Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
catches the fly. The flame is still, yet it attracts the moth. The hole
in the ground is still, yet it fills with water after rain. Be still and
realize your true purpose". As I read that I thought, wow, that is
really profound and how true, and I also thought back to a time
when those were just empty words to me. A bunch of things had
happened before they ceased to become empty words, but after
they became filled with just a bit of meaning, there was a
willingness to experiment with that. Can you talk about that, you
have to try that on; you can't just sit there and wait for the fly
without experimenting in waiting for the fly, right?
BRIAN EZZELL: Yes, in my own experience you go through
searching, and seeking, and trying to find different things, and
there comes a point where you exhaust all methods.
WIZARD: Right on.
BRIAN EZZELL: I was reading something I believe that
Adyashanti said, that was saying, he said that there was a man that
was running, and he was running, and running, and running, and
running. Until a guy comes up to him, probably a sage of some
kind, and said, "Hey what are you running for?" He said, "I'm
running to find stillness". And he said, "Okay, well it's just right
around the corner, keep going, [Laughs], just keep going and
eventually you'll find it. And if it's not around that corner then
keep going down and turn another corner. It's just right over
there", you know. And eventually you will get, in time, that person
will get tired out, just plum tuckered, and will realize that the very
thing they've been searching for was right there all along, all they
had to do was just stop.
So, yes, I can certainly identify with that, I used to read all
different types of text, and still do from time to time. But the
desire to read more and to search for these different things, it's not
that I found the answer; it's not that I have reached some supreme
enlightenment; it's just that the desire has been lifted from me. It
happens naturally over time I guess, you just realize that I don't
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