Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
need to go anywhere; I don't need to do any particular thing in
order to just be, and to have that experience.
WIZARD: When Buddha searched, and searched, and searched,
and searched, and he exhausted all his remedies, he sat under a
tree and then he was answered.
BRIAN EZZELL: Yes, correct. That's absolutely right. And even
today, there's times where seeking is really a habit, it's just a habit
that we have been conditioned to do. A case in point, on that very
poem that you read, it was re-blogged by a young school girl who I
guess had her own blog somewhere, and she put underneath, "Yes,
but they don't allow that in school" [Laughing]. And I thought,
now that is really quite a profound statement, because in school,
you're right, they do not allow just be still, just experience the
wisdom of being still. I thought that was really quite… yes, in
school it's all about learn, learn, learn, be a go-getter, you know,
aim for the top, keep moving. But at no point do we ever teach our
children that being still is a way of… it's a conditioning thing, it's
what we do, it's what keeps this whole machine running I guess,
the world that we live in today. And I guess they feel they're afraid
that if everybody took a moment just to be still, that everything
would fall apart, which then again maybe it would, maybe that
wouldn't be such a bad thing after all. [Laughs]
WIZARD: Yes, I think we start seeking food, and money, and sex,
and when that falls apart on us, and we start seeking the spiritual
answer and that as you so eloquently share, exhausting that
tendency results in the revelation of stillness that was always
already the case.
BRIAN EZZELL: Yes. Stillness has always been there, Truth has
always been there, and that we don't really have to go anywhere at
all, but people should not be afraid to move, you know. That if I
move, and that I said at one point I think that just as a person can
sit perfectly still and have a mind that is racing a million miles an
hour, so can a person who is running a marathon be perfectly still
in the mind.
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