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The Work is not a building, place, book, system or tradition. It's something living in our hearts and minds - if we can find it. (M. Nicoll)

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James Taylor replied to rlnyc's discussion 'Attention: What does it mean in the work, and how important is it?'
So if I understand you correctly you are saying there are no efforts that man can make in order to…
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Wry wrote.  Probably a better way to talk about this is to speak of mind being…
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It has been kind of an interesting discussion, but attention cannot be transformed into…
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I think it has been an excellent discussion on "How is attention changed/transformed into…
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Martin, Thanks for that detailed explanation.
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The Chinese call refusing to think "Fasting of the Mind". It's very powerful.
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"Whatever we wish to attain, always attention is involved. Without attention, nothing can be…
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"All the beings of this planet then began to work in order to have in their consciousness this Divine function of genuine conscience, and for this purpose, as everywhere in the Universe, they transubstantiated in themselves what are called the 'being-obligolnian-strivings' which consist of the following five, namely:

"The first striving: to have in their ordinary being-existence everything satisfying and really necessary for their planetary body.
"The second striving: to have a constant and unflagging instinctive need for self-perfection in the sense of being.
"The third: the conscious striving to know ever more and more about the laws of World-creation and World-maintenance.
"The fourth: the striving from the beginning of their existence to pay for their arising and their individuality as quickly as possible, in order afterward to be free to lighten as much as possible the Sorrow of our COMMON FATHER.
"And the fifth: the striving always to assist the most rapid perfecting of other beings, both those similar to oneself and those of other forms, up to the degree of the sacred 'Martfotai,' that is, up to the degree of self-individuality.

(G.I. Gurdjieff -‘Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson’, p. 385-386)
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