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The Reality of Being：The Fourth Way of Gurdjieff

生命存在的真相：葛吉夫第四道

作者簡介：珍妮 迪 薩爾斯曼 Jeanne De Salzmann (1889 -1990)

出生於法國，早期致力於音樂、舞蹈、戲劇方面的生涯發展。

她於1919年遇到了葛吉夫，成為他最親近的弟子，

在1949年葛吉夫往生以前，珍妮迪 薩爾斯曼一直接受葛吉夫的指導，

於全世界持續進行第四道的教授。

她在美國紐約、英國倫敦、委內瑞拉的加拉加斯，創建第四道教學中心。

由於她致力於葛吉夫第四道，以及葛吉夫神聖舞蹈的教導，

因此，她被尊稱為Madame，來彰顯她的成就。

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生命存在的真相：葛吉夫第四道 共有12章；

底下先介紹本書的英文目錄；這是PDF電子書的版本目錄。

再接著是中文摘譯一些小章節的內容。

Contents

Foreword ....................................................................................................................... 12

In homage to George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff .................................................................... 17

Introduction ................................................................................................................... 18

Ⅰ、A CALL TO CONSCIOUSNESS .......................................................... 22

I AM ASLEEP .................................................................................................. 23

1. A nostalgia for Being ............................................................................. 23

2. The life force ......................................................................................... 23

3. I do not know myself ............................................................................. 24

4. “I” am not here ..................................................................................... 26

TO REMEMBER ONESELF .............................................................................. 28

5. Where our attention is .......................................................................... 28

6. The first initiation .................................................................................. 29

7. Can we become conscious? .................................................................. 31

8. The watchman ....................................................................................... 32

THE NEED TO KNOW ..................................................................................... 34

9. New knowledge is necessary ................................................................ 34

10. Self-observation .................................................................................. 35

11. Conscious effort .................................................................................. 37

12. The sacred manifests as inner consciousness ..................................... 38

Ⅱ、OPENING TO PRESENCE ................................................................... 39

IN A PASSIVE STATE ....................................................................................... 40

13. My functions are passive .................................................................... 40

14. I need impressions of myself .............................................................. 41

15. Hypnotized by my mind ...................................................................... 43

16. What is up to me ................................................................................. 44

AN EXPERIENCE OF PRESENCE ...................................................................... 47

17. The awareness of “being here” ........................................................... 47

18. Conscious of inner being ..................................................................... 48

19. An echo of “I” ...................................................................................... 50

20. Two currents ....................................................................................... 51

A MOVEMENT OF AVAILABILITY ................................................................... 53

21. A new way of functioning ................................................................... 53

22. Awakening to a new force .................................................................. 54

23. The attitude we take ........................................................................... 55

24. Coming together ................................................................................. 57

Ⅲ、IN A COMMON DIRECTION .............................................................. 59

A FREE THOUGHT .......................................................................................... 60

25. The functioning of the mind ............................................................... 60

26. Not knowing ........................................................................................ 61

27. A new thinking .................................................................................... 62

28. Beyond our usual consciousness ........................................................ 64

AN INNER SENSATION ................................................................................... 66

29. An instrument of contact .................................................................... 66

30. Obeying the attraction of the earth .................................................... 67

31. A global sensation ............................................................................... 69

32. To be spiritualized ............................................................................... 70

A NEW FEELING ............................................................................................. 72

33. I blindly trust my feelings .................................................................... 72

34. Feeling allows relation ........................................................................ 73

35. I feel “I am” ......................................................................................... 74

36. Love of being ....................................................................................... 76

Ⅳ、THE WORK TO BE PRESENT ............................................................. 78

IN A QUIET STATE .......................................................................................... 79

37. A way of understanding ...................................................................... 79

38. Each day .............................................................................................. 80

39. The way up .......................................................................................... 82

40. An exercise is a temporary aid ............................................................ 83

IN THE ACTIVITY OF LIFE ........................................................................... 86

41. Only in everyday life ............................................................................ 86

42. The source of manifestation ............................................................... 87

43. A measure from above ........................................................................ 88

44. The way down ..................................................................................... 90

STAYING IN FRONT ..................................................................................... 92

45. To “know myself” ................................................................................ 92

46. Only contact, only relation .................................................................. 93

47. The struggle for being ......................................................................... 95

48. Playing a role ....................................................................................... 96

Ⅴ、WITH OTHERS ........................................................................................... 99

A SPECIAL CURRENT .................................................................................... 100

49. We say we are “in the Work” ............................................................ 100

50. Why together? .................................................................................. 101

51. To organize ........................................................................................ 102

52. A school of the Fourth Way .............................................................. 104

EXCHANGE IN A GROUP .............................................................................. 106

53. A special condition for exchange ...................................................... 106

54. I need to speak .................................................................................. 107

55. Real exchange ................................................................................... 108

WORK IN MOVEMENTS ............................................................................... 112

57. A double aim ..................................................................................... 112

58. Why Movements? ............................................................................. 113

59. Part of the teaching........................................................................... 115

60. Only with a stable Presence .............................................................. 117

Ⅵ、TO BE CENTERED ................................................................................. 119

A SENSE OF THE WHOLE ............................................................................. 120

61. The aim of my effort ......................................................................... 120

62. The first feeling of unity .................................................................... 121

63. Centered through consciousness ...................................................... 123

AN INNER CENTER OF GRAVITY .................................................................. 125

64. Our vital center ................................................................................. 125

65. Situating the center of gravity .......................................................... 126

66. Becoming second nature .................................................................. 127

67. My true form ..................................................................................... 129

BREATHING ................................................................................................. 131

68. An imperceptible current .................................................................. 131

69. Stages of breathing ........................................................................... 132

70. I live in my breathing ......................................................................... 133

71. Without fear of losing myself ............................................................ 134