Sep 17, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
This episode of Martfotai: Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way examines the work on others: the deflection whereby…
Gary EggletonHost
and the reason it feels like the work itself The Teaching Impulse The compulsion to put others on the right road has a particular place in Gurdjieff's account of human mechanicalness.
It belongs among the consequences of Kunderbuffer, the inherited distortions through which a person sees readily what is wrong outside while remaining strangely protected from seeing the same material within.
The moment a person can distinguish one thing from another, observation finds an easy direction.
Their self-love, their self-conceit, their contradictions can be seen with remarkable clarity.
In Gurdjieff's account, the original organ caused perception to register in a form that was, in his words, not in accordance with reality.
the distorted functioning had become established deeply enough to continue without it.
When we speak here of a Cunderbuffer consequence, we mean one of those inherited tendencies, a way of seeing that feels entirely natural while protecting the person's existing picture of themselves.
It tells us that something in the person doing the helping had a requirement of its own.
and the reason it feels like the work itself The Teaching Impulse The compulsion to put others on the right road has a particular place in Gurdjieff's account of human mechanicalness.
It belongs among the consequences of Kunderbuffer, the inherited distortions through which a person sees readily what is wrong outside while remaining strangely protected from seeing the same material within.
The moment a person can distinguish one thing from another, observation finds an easy direction.
Their self-love, their self-conceit, their contradictions can be seen with remarkable clarity.
In Gurdjieff's account, the original organ caused perception to register in a form that was, in his words, not in accordance with reality.
the distorted functioning had become established deeply enough to continue without it.
When we speak here of a Cunderbuffer consequence, we mean one of those inherited tendencies, a way of seeing that feels entirely natural while protecting the person's existing picture of themselves.
It tells us that something in the person doing the helping had a requirement of its own.
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