Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: Absolutely.
BRIAN EZZELL: So it's not on the physical… I don't attribute
stillness as being a physical bodily thing, we have movement, but
it's the stillness of being.
TRIP: You know I had two experiences this past week where I felt
like I was in kind of a dream. One of them was my child's high
school homecoming football game, and she's a cheerleader. And
then the other was a Bucknell lacrosse game over at UNC, and
Wizard you just mentioned that you know you seek money, sex,
and fame, or whatever and then it all falls apart or whatever, but
kind of an aspect of the falling apart is actually wild perfect success
in that area, because then what? It was dream like both of those
events because it was absolutely perfect. These kids were in
perfect uniforms, the field was perfect, everything was perfect, and
it was like a dreamscape.
WIZARD: When the striving begins to falter, then everything is
happening of its own volition, and then that synchronicity enjoins
you and you see perfection everywhere all the time, every action is
perfect.
TRIP: I hear you. It was funny, on the wall behind the players of
the Bucknell game were two works, compete and swarm, these
were the two words. And I was thinking, and then I looked in the
stands and I looked at the parents of the students, and they all had
a certain kind of flavor, all of them looked like super competitors
out there in the economic marketplace. They had to be, it is
$35,000 a year to send your kid to that school, yes. And most of
them were there, they'd all flown down to the game or whatever.
And I was just thinking, you know, in a way their experiencing the
kind of Zenith of success in a kind of doership model of
competition, and swarming, and overcoming, and all of that. And
on the one hand it was beautiful and perfect, and completely
satisfying for them and for me to be at that game, but on the other
hand I myself felt myself in a kind of a dream, you know.
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