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

MR. O. When you remember? Quite right.MR. J. I know from experience that to-morrow after this meeting itwill be easier for me to remember a bit, but after that almost anyexcuse will be good enough not to go on with it—as if somethingwould drag me into just forgetting.MR O There must be reason for that. Otherwise how do you take it?MRS. v. What is this remembering people are talking about?MR O If you use it, it must be that you remember. You use it in acertain sense. Have you heard it more?MISS Q . We are speaking of remembering ourselves experiencing life,instead of forgetting as we usually do.MR. O Sometimes you have to come to that.MR. B. Are our questions too personal?MR. O. Cannot be too personal. You came here because you want toask something. You must ask something that means something to you.When I was told about things that have no meaning for me, I couldnot answer them, so now they brought certain examples of memory,and I say I will take that. Dr. R. you came to something that you couldexplain, or in any case came here to. ... Without that I could not sayanything.MISS D. I find it very hard to remember what has been said at themeetings Is that because I am not remembering?MR. O I don't know that. But is fact—something is missed.MISS S Would it help our memory to have an exercise for it?MR. O. There are no exercises In any case I never heard about anythinglike that for memory.MR. L Is it fact that unless we remember we can do nothing?MR. O Certain cases. It is only one way.MR S Is remembering a feeling or a thought?MR O. That you must ask policeman.MR. S. If it is a thought, it seems to me one has to be thinking of twothings at once. Is it possible to remember oneself and be doingordinary things at the same time?MR. O. No. Even policeman—nobody can do two things at once.MRS. P. Is it lack of desire that stops us from remembering?MR. O. Sometimes it is lack of desire, sometimes a lack of somethingelse—lack of something. I am not prepared fully for any kind ofquestion. [Pause.]