Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: Elders in our society have been positioned in the minds
of folks in rocking chairs, or in the care givers' place. They should
be repositioned. There's a wisdom that can come with age, and it's
not guaranteed, but wisdom when you run your course in the
world, then what's left is the pursuit of Wisdom, or self
realization, Self understanding. And you can go to a foreign
country with no maps, or no anything, and bump yourself around,
but you're not likely to find the good museums and things. So if
you're someone that can point out a few pointers, you have
Wisdom to share. For my own self it's been wonderful to have
mentors, especially spiritual mentors in life, not a spiritual mentor
that'll talk down to you, but one that will talk straight with you on
a level of equality, and you feel the sincerity of it. The best are the
ones that come naturally in the flow of life.
TRIP: We've got a wiser elder on the line; let me pick him up right
now. A. Ramana? Are you there?
A. RAMANA: Yes.
TRIP: All right.
WIZARD: Hello, Ramana.
A. RAMANA: Hello.
TRIP: Thanks for joining us today; it's good to have you.
A. RAMANA: Good to be with you.
TRIP: A. Ramana, I know that you're a fantastic instructor, and
we're right on the same page with you with the teachings, but I
also know that you're an awakened person, and there are not all
that many awakened people walking around. So I thought it
would be more interesting for me today to tap into what that really
kind of feels like in your moment to moment experience. And I
don't really have a big game plan here on doing that, but among
the things that I thought we might do today was that maybe you
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