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

Q . I for one have made quite a lot of observations and found out whatyou told me is true for me. I know now that practically the whole ofmy day I am not aware of myself. I did not know that before until youtold me to make observations about it, and I have made observations.MR. O. Can you continue?Q . Having come to that conclusion, what to do next?MR. O. Well, very good. In any case one cannot prove this conclusion.MRS. L. You said it was not possible to have something in oneself thatwas independent of the vicissitudes of life. But is it possible somehownot to be so attached to them, not to be completely dragged down?[No answer.]Q . Do you think that if everybody in this room had self-rememberedsince the moment they came in, there would not have been a singlequestion at all?MR. O. Maybe different.MRS. J. I want to know the first step I can take towards the understandingof truth.MR. O. Truth of what kind?MRS. J. Truth which one feels with one's inner self.[No answer.]MR. J. I have been trying to ask myself what I am working for. In anarrow sense, so far as I myself am concerned, I think I know. In alarger sense I do not.[No answer.]Q . Is it possible to find the next step for oneself through observation?MR. O. Very difficult to say. Is it possible ... I don't know. I will tryto come next week, and then we will see what we can do.Q . What does it mean, to self-remember?MR. O. That will be explained later, if I am able to explain.Q . You have asked us, 'What do you want?', and I feel we can neverget anything we want without paying for it. I feel I do not understandthe currency of this, and this is the understanding that I want togrow.MR. O. It may be if we speak another time we can come to that.Q . In the present chaotic state of the world, is it really possible forenough people to be conscious to have any effect on it?MR. O. No. Not mechanically.Q . Do you want us to go on trying?