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

Thursday. March 7th 1935.[Written questions read and answered.][Notes of previous Thursday meeting read.]MR. O. First of all because it is better for your memory, in addition towhat I said about talking to your friends, you must try to limit all yousay to them by the first lecture that you heard. In the first lecture —youcan ask later, Madame K. is not here to-night, but she can give youprogramme—not programme, but she can show you how it waswritten in short form—that will help you to orientate—you cannotkeep it but you can read it and return. So if you speak to anybody youcannot speak of last lecture but you can start with first, and don't goeven to second until you get a result and you bring result here and wetalk about it, and then perhaps in some cases we can add something tofirst lecture, but even first lecture has enough material to realizewhether people want to hear it or study it or not.Secondly, there were two questions last time which I wanted toanswer—after I left —one question was how to continue lectures—some people said they realize that lectures are necessary, and I thinksomebody said they would like to hear it all from the beginning. Thatis quite right, that is the best thing possible; if I could start again fromthe beginning it would be very useful and very profitable, but wecannot go on for ever repeating and repeating although there aremeans to get to hear lectures second time. If you work enough onyourself, and study in second line of work, and find enough peoplewho are interested and want to come to these lectures, if you bringthese people, if I have time, if it is possible to arrange, if there aregood circumstances connected with that, then you will hear lecturesagain from the beginning which will not be given to you but to thepeople whom you bring; in that way you will have possibility to listenagain to the same things, but you will hear them differently as otherpeople who brought you heard again what they heard years before.Second thing, there was question, and I don't want to make a