{"id":3133,"date":"2016-07-08T17:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/?page_id=3133"},"modified":"2025-01-13T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:05:37","slug":"heart-without-measure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/articles\/heart-without-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart without measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the groups Madame de Salzmann so much emphasizes the right bodily posture as a prerequisite for a higher quality of attention. At one moment, sitting very straight in her chair, she pointed to her foot and said :\u201d If even a foot is not rightly aligned, the connection with the higher energy can be broken\u201d She herself sits there like a stupa, demonstrating, by her presence, the right posture and the connection with the higher energy. I see more and more that posture is an essential part of the teaching. I felt that my body was too heavy and that I was not sensitive enough to see the harm done by the wrong placing of the foot .I suppose the body is like a musical instrument. A sensitive and accomplished musician is likely to be more aware of the various subtleties of the instrument than a novice\u2026<br \/>\nIt struck me that a major difficulty lies precisely in this: one does not see that one is blind, and that it is possible to open one\u2019s eyes. It is absurd, but true: It is difficult to accept that if my eyes were open, I would see what I do not ordinarily see. I see neither the terror of my present situation nor the wonder of what it could be<\/p>\n<p>Ravi Ravindra : \u201d Heart without Measure \u201c<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fbx-link fbx-instance\" href=\"http:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/dsc01200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3134\" src=\"http:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/dsc01200-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"dsc01200\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/dsc01200-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/dsc01200.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the groups Madame de Salzmann so much emphasizes the right bodily posture as a prerequisite for a higher quality of attention. At one moment, sitting very straight in her chair, she pointed to her foot and said :\u201d If even a foot is not rightly aligned, the connection with the higher energy can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3068,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19073,"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3133\/revisions\/19073"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurdjieff-dances.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}