The Work is not just one thing

And, this is true whether or not one is referring to the living or the dead: including Gurdjieff, Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Maharshi, Yogananda, or any other Awake and Conscious and Enlightened Individual (to use all three if it makes you feel better.) As for the rest of the naked planetary bipeds today, there are very few (pitifully few, perhaps) such Individuals. After all, The Work consists of work on all three centers, not just one or two or even zero - that is, the body, the emotions, the intellect.

What it is not, is killing the ego, or the personality - which can't be done anyway, except by drugs of one kind or another, or massive injury, leaving the poor fool in a sorry state at best. Taming it, perhaps, but with higher emotional intelligence involved.

What it is, however, is Awakening, becoming Conscious of the Thought of Creation, which is not just a 3-centered conception consisting of mere (in our case) English words, but a 5-dimensional or more conception spanning time and eternity - two more concepts scarcely understood by anyone alive (making five, including the other three.)

Furthermore, unless one is truly extraordinary in so many ways, they will not be able to reach the Awakened, Conscious Thought of Creation on their own, no matter how many chants they re-repeat, mantras they a-humm, movements they mangle, holes they dig and re-dig, questions they ask or re-ask yet again, or books they read fourteen times. Why? NOT ENOUGH DATA. Simple as that. Such an awakened thought requires more data than one person can acquire during their way-too-short life span of extremely limited sensory capabilities. The Solution is easy (can you extraordinaries out there think of it?)

In order to hear it spoken out loud, in your presence, you will need to accomplish something that very few have ever been able to, because they are too fearful, too shy, too weak, too argumentative, too negative, too angry, too identified with their "self and i's," or worse, too identified with their favorite living or dead guy/gal, and too many other things to mention here... (still thinking?)

Solutions to the problem of increasing available data are extant, and there are those who are an intrinsic part of their own living versions. You are welcome to discover more about this, but you first must make THE effort mentioned here and elsewhere many times before. We await your responses.

One final thing to consider: master (hey, even expert) fishermen do not need to remain at the same pond, stream, river or part of the ocean, to know whether or not there are any viable fish in there. A few drops of the line reveals much. And though there may be a lot of critters swimming around down there, they are quickly discovered to be "of the wrong kind, variety, maturity, plumpness, tastiness, inquisitiveness, curiosity, etc."

Catch the drift before the fishermen 

depart for other suitable locations.
LOOK AROUND and DOWN 

(some fishees want to be hooked!)

(and if they look down far enough they will.)