…h. Buddha is to know, but better to be awake. You know some of you have probably thought yourselves to the teachings of Gurdjieff, the wonderful old rascal, who used to give lectures in which he would keep completely silent for a while and get everybody…

…all mixed up what is going on anyway? You see you can't stop it it's like trying to. We were discussing the Gurdjieff thing yesterday, the self remembering exercise, the attempt to live completely in the present. Well that's not only a Gurdjieff idea…

…the Gurdjieff thing yesterday, the self remembering exercise, the attempt to live completely in the present. Well that's not only a Gurdjieff idea that's a very ancient yoga and Buddhist discipline: to be completely here and now. But of course as you pursue…

…in so doing gain the strength and energy that you were looking for. You see it's like trying to live in the present. Gurdjieff used to set his students the exercise he called self remembering. That is constantly, all day long. Be completely aware of what…

…I gave that program, some new ideas have occurred to me about the work of Uspensky and its relation to that extraordinary fellow Gurdjieff and as I remember I don't think I've expressed these on the air now I think in order to understand the situation…

…attitudes that prevail in Asia about the relationship between philosophical or religious teachers and their students. Because in many ways Gurdjieff, who I suppose was a native of the Caucasus but somehow or other he was certainly influenced by eastern ideas…

…in his way to see if he can jump over them. And this is the sort of thing that we have in a man like Gurdjieff, whose teachings are purportedly expressed in Uspensky's book the fourth way. Here we have a man who, in my feeling I never knew him…

…food and enormous quantities of vodka and everybody would be compelled to drink toasts to all kinds of absurd objects and Gurdjieff would preside and apparently give everybody a great good time and then send them out to work. Sometimes they at fontainebleau…

…this business of trying to tie people up by observing themselves. Now I think the problem in this whole picture of Ouspensky and Gurdjieff was that Ouspensky was the good student who never graduated. He was a very nice man but he had absolutely no sense…

…They are often shocking people because they do things that holy men are not supposed to do. I mean characters like Gurdjieff and even sri Ramana Maharshi and so on are very, very unpredictable. They're weird but always surprising. Zen masters I know…

…a big line, and so the teacher will often play the role of charlatan. Watch out for this. This was the great point of Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff went out of his way to play at being a charlatan. He did the most elaborate acts of charlatanry that one ever…

…big line, and so the teacher will often play the role of charlatan. Watch out for this. This was the great point of Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff went out of his way to play at being a charlatan. He did the most elaborate acts of charlatanry that one ever heard…

…a charlatan. He did the most elaborate acts of charlatanry that one ever heard of. You know who you all know who Gurdjieff was. Well Gurdjieff was a remarkable Russian, a countryman of Stalin from Georgia not dowger, but the Georgia in the Caucasus and…

…did the most elaborate acts of charlatanry that one ever heard of. You know who you all know who Gurdjieff was. Well Gurdjieff was a remarkable Russian, a countryman of Stalin from Georgia not dowger, but the Georgia in the Caucasus and he established a…

…rascal. He wrote a book called all and everything, which is beelzebub's tales to his son, and an incredibly funny book. But Gurdjieff had an apartment in Paris and all the meetings were secret. You could only get there by invitation and when you arrived…

…h buddh is to know but better to be awake. You know some of you have probably exposed yourselves to the teachings of Gurdjieff, the wonderful old rascal who used to give lectures in which he would keep completely silent for a while and get everybody…

…ways are ways of great difficulty. They involve very, very strenuous discipline and of course as we get it through the books about Gurdjieff, the way of the sly man involves a discipline too. But I think there's more to be said about the way of the…

…that the same word can mean recollection or memory and present mindedness. But shmriti is exactly what that wonderful old rascal Gurdjieff meant by self awareness or self remembering. Shmriti is to have a complete presence of mind. So there is a wonderful…

…don't have to try not to hang on to yourself. It can't be done and that is salvation. Memento Mori: be mindful of death. Gurdjieff says in one of his books that the most important thing for anyone to realize is that you and all you, every person you…

…a Great Zen master today let's take oda roshi at that but you go through regular channels. Then there is a guru like Mr Gurdjieff, who is a rascal guru who leads you in by means that are very, very strange indeed. Then there are gurus that are not…

…you can do that, you have no further problem. But if you try to do it, you're in the same mess all over again. Gurdjieff played the same game in a different way. He said the most important thing is self remembering. Always at every moment be aware of…

…in so doing gain the strength and energy that you were looking for. You see it's like trying to live in the present. Gurdjieff used to set his students the exercise he called self remembering. That is constantly all day long. Be completely aware of what…

…Ji, who is a square guru and a very good one, but you go through regular channels. Then there is a guru like Mr Gurdjieff, who is a rascal guru, who leads you in by means that are very, very strange indeed. Gurus may be situations, a certain kind…

…books, they mustn't do any meditation exercises or anything like that. They just have to be aware of themselves all the time. Gurdjieff played the same game in a different way. He said the most important thing is self remembering always at every moment be…

…guts on the banks of the Ganges, where they are always confronted with death, knowing this is going to happen to me. Gurdjieff once said that if anything would possibly save mankind from its idiocy it would be the clearest possible recognition by every…

…yoga of accounting or whatever it may be that you concentrate in the present. Some of you who've read the writings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky have read about the self remembering exercise, where you are vividly aware of everything you do all the time that…

…to pain and to being and so on, so that you can get a certain vague sense, a rather misty sense of floating. When Gurdjieff had a boy he was training, he was making him wait at the table one evening and he suddenly, before dinner filled him with…

…filled him with an enormous amount of vodka and the boy went around all evening in a sort of floating state and Gurdjieff said to him afterwards: now listen, when you can feel like that naturally all the time. You've learned my discipline, but here…

…are all kinds of yogas and ways for people who want to be difficult, and one of the great gambits of a man like Gurdjieff was to make it all seem as difficult as possible, because that challenged the vanity of his students. If some teacher, some guru…

…of karma and the Taoist way the easy way to escape it through cleverness not muscle, from Hindu and Christian Perspectives to Gurdjieff, Buddhism, T s Eliot and the Zen Pebble in the pond, he reveals the way to see into the tao without hesitation.…