Bennett Books Educational Seminars - Opening Up & Letting Go

Impartial self-observation -- a foundation for self-remembering -- is intimately connected with sensing (attention on the organic sensation of life in the body) and results in a “something” that Gurdjieff calls “money in the bank.”
Just as our body opens up to food and lets go of waste, or undigested substances, so our attention can open to what is and let go of what can not be assimilated, transformed, or blended. In the opening, something is experienced; in the letting go something is discarded; in the digestion something remains.
Our theme practice is to see these “somethings.”

Theme Practice Side Effects
Although we try to practice without "expectation of results" we instinctively know from birth that everything has consequences: one thing leads to another, it's how we learn. One day, however, we realized that in not grasping for results we come to receive not what we want but a subtle something from that deep well of equanimous mind and impartial seeing. We receive what we need.

Health and well-being is intimately connected with our ability to participate in and fully embody our present moment through the actions of “sensing,” “feeling,” “seeing,” and “direct contact” and is another known side effect of sincere work. Are their others?

’Til soon,

James Tomarelli

	OPENING UP, LETTING GO, OPENING UP Umbrella Theme for Montevaso Gathering 2010
Impartial self-observation -- a foundation for self-remembering -- is intimately connected with sensing (attention on the organic sensation of life in the body) and results in a “something” that Gurdjieff calls “money in the bank.” Just as our body opens up to food and lets go of waste, or undigested substances, so our attention can open to what is and let go of what can not be assimilated, transformed, or blended. In the opening, something is experienced; in the letting go something is discarded; in the digestion something remains. Our theme practice is to see these “somethings.” Theme Practice Side Effects Although we try to practice without "expectation of results" we instinctively know from birth that everything has consequences: one thing leads to another, it's how we learn. One day, however, we realized that in not grasping for results we come to receive not what we want but a subtle something from that deep well of equanimous mind and impartial seeing. We receive what we need. Health and well-being is intimately connected with our ability to participate in and fully embody our present moment through the actions of “sensing,” “feeling,” “seeing,” and “direct contact” and is another known side effect of sincere work. Are their others? ’Til soon, James Tomarelli