In a vehicle in motion, a rhythmic movement that no resistance will create in you a centering. Gurdjieff created many dances for these techniques: working on this technique. All the dances that he used in his school were actually an oscillator circularly. All the dances were round, a simple spin, remaining aware, gradually making the circles smaller and smaller. There comes a time when the body stops, but the mind continues to move inside. If you have traveled by train per hour winds, when you arrive at home, if you close your eyes you will have the feeling of traveling again. Are you still on the road. The body has stopped, but the mind is still feeling the vehicle. So simply put into practice this technique. Gurdjieff created dances phenomenal, stupendous. In this century, performed miracles, not like those of Satya Sai Baba: those are not miracles, every circus magician would be able to get them. But Gurdjieff really miracles: prepared a group of a hundred people at a meditative dance, and that dance was representing for the first time for an audience in New York. On the stage there were a hundred people who were rolling. Even the minds of those who were in the audience began to spin: there were a hundred dancers whirling in white robes. When I pointed out with the hand movements, they were rolling, and not just saying to stop fell dead silent. That was a stop for the public, not for the dancers, because the body can stop instantly, but the mind includes within it the movement continues without stopping. It was also nice to see, because suddenly a hundred people became inert as statues. Also created a shock in the audience, because suddenly a hundred movements, movements gorgeous, rhythmic movements stopped. While they were watching that moved, wheeling, dancing, suddenly the dancers stopped. Then they stopped even your thoughts. Many in New York felt it was a strange phenomenon: their thoughts are immediately arrested. But for the dancers dance continued inside, and the circles became smaller and smaller, until it became centered. It happened one day, dancing, arrived just at the edge of the stage. It was expected, it was assumed, that Gurdjieff would make them stop just before, dancing, fell off the stage into the audience. A hundred dancers were right on the edge of the stage. One more step and they would fall down into the hall. The whole room was expected that suddenly Gurdjieff said to stop, but he turned around to turn his cigar. He turned his back to the dancers to turn on his cigar and the entire group of a hundred dancers fell down from the stage to the ground, on the bare stone floor. The entire audience stood up. They were screaming, shouting and thought that many would have had broken bones: it was such a roar. But not one had done wrong, and there was not a single bruise. Gurdjieff asked what had happened. No one had been hurt, and the fall was such that it seemed impossible. The only reason was this: at that moment they were not really in their bodies. Were slowing down their inner twirl. And when he saw that Gurdjieff had completely forgotten their body, he let fall.
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