aim to take an individual through a warm and reviving experience of regaining their mental balance and experiencing connectedness with one’s inner self.
We at BE-Thyself Institue envision ourself as an one-stop engagement in the field of mental health processes related to all sectors of society
We aim to give valuable health information and support to those who search for reliable, timely and trustworthy information.
OSHO,
What is more important in your approach ?
to be thyself or to know thyself ?
Do you think they are different?
How can you know yourself if you are not yourself? And vice versa — how can you be yourself if you don’t know who you are? To be thyself and to know thyself are not two separate things, hence the question of choice does not arise. They are two aspects of a single process.
You have to work on both together simultaneously; neither can be neglected. But it is easier to start from being thyself; easier, because you have been distracted from yourself by others. The masks that you are carrying are not your own imposition. Unwillingly, reluctantly, you have been forced to be someone other than you are; hence it is easier to throw it off.
Slavery of any kind is easier to get rid of, because intrinsically who wants to be a slave? That is not in the nature of any being, human or not human. Slavery is against existence; hence it is easier to throw it off. It always remains a burden, and deep down you continue to fight with it, even though on the surface you follow it; deep down nobody can make you accept it. At the innermost core of your being it remains rejected forever; hence it is easier to throw it off.
The process is simple. Whatever you are doing, whatever you are thinking, whatever you are deciding, remember one thing: is it coming from you or is somebody else speaking?
Just knowing that it is not your voice but somebody else’s — whosoever that somebody else is — you know that you are not going to follow it. Whatsoever the consequences, good or bad, now you are deciding to move on your own, you are deciding to be mature. You have remained a child long enough. You have remained dependent long enough. Enough you have listened to all these voices and followed them. And where have they brought you? In a mess.
So once you figure out whose voice it is, say goodbye to it…because the person who had given that voice to you was not your enemy.
His intention was not bad, but it is not a question of his intention. The question is that he imposed something on you which is not coming from your own inner source; and anything that comes from outside makes you a psychological slave.
But before you can come to know yourself you have to be yourself
You have to drop all these personalities like clothes and you have to come to your utter nudity.
And from there is the beginning.
And then the second thing is very simple. The whole problem is with the first thing; the second thing is very simple. When personalities are gone, the crowd has left you, you are alone. Close your eyes, you will see who you are — because there is nobody else. There is only awareness of immense silence, of no object.
The night is over, the sunrise has happened — and a sunrise that is never going to become a sunset.
OSHO: From Ignorance to Innocence, Chapter 13
First point: to aim to know oneself;
second point: to know that one does not know oneself;
third point: to know oneself, to be oneself.
To find something that does not change, that is to find oneself. How to find it? By what we see in other people. That which shocks us in other people is what we have in ourselves; that which we respect in other people we have in ourselves too. If we recognize a quality in someone else, that means we have it ourselves.
be-thyself team
