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Notes on the Inner Meaning of Conscious Labor, part III
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Notes on the Inner Meaning of Conscious Labor, part III

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May 21, 2019
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If we want to understand the concept of duty — an extraordinarily important feature in Gurdjieff’s teaching — and we want to understand obedience and obligation, we must understand it from this perspective, because conscious labor is the foundational entity behind these others. I have a duty to pay; I have an obligation to pay.

 The word duty means a tax…

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