With yes there is nothing impossible
The whole chemistry changes with yes. With no you have one chemistry; with yes a totally different chemistry. With no you are fighting against existence. With no you are an ego. With yes you disappear: only existence is. With yes you are a religious person. With yes there is nothing impossible; with no there is nothing possible. The person who lives in a no lives in a citadel, behind iron walls. The person living in a no lives in his grave already. No goes on poisoning everything: it poisons love, it poisons trust, it poisons surrender; it poisons everything! Yes purifies. Yes is the philosopher's stone: any baser metal can be simply transformed into gold by touching it. That is one of the problems with Gurdjieff work: it does not believe in love at all. It is just pure effort to awaken intelligence, remembrance. Good, because there is something immensely valuable... but something is missing in it. Buddha had said that unless meditation and compassion go together nothing is possible. Compassion alone can grow much. That's what christian mystics have been doing: just compassion, service, humanity, this and that. Compassion grows but meditation is missing. Through Gurdjieff's work meditation grows, concentration grows, self-remembering grows, but compassion is missing. And once your heart starts growing then you will see how they both balance each other and what benediction happens when they are in utter balance. Then there is bliss. Bliss is balance. Just a few things here and there, final touches, and the quality of the painting is changed completely. Sometimes a single stroke of the brush and the painting becomes a masterpiece, but one has to know exactly where the stroke is needed.
There was a great factory that had to be closed because something went wrong; it was fully automatic, the factory. The expert was called; he had to come from a faraway country. He came and with a small hammer he simply hit a certain place and the mechanism started humming again. It was almost a miracle! The owner was very thankful, but the expert demanded ten thousand dollars. The man said, 'Are you joking or what? You have not done anything at all; you have just hit with your hammer! Just for a single hit, ten thousand dollars is too much.' The expert said, 'As far as the hit is concerned, for that I am charging only one dollar. But where to hit? -- for that I am charging the remainder!'
Sometimes one can go on groping, not knowing where to hit. And once the right place is hit everything will fall into one whole. Nobody wants to be helped because it makes you feel helpless -- that you cannot do anything on your own. It is so simple. Sometimes it happens: people cling to their misery because it is better than nothing. The fear may be of a deep emptiness, so anything -- worry, depression, misery -- anything is good. One feels full.
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