The meeting started with a reading from the lecture of December 9, 1930 in New York, as transcribed in Views from the Real World, on the subject of Attention, in which Gurdjieff says: "There is no attention in people. You must aim to acquire this. Self-observation is only possible after acquiring attention. Start on small things." He goes on to to suggest trying, at first, to stop "nervous and restless movements . . . With these restless movements you cannot be anything. The first thing for you to do is to stop these movements. Make this your aim, your God. Even get your family to help you. Only after this, you can perhaps gain attention. This is an example of doing."
(Read more on this from the book itself, which is available from Amazon.)
A discussion followed, on the role of coincidence in life, and M explained how he thought a set of coincidences that led to him moving to Africa earlier in life were due to the sensitivity he had acquired through sustained work on himself.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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