Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
and look what you did". Krishna says, "Yes, because it was the last
attachment that was separating him from me".
TRIP: Yes.
FRANCIS LUCILLE: Well, I went into a tangent, right? About
attachments…
TRIP: I see.
WIZARD: An aversion is still attachment.
FRANCIS LUCILLE: Aversion is still attachment, yes.
WIZARD: Yes. If you have an aversion to twice as much as
what's happening with you, now, everything is doubled up. If you
have an aversion and fight that, that's not exactly going with the
flow, because it's all part of one display, one invisible
phenomenon. So however that changes, the proper
response is acceptance rather than aversion, whether there's an
aversion to losing the cow or an aversion to doubling your
apparent possessions.
FRANCIS LUCILLE: The possessions are immaterial; it's the
attachment to them that is the problem. So if there is an
attachment it means there is somebody attached, an attachment is
like a lined segment with two end points. One of the end points is
that to which we are attached, the other end point is the alleged
separate person who is attached to it, either through desire or
through fear or aversion. Yes, you're absolutely right, John.
TRIP: And I think then maybe this brings up for me something
that happened in my personal life which I'm not going to get into,
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