The Reality of Being by Salzmann, Jeanne de -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Foreword Dedication Introduction I. A Call to Consciousness

I Am Asleep

1. A nostalgia for Being 2. The life force 3. I do not know myself 4. “I” am not here

To Remember Oneself

5. Where our attention is 6. The first initiation 7. Can we become conscious? 8. The watchman

The Need to Know

9. New knowledge is necessary 10. Self-observation 11. Conscious effort 12. The sacred manifests as inner consciousness

II. Opening to Presence

In a Passive State

13. My functions are passive 14. I need impressions of myself 15. Hypnotized by my mind 16. What is up to me

An Experience of Presence

17. The awareness of “being here” 18. Conscious of inner being 19. An echo of “I” 20. Two currents

A Movement of Availability

21. A new way of functioning 22. Awakening to a new force 23. The attitude we take 24. Coming together

III. In a Common Direction

A Free Thought

25. The functioning of the mind 26. Not knowing 27. A new thinking 28. Beyond our usual consciousness

An Inner Sensation

29. An instrument of contact 30. Obeying the attraction of the earth 31. A global sensation 32. To be spiritualized

A New Feeling

33. I blindly trust my feelings 34. Feeling allows relation 35. I feel “I am” 36. Love of being

IV. The Work to be Present

In a Quiet State

37. A way of understanding 38. Each day 39. The way up 40. An exercise is a temporary aid

In the Activity of Life

41. Only in everyday life 42. The source of manifestation 43. A measure from above 44. The way down

Staying in Front

45. To “know myself ” 46. Only contact, only relation 47. The struggle for being 48. Playing a role

V. With Others

A Special Current

49. We say we are “in the Work” 50. Why together? 51. To organize 52. A school of the Fourth Way

Exchange in a Group

53. A special condition for exchange 54. I need to speak 55. Real exchange 56. This form

Work in Movements

57. A double aim 58. Why Movements? 59. Part of the teaching 60. Only with a stable Presence

VI. To be Centered

A Sense of the Whole

61. The aim of my effort 62. The first feeling of unity 63. Centered through consciousness

An Inner Center of Gravity

64. Our vital center 65. Situating the center of gravity 66. Becoming second nature 67. My true form

Breathing

68. An imperceptible current 69. Stages of breathing 70. I live in my breathing 71. Without fear of losing myself

VII. Who Am I?

Ego and Illusion

72. The imagination of myself 73. Ferocious egotism 74. Free of fear and illusion

Toward the Unknown

75. I do not know 76. The resonance of “I am” 77. Silence 78. Inner solitude

My True Nature

79. A veil over my reality 80. What I really am 81. Who am I? 82. My true nature is consciousness

VIII. Toward a New Being

My Being is What I Am

83. Can being change? 84. The intensity must increase 85. Degrees of the octave 86. First and second conscious shocks

A Collected State

87. Repeat, repeat 88. My thought does not wander 89. I feel, I sense, I watch 90. How do I listen?

From Another Level

91. A more intense energy appears 92. Exercise of divided attention 93. My body needs to open 94. A cosmic scale

IX. In a State of Unity

The Act of Seeing

95. Another vision 96. Seeing is an act 97. Beyond my usual perception 98. The most important thing

Conscious Sensation

99. Life is in me 100. An inner stillness 101. A conscious posture 102. In a quiet body I breathe in

Voluntary Attention

103. The feeling of lack 104. Obedience and will 105. Developing conscious force

X. A Presence with its Own Life

A Pure Energy

106. A particle of the highest 107. Feeling this Presence as alive 108. From a higher part of the mind 109. To become a vessel

A Body of Energy

110. This immaterial Presence in me 111. A mass of energy 112. An exercise for opening 113. The substance of “I”

Voluntary Suffering

114. To stay in front 115. I must live the insufficiency 116. Conscious struggle

XI. The Essential Being

Recognizing a False Attitude

117. Stages of work 118. A flagrant contradiction 119. The affirmation of myself 120. My attitude expresses what I am

A Reality in Me

121. A wholly different vibration 122. Sincerity 123. Faith 124. Remorse of conscience

The Emergence of “I”

125. The extraordinary impression of existing 126. The death of my ordinary “I” 127. I see reality 128. The radiance of Presence

XII. To Live the Teaching

Creative Action

129. “I am” in movement 130. The miraculous in action 131. Effective through being 132. Something entirely new

An Attitude of Vigilance

133. Meditation is not contemplation 134. Opening without fear 135. Watchfulness is our real aim 136. A look from Above

A New Way of Being

137. I must live the lack of relation 138. Conscience 139. Living two lives 140. To know means to Be

Biographical Note Gurdjieff Centers Index E-mail Sign-Up

← Prev
Back
Next →

← Prev
Back
Next →