A documentary about G.I. Gurdjieff with original and rare footage from his travels and of the dances.
Film by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky, a close associate of Mme Salzmann, with the support of the Gurdjeff Institute in France. Concept by Michel de Salzmann. Duration: 1:12:13 (Link thanks to Bhagawati)
Texts read in English, with Armenian subtitles. The words are taken from G.I. Gurdjieff’s writings or from recollections of those who were close to him.
A man who is asleep cannot do.
First he has to wake up. Once awake, he will see that as he is, he cannot be.
He must die to himself voluntarily, to everything which constitutes his ordinary life, to what makes him a slave, a prisoner of his everyday habits.
If he dies, he can be reborn.
But the being which has been born must grow and learn.
When he has grown and has understood, then he will be able to act consciously.
He will be able to do.
When you do something, do it with all your being. One thing at a time.
Now I sitting here, eating. For me, nothing else exists in the whole world.
I am eating with all my attention.
You must do likewise in everything.
These demonstrations are much appreciated, but Georgi Ivanovitch teaches us that in such work one must not think of results, and not expect praise, nor encouragement. The work in itself is the aim.
When man in a quiet state acknowledges his almost total nothingness he can then practise self-observation and self-remembering for a definite time.
In knowing himself he will know his inner structure. He will be able to see.
The stop exercise allows one to leave the circle of deep-rooted automatic functioning. The movement taking place is being interrupted by an outer command.
The body is frozen at the moment of passage from one position to the other.
By perceiving himself in this unaccustomed posture each person looks at himself from a new point of view and can think, feel and know himself in a new way.
Related discourse and darshan by Osho
- Gurdjieff – One of the Most Misunderstood Men in the World – The 1917 revolution in Russia disturbed Gurdjieff’s whole work
- Nataraj, dance and stop! – Osho explains in a darshan Gurdjieff’s ‘stop exercise’ to help make ones frozenness conscious
Related articles and interviews on Osho News
- George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff – An essay by Marc and Bhagawati (Sept 2015)
- Gurdjieff Sacred Movements – An interview with late Joanna Haggarty, a renowned teacher of the Gurdjieff Society, with a video of a Gurdjieff Movements presentation by Amiyo and Chetan’s group
- Sacred movements – Gurdjieff’s approach – Chandrakala highlights her personal experiences with Gurdjieff’s major work to awaken consciousness (June 2018)
- Gurdjieff Movements: The Radiance of Presence – Amiyo shares the story about one of her biggest love affairs (May 2012)
- The Gurdjieff Movements in the World of Osho – Punya interviews Jivan during one of his international Intensives in Corfu (Jan 2011)
- Gurdjieff – A poem by Madhuri
- More by and about G. I. Gurdjieff on Osho News
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