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

only requires initial effort to begin with and then seems to go by itself,the only difficulty, almost, being to stop doing it What kind ofactivity could this be?MR O This is subjective Your subjective feeling about one particularpiece of work It depends what you are doingMR A Does the Food Table change the nature of its activity whenself-remembering occurs It was said, I think, that it was automaticuntil the impressions do. and that after that the nature of the activityaltered Does the Food Table in this way exemplify two different kindsof activity after a certain point?MR O It is not automatic It is arranged Machine is prepared andspring is wound up This is how it works There are two intervalswhere one octave depends on another, touches another, does not workproperly Then a shock is necessary This shock is given by anothertriadThere are many forms of activity in this Necessary to find themMISS T Can one talk about 'group activity'? I do not mean thesegroups, but a group of people who are trying to follow out some planin ordinary life?MR O It will not help Individual or group, activity remains the sameMR B Can every ordinary activity be put into one of these six categories?MR O Yes That is the idea Although you must understand that thereare combinations of these in our ordinary activity But we must not speakabout combinations yet We must try to find examples of pure triadsMRS D What is the activity of exploring an unknown land?MR O That depends by whom, for which purpose, how You cannottake things without their constituent parts For instance, the bolshevikvoyage on the ice floe is simply advertising bolshevism, nothing elseMR A Is it correct to say that in the activity of transformation thereare no completed octaves without the activity of consciousness? I meantransformation in the sense of the Food Table Even the first octavedoes not go beyond siMR O Which transformation? Of food in the human body? We arespeaking about man's activity outside for the moment So I will notanswer that question We will come to it laterMR S It seems to me that each of these activities can take placeat various intensities or various speeds A house can burn or be