Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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A Determinate Awareness, Part I

The Limits of Our Being

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Lee van Laer
Aug 13, 2022
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Every person’s awareness exists in a determinate form, that is to say, our awareness takes a specific and nearly unalterable form that follows us through life and cannot be escaped from.

Lest you think that Gurdjieff didn't believe this, take note of the passage in the first 10 pages of Beelzebub’s Tales in From the Author, in which he describes the chil…

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