That’s possible one has to be very alert about this. You lose sharpness, you lose aliveness, you become idiotic. That is the very natural danger: sitting silently, doing nothing, by and by you relapse into dullness, into a sort of unintelligence. You are not to do anything one can become lethargic, one can become dull and dead. On the second path, lethargy is the problem. One has to do, yet not strengthen the ego. On the first path, the greatest danger is of the ego because you have much to do, and if you are too egoistic, you will become a doer, and then ego will become your barrier. If you cannot take the jump, then there is no point in just sitting and waiting. If you can take the jump, then there is no need to train yourself for Yoga. It is difficult to decide but it has to be decided, otherwise you can go on doing things which will not have any meaning. These are the two paths, and everybody has to decide in his innermost core of being what appeals to him or to her. It is a bottomless abyss, it is emptiness, it is absolute nothingness. On the second path you simply take a jump into the abyss. On the first path you go step by step, moving upward. It needs an illogical, adventurous mind: one who can forego all steps, one who is ready to go into the unknown, one who is courageous enough to take the jump. Not based on logic, but based on intuition not based on intellect, but based on intuition. Naturally it cannot be explained logically. No degrees are possible, no small steps – but a quantum leap, a jump into the unknown, sudden, like lightning. But the path of the mystic is very mysterious hence it is called the mystic path. The steps can be made so small that everybody can take them, even a small child – there are possible degrees. It can be explained step by step it can be analyzed, divided into easy steps. The path of the ascetic is explainable: it is very scientific, very logical. The path of the mystic is mysterious – cannot be explained. You are not to go anywhere you are just to sit silently, you have just to be in a let-go. Time is not needed because exercise is not needed. On the negative path it can be absolutely sudden, it can happen this very moment. Enlightenment will be gradual, it cannot be sudden. You cannot be immediately enlightened – methods take time, exercises take time, preparation takes time, and you will have to wait for many lives. The second path can be called the path of the mystic: no exercises, no methods, no technology. Many methods, many exercises, Yoga, techniques, are possible. The word ascetic comes from a Greek root ascesis which means exercise. The first path can be said to be the path of the ascetic. These paths can be named in different ways too. On the path of will you have much to do on the path of surrender you have nothing to do – exactly nothing to do, only nothing to do. You give space so that if he comes, you are available you remain available. One has just to allow God to be no reaching for him, let him reach you. One has just to be in a let-go in the second: no will, but surrender. The first is the male-oriented path the second is the female-oriented path. The negative path just keeps the door open, not going, seeking not inquiring, just being receptive, womblike. The negative path is a waiting for God, not seeking. The positive path is a positive approach toward God, a reaching toward God, a seeking, an inquiry. They move in different dimensions they reach to the same goal, but they move in different directions. These two paths have to be understood as clearly as possible because much will depend on it some day or other you will have to choose. Krishnamurti follow the path of the “no.” ![]() The other path is the via negativa, through negation, through the “no.” Lao Tzu, Buddha, Nagarjuna followed the path of negation. In modern times, Gurdjieff, Ramakrishna followed the path of affirmation, via affirmativa. ![]() The path of affirmation seems to be the path of effort, of great effort: one is trying to reach God, one has to make all the effort that is possible, one has to do the utmost, one has to put oneself to the stake. ![]() Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, have followed the path of affirmation. The first path is via affirmativa, the positive path, the “yes-sayers” path. Man can approach this truth from two ways. That which keeps it together is God, Tao. No, the universe is one, together, and something keeps it together it is not falling apart. The universe is not a heap of things, separate, individual, like islands. Tao is not a person neither is God a person, but the unity that runs through everything, like a thread running through a garland. That which keeps the universe glued together is what we call truth, or Tao, or God. Truth is one – it cannot be otherwise because existence is a universe, it is not a “multiverse.” It is one.
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