Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
body, or in which we see a process that we are not breathing, that
breathing is not coming from within, but that it is the entire
universe that does our breathing. There are many exercises, like
many that have been designed by seers and sages, and liberated
instructors, over all of the ages which are of value, and they are
instrumental in helping one get established in this peace, and in
this experience of non-separation.
WIZARD: So it's like turning inside out where the body and the
mind arise in that which is thoughtless rather than the sense of
sentience being a by-product of the biological mind.
FRANCIS LUCILLE: Yes. But to bring this understanding also at
the level of perception and sensation, that is the goal of Hatha
Yoga as I see it. But it was taken on a tangent if the goal is the
health goal only. The goal is really to make the body, if you will, an
instrument of the divine.
TRIP: Now the Wizard says the key to living the Truth to simply
being the Truth is to simply be yourself, nothing more than just be
yourself, right Wizard?
WIZARD: Yes, every action is perfect; everything is unfolding like
as it should.
TRIP: So just be yourself and that's fine. Okay. But I've noticed
that as I become more accepting, more open, more allowing, more
still, all of these things that are new that I haven't been in the past,
then I find that the people around me tend to respond to that and
they say, wow, I can see this beautiful transformation taking place
in you, Trip, you're more open and accepting and gentle and all of
that. But that’s not the Trip I've always been, okay. So I'm a little
confused still about being myself if “being myself” doesn’t really
serve me.
WIZARD: Be that which is the thoughtless and allow the thoughts
to come and go and be, even your reactions, your frustrations, if
you relax into that within which all of that is arising, then all of
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