GURDJIEFF TERMOS — ATENÇÃO
Excertos de Fran Shaw, Ph.D. Notes on The Next Attention (Chandolin, 1993–2000)
Readers engaged in yoga, meditation, or mindfulness practice will find resonances in what Michel brings, a teaching he (and Gurdjieff) call haida yoga, that is, rapid yoga. “As human beings,” Michel tells us, “we have the capacity for another dimension to appear simultaneously with all this that thinks, feels, reacts.” Perhaps there is already contact with “the inexhaustible dimension” of attention:
Even a little bit of conscious energy is like gold from which something can start…. When there is attention, the body is light. Not brutal in action, speech. Sensitivity appears naturally.
In fact, “Everything we need is here in us. Everything for fuller being.”
How is it, then, that a more conscious state does not last? I try to be—yet surely being cannot mean having “a nice experience and then you are passive again.”
What is the process of waking up?
Michel draws a distinction between something I do with my attention and something received. He speaks of a quality of Attention that is “a sacred energy coming into me”:
With a very active attention, I can receive this energy…. When this energy is there and I am sure of it, aware of it moment by moment, I begin to be.
Indeed, “the only discovery is this energy”:
We are in a process to come under another influence. There is “my” attention, secondary attention, that runs up the mountain, sees obstacles, does this or that…. If it is “my” attention, it is not this other Attention, which transforms.
“This other Attention”—which transforms—is the subject of this book.
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