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

mystery about it, I want to give you the way how to think about it,and that is how to understand objective work in relation to this—Idon't like the word 'school' because it sounds too big in relation tothis thing, but objective work in connection with my work is kind ofinvestigation which I began long before I met with this system, andthis work I am continuing, and later when you know all that I can giveyou in relation to this system, you will see if you are interested in myobject and would like to work with me in my object; in any case youlose nothing, you get useful knowledge and you can do what you likewith it, but if you are interested in my investigation maybe you willcontinue to work with me. This is objective aim by which I define it ingeneral way, but later we can come to more exact definition of that.There is another thing I want to say; last time when you discussedthings you mixed up two things: what it was necessary to think aboutsecond line, work in groups, exchange of observations, interchange ofopinions and things like that, and organization of the whole thing.These ideas must be separated. In relation to groups you can donothing by yourself—that will be arranged and it will be settled whichday, and to which group, who will look after that—all that refers toyour connection with older people—all that will be arranged, but whatyou have to think about is general organization—until now peoplehave looked after you and arranged these lectures, now you have to tryto begin, you cannot do it, but you must try to think about yourself,how to organize it, how to continue it, and later, as I said, you. willlook after other people. This is part of the general plan of school­work: in the beginning p eople are looked after, then they look afterthemselves and then they look after other people.***Q . How can I find out that type of work which would be most usefulfor me to....MR. O. Only by trying.Q . Is it possible to get copies of all lectures?MR. O. Unfortunately, no. Generally they are burned very soon after,but later we shall have other notes which we shall be able to read.Q . What work are we supposed to do in our own group?MR. O. The very principle of group organization is that one has to sacrificehis decision and accept things as they are arranged, because whether peoplesee it or not, they will choose what they like, because all our life we choose