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

is like another brain and quick—very quick. Also the limits of intellectualcentre are well known.How is another thing—but we must learn not to stop them.MRS. W. The only way to stop them is to remember at the time?MR. O. Oh, there are many things. Buffers—they stop them automatically.MRS. W. It is difficult to find a buffer by oneself.MR. O. Oh, you can find them in somebody else. If you can't findsomething in yourself, look for it in somebody else.MRS. R. When we stop emotions do we stop them consciously?MR. O. No, we are not conscious. So how can we do anything consciously?We don't like emotions and all that taken together stopsthem. Emotions are necessary for many things.M R . H . What stops our emotions from existing?MR. O. They are destroyed. If we destroy them they disappear.MRS. S. How can one stimulate them?MR. O. No, it's not a question of stimulation. One must simply stopattempts to destroy them.MRS. H. How can we tell which emotions are which?MR. O. Oh, everyone has some particular favourite negative emotion.And if you are sincere with yourself you can recognize them evenwhen they disguise themselves.MRS. S. If there is not laughter in higher centres then there is nosorrow?MR. O. Oh, that I don't know. Laughter is one thing and sorrow isanother. Why opposite? Who said that they were opposite?MRS. S. Do you think that telepathy exists?MR. O. For No. 5. Even then he has to learn it. Telepathy is a functionof higher emotional centre. It is not in ordinary centres.MRS. v. Has everyone higher emotional centre and the possibility ofusing?MR. O. Yes, everybody has it. But not the possibility . . . you have tobe aware.MR. H. Can't you use it by accident?MR. O. Oh, accident may happen. But you cannot use accident.MRS. S. Does clairvoyance exist and in the higher emotional centre?MR. O. Yes, only no ordinary centre can see anything at a distance andso on. They may be accidental. You know I investigated this question