Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
Carolina. You know, I've notice the kind of flipside of this not
knowing, not knowing is a kind of vulnerability. And you write on
your website, you say, "Tremendous power is realized when one
accepts vulnerability", so there's power in this not knowing, right?
BRIAN EZZELL: Yes.
TRIP: Can you talk about that?
BRIAN EZZELL: Yes. Vulnerability is kind of the peeling away of
the onion so to speak, you know, you're constantly having layers,
upon layers of your persona that seems to be being stripped away
by the veils that you have thrown up, or that you have been
conditioned and taught to throw up, are being stripped down and
ground into flour it seems like at times. But the vulnerability, you
know, if you look at… well just take a case in point, you can take a
small sampling of a tree that is out in the woods somewhere, and
it's a very, very small seedling, and it's vulnerable, and yet it grows
to become a magnificent humongous tree. And there are so many
examples in nature where vulnerability seems to have such a
protective strength to it.
A young calf that is born out in the wild, you know, does not have a
scent to it and for some reason if it just stays still, oddly enough,
that predators will not even notice it. and vulnerability and
stillness are really very much conjoined, it could be also
considered one, because we believe, we're taught that being active,
being strong, throwing yourself out there, having a really strong
momentum is the cure-all for so many things in this world. And I
think that's one thing that we're finding out is that that kind of
momentum doesn’t last forever, and that it actually peters out.
But that things that are still, things that are vulnerable, they have a
tremendous power about them. I don't practice martial arts, but
it's something that I've heard that is taught in martial arts is when
you're still, you don't make the first move so to speak, you wait for
that first move to be made, and then the move comes naturally to
defend yourself.
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