The Reality Of Being
The fourth way of Gurdjieff
- Category
- Books
- Code
- B005
- Author
- Jeanne de Salzmann
| ISBN13 | 9789608273696 |
| Translation | PERETZIS ALEXANDROS |
| Release Date | December 2018 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 24cm x 17cm |
Description
Man remains a mystery to himself. He has a nostalgia for Being, a longing for duration, for ermanence, for absoluteness --alonging to be. Yet everything that constitutes his life is temporary, ephemeral, limited. He aspires to another orde, another life, a world that is beyond him. He senses that he is meant to participate in it. He search es for an idea, an inspiration, that could move him in this direction. It arises aw a question:"Who am I- who am I in this world?" If this question becomes sufficiently alive, it could direct the course of his life. He can not answer. He has nothing with which to answer - no knowledge of himself to face this question, no knowledge of his own. But the feels he must welcome it. He asks himself qhat he is. This is the first step on the way. He want to open his eyes. He wantis to wake up, to awaken.
Contents
Foreword xiiion
- A CALL TO CONSCIOUSNESS
- Am Asleep
1. A nostalgia for Being
2. The life force
3. I do not know myself
4. "I” am not here
To Remember Oneself
5. Where our attention is
6. The first initiation
7. Can we becom e conscious?
8. The watchman - The Need to Know
9. New knowledge is necessary
10. Self-observation
11. Conscious effort
12. The sacred manifests as inner consciousness - OPENING TO PRESENCE
In a Passive State
13. My functions are passive
14. I need impressions of myself - 15. Hypnotized by my mind
16. What is up to me
An Experience o f Presence
17. The awareness o f "being here”
18. Conscious o f inner being
19. An echo of “I"
20. Two currents - A Movement of Availability
21. A new way o f functioning
22. Awakening to a new force
23. The attitude w e take
24. Coming together - IN A COMMOND IRECTION
25. The functioning o f the m ind
26. Not knowing
27. A new thinking
28. Beyond our usual consciousness
An Inner Sensation
29. An instrument of contact - 30. O beying the attraction of the earth
31. A global sensation
32. To be spiritualized
A New Feeling
33. I blindly trust m y feelings
34. Feeling allows relation
35. I feel “I am ”
36. Love o f being
