Wright about his own internal weaknesses in the guise of talking about someone else, which is the normal technique of a Master. Wrights selfish, vain and competitive ego could not take it.
Then Wright said that he must stop reading because he was very tired, – which occurs when an ego blockage has been encountered, – his daughter was very tired and that he had better go back to the hotel. Gurdjieff said, “Better stop for her sake, she is still young and only begin, but you are old man and your life is finished!”
Wright got red in the face and said angrily, “My life is certainly not finished, there’s plenty I can do yet.” or words to that effect. He got up and left with his family in what is called, “High Dudgeon!”
“Like every one of us in front of Gurdjieff, Wright’s mask came off. Everyone, without exception, whilst eating and drinking with him, revealed his essential self.”
Gurdjieff says that our early education gives rise to the impulses of Vanity and Self-Conceit and he affirms that happiness in life and good relationships with all depend on an absence of the feeling of vanity and self conceit, touchiness, within ourselves. Touchiness is the symptom of a psychic energy blockage.
So, one of the tests of being with a master is not to react to these tests of vanity and the ego but to use the reaction to clear the blockage with advanced blockage busting techniques. Your ego reactions will show you where the ego blockages are. No reaction to the Masters probes can only be achieved when the ego is no more.
Thus touchy reactions are a tremendous help in the movement to Enlightenment, which only occurs when no energy blockages remain.
Such shocks, created by Gurdjieff, were introduced to show you