A practice to assist self-remembering: From Boyhood With Gurdjieff by Fritz Peters: “He (Gurdjieff) said that there were various important exercises having to do with ‘self-remembering’ which was a very important aspect of his work. One of them was to conscientiously and with all one’s concentration, try to remember, as on a movie film, everything […]
You must do your own work…there are no shortcuts around this…the wisdom of Almass “The appearance or the experience of essence can happen sometimes without the individual going through the inner work of understanding and without experiencing the deficiency. This happens in isolated instances and usually has no lasting effect on the personality. It also
A Practice “When you are unoccupied for a few minutes and especially last thing at night before falling asleep and first thing in the morning before getting up, ‘flood’ your body with consciousness. Close your eyes. Lie flat on your back. Choose different parts of your body to focus your attention on briefly at first:
Try this practice. Next time somebody is talking, drive your attention into the body. And listen to each word they are saying without trying to think of what you’re going to say next. Even allow for a space of silence when they stop talking to begin speaking. Be aware of this space, this will allow
“This sacred practice.” “It is the quiet itself that is important,..we need to discover the nature of silence, when thought, feeling and body are all silent…In being attentive to the nature of silence, I feel an intelligence awaken…this intelligence is sacred and cannot be in service of the ego, or ambition.” (Reality of Being, Jeanne
Jung on the Tao “But if we understand anything of the unconscious, we know that it cannot be swallowed. We also know that it is dangerous to suppress it, because the unconscious is life and this life turns against us if suppressed, as happens in neurosis. Conscious and unconscious do not make a whole when
