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THERE IS NO PATH---EXCEPT THAT THERE STILL IS ONE

Saturday, November 16, 2013 19:42

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There is no ‘path.’ There is nowhere to ‘go.’ There is nothing to ‘believe.’ There is no one to ‘follow.’ And there is nothing to ‘transcend’—except, perhaps, your own limited thinking.

‘Truth’—that is, reality or life—‘is a pathless land,’ said J. Krishnamurti [pictured left], ‘and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.’ Why is that? Well, each one of us is always in direct and immediate contact with reality, both internal and external. A ‘path’ presupposes a separation or distance between A and B.

For example, if you are in New York and you want to go to Chicago, whether by automobile, train or airplane, you must follow a certain path or route, the reason being that there is a separation between the two cities, and thus a distance to be travelled. However, when it comes to life itself, there is no separation or distance to be made the subject of a path or otherwise ‘bridged’ by some supposed mediator or savior.

The problem with most if not all organized religions is that they assume that there is such a separation or distance; hence, the need for some supposed mediator or savior. Each religion espouses a different path. For example, there is the ‘golden path’ of the Buddha. Then there’s Jesus who, so it is claimed, uttered those much misunderstood words, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life’ (Jn 14:6). I could go on. Are these paths one and the same? Yes and no.

In a very profound sense, the paths taught by so-called experts—the priests, teachers, saviors and gurus—are not the true path. Did you hear that? They are not the true path. They represent other persons’ versions or ‘understanding’ of reality (that is, beliefs), and they are of little or no use to us. We don’t need paths—at least not those sorts of paths—and despite what some would have you believe, the various ‘paths’ of the world’s religions are not one and the same. There are great differences between them, and reason should tell us that they can’t all be right. Of course, it is quite possible that none of them are right.

There is, however, a truth to be known—and lived—and it is this: you are forever one with all that is, all that happens, and all that presents itself as your consciousness and experience. You are life itself—well, at least a unique individualization or expression of life. Yes, you are part of life’s Self-expression, and life cannot other than be.

There is no path, yet there still is one. What path, you may ask? The path is whatever presents itself as your reality, that is, as your consciousness and experience. Your path, to truth, that is, experience of truth, will always be different from mine, but in a very profound sense, our paths are one and the same, for they are both life unfolding itself from one moment to the next. Let me quote Krishnamurti once more: ‘Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.’ Now, by ‘meditation’ Krishnamurti means, not concentration, but choiceless awareness of life as it unfolds from one moment to the next. That, my friends, is both the means and the end, for the means and the end are one. It is the so-called ‘path,’ and it is also a non-path—for, at the risk of repeating myself, there is nowhere to go. Got that? There is nowhere to go. You are already ‘there.’ You are already on the ‘other side.’

Yes, there is only one way of being, and one order or level of reality. That is the truth. Know that—and you shall be free.

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