There are many paths to the Way, but there is only one Way, the great Way, the Tao.
Called “the Pollen Path of Beauty,” among the Navaho. “And this way, congenial to the wholeness of man, is understood as the little portion of the great Way that binds the cosmos:..” Joseph Campbell The Flight of the Wild Gander Harper Perennial New York 1990, P. 33.
“This cross of light is sometimes called Logos by me for your sakes, sometimes mind, sometimes Christ, sometimes a door, sometimes a way, sometimes bread, sometimes seed, sometimes resurrection, sometimes Son, sometimes Father, sometimes Spirit, sometimes life, sometimes truth, sometimes faith, sometimes grace; and so (it is called) for men’s sake.” The Acts of St John, New Testament Apocrypha.
‘From the point of view of the path, the great struggle is for an inner freedom that can simply watch and contain both the upward and downward movements of energy within the psyche…. The real enemy of self development is our automatic tendency to identify the whole of ourselves with one or another of these fundamental movements of psychic energy.’ Jacob Needleman, Psychotherapy and The Sacred. Parabola Magazine Volume 1, Issue 1, Winter 1976, Pps. 54-55.
“We must not forget that the path leads upward and forward.” Richard Wilhelm Lectures on the I Ching Routledge & Kegan Paul (London) 1981.
The “path to the Way” does not negate J. Krishnamurti’s counsel that the search for truth is a pathless land requiring neither technique nor teacher. Many paths but there is only one Way. For those blessed upon the Way paths or techniques have no relevance. The way in Chinese philosophy was named Tao and corresponds to the ancient Greek Logos, Menicus referred to Tao as “the kingly way”; and accessible only to those in conscience.
