A Record of Meetings held by P.D. Ouspensky - HolyBooks.com

glimpses. They may be short, but as I have said, they can come inordinary life. When it happens by itself. You find this by memory andobservation and then perhaps when you have this particular feeling ortaste, you can never be mistaken about it. One realizes it from degreesof it.Subjective thinking, that is another thing. As I said, self-rememberingis action, not thinking. It is doing.MRS. L. Is it possible, by work, to exclude from oneself the possibilityof criminal action and destructive action?MR. O. Difficult to put it like that. There are many hidden forms.MR. T . I think it has been said that every action has in it the seed ofanother, the next action?MR. O. Yes, quite right.MR. T . If the action which built a house were completed, would itcontain the seed of the life to be lived in the house?MR. O. Do not expect too much. One is sufficient. We are under theLaw of Accident. People build a house with one idea and somethinghappens and it is different. People build a church, then bolshevismbegins and they make it an Anti-Religious Museum.MISS M . Is the practice of meditation self-remembering?MR. O. What do you mean by it? Where do you get it?MISS M . I mean the meditation that is advocated, for instance, inIndian books.MR. O. They say meditation, then second word they say school: theysay one must work under a teacher. We read and remember one thingand forget another—think we can study meditation or meditate byourselves. If you can self-remember you can meditate; if not, youcannot. Self-remembering means control of thoughts, different state.Meditation is action of developed mind, and we ascribe it to ourselves.There are many things like that. It would be very good if we could doit. Self-remembering is the way towards these. It does not meaninstead of using this way you can begin from the end. You have tobegin from the beginning like in everything else. What does 'meditation'mean? Thinking about this system. Trying to connect ideas andreconstruct the system. This is meditation, not simply thinking aboutone word, or one idea.MR. H. Is it the laws under which man lives which prevent us fromdoing what we know we ought to do?