Bought this book last year and kept it for a while. In fact, read the second series "
Meetings with remarkable men" few years back and "
In search of the miraculous" last year. Started reading this book (of course with warning from Gurdjieff) couple of months ago. So far completed around 300 pages! Osho's comments on this series of book is absolutely true.
I forgot to say something about Gurdjieff and his book ALL AND EVERYTHING – perhaps because it is a very strange book, not even readable. I don’t think there are any living individuals except me who have read from the first page to the last. I have come across many Gurdjieff followers, but none of them had been able to read ALL AND EVERYTHING in its totality.It is a big book – just the opposite of the ISA UPANISHAD – one thousand pages. And Gurdjieff is such a rascal saint – please allow me this expression, rascal saint – he writes in such a way that it becomes impossible to read. One sentence may go running on for pages. By the time you come to the end of the sentence you have forgotten its beginning. And he uses words he made up himself, just like me. Strange words... for example when he was writing about kundalini, he called it kundabuffer; that was his word for kundalini.This book is of immense value, but the diamonds are hidden among ordinary stones. One has to seek and search.I have read this book not once but many times. The more I went into it the more I loved it, because the more I could see the rascal; the more I could see what it was that he was hiding from those who should not know. Knowledge is not for those who are not yet capable of absorbing it.Knowledge has to be hidden from the unwary, and is only for those who can digest it. It has to be given only to those who are ready. That’s the whole purpose of writing in such a strange way.There is no other book stranger than Gurdjieff’s ALL AND EVERYTHING, and it certainly is all and everything.- Osho, Books I have loved.
