Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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A Simple Goodness, Part II

A Simple Goodness, Part II

What is simple?

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The word simple, in its 16th century context as a noun, originally referred to a medicine made from one constituent, especially from one plant. So what is simple comes from a single thing that grows and is uncomplicated by admixture of other things. It is taken as a medicine; it is a palliative, something to go ag…

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