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Gurdjieff used this second method. This second method comes from the Sufi tradition, from Islam.
They worked on it very deeply. Remember ”I am” – whatsoever you are doing. You are drinking
water, you are eating your food – remember, ”I am.” Go on eating and go on remembering, ”I am, I
am.” Do not forget it! It is difficult because you already think that you know you are, so what is the
need to go on remembering this? You never remember it, but it is a very, very potential technique.
When walking remember, ”I am.” Let the walking be there, go on walking, but be constantly fixed in
this self-remembering of ”I am, I am, I am.” Do not forget this. You are listening to me – just do it
here. You are listening to me. Do not be so much merged, involved, identified. Whatsoever I am
saying, remember, go on remembering. Listening is there, words are there, someone is talking, you
are – ”I am, I am, I am.” Let this ”I am” be a constant factor of awareness.
It is very difficult. You cannot remember continuously even for a single minute. Try it. Put your watch
before your eyes and look at the hands moving. One second, two seconds, three seconds... go
on looking at it. Do two things: look at the movement of the hand which is showing seconds, and
continuously remember ”I am, I am.” With every second go on remembering ”I am.” Within five or six
seconds you will feel that you have forgotten. Suddenly you will remember that ”Many seconds have
passed and I have not remembered ‘I am.’”
Even to remember for one complete minute is a miracle. And if you can remember for one minute,
the technique is for you. Then do it. Through it you will be capable of going beyond dreams and of
knowing that dreams are dreams.
How does it work? If the whole day you can remember ”I am,” then this will pe*****te your sleep
also. And when you will be dreaming, continuously you will remember, ”I am.” If you can remember
”I am” in the dream, suddenly the dream becomes just a dream. Then the dream cannot deceive
you, then the dream cannot be felt as reality. This is the mechanism: the dream is felt as reality
because you are missing the self-remembering; you are missing ”I am.” If there is no remembering
of oneself, then the dream becomes reality. If there is the remembering of oneself, then reality, the
so-called reality, becomes just a dream
osho
Vigyan Bhairav Ta**ra, Vol 1
CHAPTER 6. DEVICES TO TRANSCEND DREAMING