Blessed Are the Meek: Inner Work Explained

Do you know practically what the Work teaches that you have to do? It is a very good thing when a person reaches that stage in the Work when he or she realizes that it is about something absolutely practical and that all these phrases, these formulations, that they have to listen to for so long, are real instructions as to what they have to do to change the level of Being at which they are mechanically.

Let us take another phrase from the Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are the meek." This means that those who are meek will get bliss, inner happiness, will get something that everyone is looking for because no one is happy internally, no one has this strange source of inner happiness called bliss. Now what does 'meek' mean in the original sense of the Greek word? It means 'not resentful'. "Blessed are those who are not resentful." Now I think you can connect this with that phrase used in the Work which says that we must stop making internal accounts. When you are resentful are you not making internal accounts? Are you not considering internally?

Maurice Nicoll, “On Changing our Level of Being" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 727)