Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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April 19 – How It Is

Perhaps one of the great dangers of Gurdjieff’s approach to inner development is understanding "I am" in the wrong way.

The ordinary mind get ahold of this idea; and before you know it, it gets involved with itself. How am I? I'm like this. I'm like that. "I am" observing this and that about me.

More and more “I” inserts itself into th…

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