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

quite useless and takes energy and causes a very great tendency to sleepand become negative and so onMISS S Is it wrong to think of Lyne as the only place where one hasthe opportunity to self-remember?MR O You must try to remember yourself when you can You cannotdecide to remember yourself in connection with some special place,special time, special weather and so onMRS H When it was said, man has to die before being born again,does it mean false personality has to die?MR O No Everything has to die, not only false personality Why falsepersonality? Again, this is rather a complicated terminology, so waituntil we come back to it You don't remember it quite right like thatIt was said that if man dies before he awakes, then he cannot be bornagain Man first must awake Then he can die And then he can be bornagain But these expressions 'die', 'born', they have different meanings,so you had better leave it But first it is necessary to try to awake[Mr O left the room and questions were written down]***MISS S I still do not understand about self remembering in connectionwith Lyne I mean hard or at least intense work seems to be necessaryto help one to stop thoughts, and as Lyne is where I get most chanceof doing this, then surely it must be a more important place to be atOr otherwise have I misunderstood about self remembering?MR O No Quite right If you feel like that, then it is quite all right,but it doesn't mean you must neglect to remember yourself in otherplacesMR M What is 'instinct' in insects and animals?MR O The same as in man The word instinct is generally used in thewrong sense Instinct, in man and in animals also, is chiefly inner workof the organism, and all the strange manifestations of animals whichwe know may sometimes be called instinct and may sometimes not becalled instinct, because ordinary science does not know about theindependent function of moving centre Really many of these thingscalled instincts are moving functions We may continue some time Itis a word that needs speaking aboutMR M Mr O has referred to reservoirs of higher hydrogens innature Could we hear more about this?MR O We will come to that some time, but not yet