Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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The First Attention: Part I
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The First Attention: Part I

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Mar 08, 2022
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I often say, “what is working?”, and acknowledge that I'm not quite sure what I'm up to in this effort to be more attentive to life. 

Yet I already have a set of formulas about what work is —and I apply it everywhere, to everything. The assumptions get in the way, because I assume that sitting and meditating is working — or that sensing myself is working…

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