Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
completely right, or abstaining from one thing, and grasping for
the other, it's being, and as my teacher would say to me, lighten
up, it's okay just to be that which you are, and there's no need to
try to strive to be something more perfect, because that's just
duality working all over again, you're trying to be more perfect.
You don't see a dog out there trying to be a more perfect dog, do
you? You don't see a tree trying to be a more perfect tree, and yet
they grow in all different types of ways, some lean over, and some
go forward, and some are spindly, and some are mighty. And yet
they are what they are, and they're perfectly happy to be that way I
think.
So I don't see a need to over analyze our Beingness that we need to
be something more or less than what we already are.
WIZARD: There are no role models, none. Nisargadatta chained
smoked.
BRIAN EZZELL: Oh, did he?
WIZARD: Yes, that was his business, that's how he made his
living was selling cigarettes or what they call beedis, which are just
little cigarettes.
BRIAN EZZELL: My teacher, John, he smoked up until the last
month that he passed away, didn't die of lung cancer, but he was
quite the smoker.
WIZARD: No role models at all.
TRIP: So then we could say maybe that moderation tends to be a
by-product of being, but then there's no hard and fast rule.
BRIAN EZZELL: That's right. Yes. Being will create moderation
on its own if you will, it happens naturally.
TRIP: You wrote a little thing on being that I liked, you say, "The
flower is still, yet it attracts the bee. The spider's web is still, yet it
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