The Triple Relation: Consciousness, Body, and World in Self-Remembering

Self-Remembering from one aspect is the practice of a certain relation of consciousness to one's body and through it to the world as rendered by our senses. If we take it like that, then there are three things (1) consciousness, (2) the body with its external senses, (3) the external world of things and people.

If you can reach and maintain this relation, you will experience quite definitely the taste of Self-Remembering. You will taste it as long as you can maintain the triple relation—I, looking through the machine of my body into the apparently colored and moving world of things and people. But it requires practice to do it and the power of doing it is soon spent.

It is no use trying to do it heavily or seriously or solemnly. I had almost said it is no use doing it on purpose. Bear in mind that the Work says that we should not work for results.

Maurice Nicoll, “Further Note on the Body as the Ultimate Degree of Ourselves" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1450-1451)