Gurdjieff said,"But you have written so many books.
Someone asked Gurdjieff,"Can something be done to stop wars?"?
A similar case has happened in this century with Gurdjieff.
Gurdjieff had to insist that there is no soul in you.
Gurdjieff said,“Nothing has happened to the city,
something has happened to you.
Gurdjieff, in this century, emphasized this fact that man is asleep.
Gurdjieff asked these thirty disciples to stay like that for three months.
And I would like to tell you that Gurdjieff was just using a device.
Gurdjieff was really very hard on his disciples, and she says,"You are worse than Gurdjieff!".
Gurdjieff has been much criticized because he was a liar
and the lying came from the Sufis;
Gurdjieff said, You are nothing but the body, and when the body dies you will die.
Now see
the difference: you have been told you are already a soul, and Gurdjieff changes it totally.
If you want to look in the West towards somebody,
then he is George Gurdjieff, not Tibetan refugees.
October 1- G. I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France.
Because there is a danger with Gurdjieff you may become too self-conscious-
rather than becoming self-aware, you may become self-conscious.
And no psychology of the West- except for Gurdjieff, Eckhart and Jacob Boehme-
no psychology of the West goes beyond mind.
So when they came into the pantry car to have lunch or dinner,
suddenly Gurdjieff acted like he was totally drunk.
This is the first meaning when Gurdjieff or Jesus or anyone says that man is asleep:
you are not conscious about yourself.
When Gurdjieff sees that they cannot bear it anymore, he would say,“Okay, just
dig a little more and then close the trench and come.”.
If Gurdjieff was going to speak on a particular evening at six o' clock,
five hundred people would come to one great hall somewhere in London.
If he was going to talk this night, eight-thirty, then nearabout eight o?
clock you will get the indication that somewhere Gurdjieff is going to talk.
Ouspensky tried to control him but Gurdjieff just picked up a glass of wine that was on the table
and poured it over a lady's head.
And to surrender to a Gurdjieff will transform you more than surrendering to Ramana Maharshi,
because Ramana Maharshi is so saintly, so simple, that surrender doesnt mean anything.
Alan Watts has written about Gurdjieff and has called him a rascal saint because sometimes
he would behave like a rascal, but it was all acting and was done knowingly to avoid all those who would take unnecessary time and energy.