Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: We're going to be talking a lot about awareness over the
next hour, and I was wondering if you could tell us exactly what
awareness is. Now you've written a book about awareness,
Standing as Awareness, we're going to talk a little bit about your
book. So what is awareness exactly?
GREG GOODE: Awareness is that which is appeared to, that
within which arisings arise.
TRIP: And what does it mean to take your stand as awareness?
GREG GOODE: It means… Do you know the bumper stickers that
say, WWJD, what would Jesus do?
TRIP: Yes.
GREG GOODE: And that's a supposed reminder, like I want to be
thankful, I remember what Jesus would do and I'll go in the right
track. Well, this is like that. What would awareness do? What is
true for awareness? Is it true that awareness doesn't like its
mother-in-law, or is it true that awareness suffers and stuff like
that? And you see, no. And so it's sort of a doing, it's an
orientation, it's like a stepping in to a certain gestalt where I'm
going to live as though awareness is what I am, instead of the
body, instead of the mind, instead of a person. That's what taking
a stand would be, it’s like enacting the Truth that is already there,
the Truth of awareness being your nature. And so then I don't
suffer. Since awareness doesn't suffer, I don't suffer. Awareness
doesn't have any inharmonious relations with relatives, so I don't
have any inharmonious relations with relatives. And it's
investigating the consequences of that. When you do investigate
the consequences of that stand, you find that the stand is
confirmed.
TRIP: The stand is confirmed?
GREG GOODE: Like verified.
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