I haven't read anything by Gurdieff. But I agree that most of our cognitions are automated. Mindfulness is quite difficult but gets easier with practice. I agree that, the difficulty of mindfulness demonstrates how much we lack control over our mind
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Yes, the automation can only be stopped by mindfulness which is difficult at the beginning but easier with practice. By the way, I don't think you want to read Gurdjieff's, I tried it years after my initial introduction and it was boring to read. The summary of his work is that we are automatons and he gave a series of exercises in mindfulness to help break the automatic thinking mechanism . I prefer the metaphysicians because they are practical, philosophers mostly just discuss.
I see. Yeah philosophy can be very hard to read. I have only read a little and it took me several times of re-reading it over and over in order to understand it.
Lol. It's also believe it's usually that way. I prefer anything practical, books with exercises I can get to right away.