There
are many paths but there is only one Way. For those blessed upon the Way neither paths nor techniques have
relevance. The
“path to the Way”
does not negate J. Krishnamurti’s counsel that the search for truth is a
pathless land requiring neither technique or teacher. 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. Among the Navaho the path is called “the Pollen Path of Beauty,”
“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. “We must not forget that the path leads upward and forward.”
Richard Wilhelm Lectures on the I Ching Routledge & Kegan Paul (London) 1981. ‘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.
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