Jargon is not understanding

Now if your knowledge of the Work, such as it is, remains only laid up in your memory like the unused talent, you will never understand it. Indeed, you will never really know what on earth it is all about. You will hear again and again phrases such as Self-Remembering, internal considering, identifying, self-observation, and be really quite bewildered by the whole thing. It will become so much jargon to you.

This is because you do not yet understand any single thing in the Work. You have not thought for yourself about it, so you do not understand why it exists or what it is for or what it means or how it can possibly apply to yourself. Meetings will be a strain.

Maurice Nicoll, “Understanding the Work" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 5, p. 1630)