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Short Description: Mental blocks that keep us from seeing our inner contradictions. Attitudes, once fixed enough become Buffers. Buffers, once removed CAN NOT BE RESTORED!!!!! Full Definition: He is shielded from seeing himself as he is through artificial appliances which Gurdjieff called ``buffers,'' which prevent him from feeling the contradictions which exist within him, as the buffers on a railroad car cushion the shocks when the train starts, stops, suddenly changes speed, or goes around a sharp curve. Concept Points:
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