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

MRS. D. Is that 48 in the brain? [Ref. to Food Factory.]MR. O. Yes, you can put it in the brain. It is in the head so it must bein the brain.MRS. C. What effect would rhythmic breathing have on it?MR. O. You cannot play any tricks with it. It cannot go any better.MISS B. Then how you breathe isn't important?MR. O. There's nothing mechanical. If so—one would only have to sitand breathe and so become superman.MRS. N. I got a different sensation the other day—I was wondering ifit was right?MR. O. Maybe—if it wasn't imagination.MISS S. Can you explain valuation a little more?MR. O. In relation to work it doesn't need elaborate explanation. Fromthe point of view of work it is connecting things with work.MRS. N. Is it absolutely possible for one to shut out all thoughts?MR. O. Absolute things happen only on the Absolute. Say you have athousand thoughts in the moment—if you make an effort and haveonly nine hundred that is something.MRS. N. Why does one remember oneself one day and not another?MR. O. Everything happens like that. We are never the same. In asimple way—it is different states of consciousness.MISS B. Suppose that one does not want to go back and live in thepast, does one have to?MR. O. This recurrence into the past is such a difficult thing that wecannot bring it in here.MISS B. Does one have to keep repeating the same mistakes?MR. O. First it is necessary to know that they are mistakes. Oh, if youknow, you have a criterion—more mechanical, less mechanical.MRS. N. Is it possible to remember oneself wrong?MR. O. No, only imaginary self-remembering.MRS. D. Do you see yourself as if someone was at the side of you?MR. O. No, that's already from the Evil One—that's imagination,seeing one's self.MR. C. The faculty to self-remember doesn't have its seat only in themind?MR. O. It begins in the mind, or it may begin in emotions.MR. H. If one remembers oneself in connection with the world and theuniverse. . . .