I studied Fourth Way teaching a lot. The best book to read is "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949; London: Routledge, 1949" .The teaching is very tricky. Gurdjieff himself was a great con man and brilliant actor, he liked to fool naive people and totally subjugate them to his own goals. A man from out of nowhere -- even his exact birthdate is still unknown, not to mention that the only source of info about his biography until 40 was himself
. In my opinion the adequate part of his teaching is about Willpower: @People are mechanical. Their thoughts are mechanical, not to mention emotions and motion. It`s because they lack will. They lack even constant desires. Everything "happens" to them. They can do nothing. Instead of being individual everyone consists of numerous divided parts which are always in conflict with each other. In order to become whole, to become One, a man must train and suffer to 1. Stop daydreaming 2. Cristalyze his inner structure -- create constant will.@
Fourth Way - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia