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of life, you will see that it is not that life ends with death. Death is the flowering of life: the peak, the ripening.
Our minds create the problem. We like youth, but we don t like old age. In fact, youth is nothing but the preparation for old age. We like life and we don't like death, but death is the flowering of life, the peak. The desire for things to be different from what they are is created by the intellect. If you are speculative, intellectual, theoretical, you can fool yoUrself, but you cannot deceive existence; you cannot deceive your own inner being.
To me -- or to yoga, or as far as the eastern approach is concerned -- the theoretical approach is nonsense. The existential approach is the only way.
As for the techniques are concerned, there are so many techniques. But each technique is essentially the same. The difference is only in details, not in the basic foundation.
We will discuss two or three methods that may appear to be contradictory, but the foundation is the same. One method may be applicable to particular individuals; another may not be. So many techniques exist not because there are so many ways but because there are so many types of individuals. The way is one, it cannot be otherwise, but it has to be applied to so many individuals, and with each individual the details will be different.
Many of the basic techniques are concerned with will. If you can will something absolutely -- with no wavering in the mind, with not a single part of the mind against it -- if you can crystallize your will and be totally one with it, then you can enter the existence. So there are many techniques that are techniques of will. For example, Gurdjieff's techniques for the west were techniques of will. The will must be totally crystallized...
But this is not possible for everyone. The feminine mind cannot understand how to be totally will-oriented. It is impossible in a way. Teachers who ray that only techniques of will are possible will deny that women can reach moksha, salvation.
For example, Mahavir denied it. He said that women cannot reach moksha unless they are first born as men. They cannot enter directly
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