Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

TRIP: Yes.
Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
GREG GOODE: Like really as awareness that we don't suffer.
WIZARD: So it's a dispassionate stance?
GREG GOODE: I think it's a passionate stance, I think it helps to
fall in love with awareness. There are a lot of people for whom the
whole awareness teachings just don't make a lot of sense, so they
don't really have a lot to hook into with this teaching. But some
people do, like they've had childhood experiences, or like
intuitions of oneness or wholeness, and stuff like that. It's when
they hear the awareness teachings it really resonates with them,
and that pulls them in, as a sweetness which draws them in to a
teaching. And so when they stand as awareness it's a passionate
openhearted seeking of warmth, like a flower turning to the sun.
So I wouldn't say dispassionate. Dispassionate to me sounds a
little bit cold.
WIZARD: Okay. What I would say would be affirmed.
GREG GOODE: Yes, like that, there are people who try it, and
when they are going by the logic of awareness, not much happens.
And it's not a really useful teaching for a person whose only
connection with awareness is a logical analysis.
WIZARD: But it would be non-clingy?
GREG GOODE: That's for sure. You're not clinging, you're not…
what's the word I'm looking for? You're not desperate, you're not
holding onto it with desperation. It is an open-armed orientation
towards awareness, as though you're hugging it, and it's hugging
you.
TRIP: Agreed. And I've noticed that when I speak with friends, or
I'm at gatherings, and I speak about nondual wisdom from the
perspective of Trip, it always comes out sounding like a falsehood
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