Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Okay, so you live in New York City?
GREG GOODE: Yes, yes. And there's another one… I've heard of
other similar gatherings. There's one from a Jean Klein’s student
that is conducted in Seattle, there's another one I heard that is in
Long Island, but I only heard about that one once.
WIZARD: That would be a good book, The Diner Conversations.
TRIP: Really.
GREG GOODE: So that’s like the second half of the book
Standing as Awareness – there are some conversations from
dinners.
TRIP: Bring your tape recorder.
GREG GOODE: Yes, yes.
TRIP: I want to ask you now, I just jump around, if you don't
mind, but I woke up when I walked past an open picture book with
Ramana Maharshi's wisdom in my friend the Wizard's sitting
room, so I'm a real… I venerate Ramana Maharshi, and I'm sure
you do too. I saw on your website where… Now this is something
that I've taken just on face value because Ramana said it, and I
haven't found anything else in his teachings that I could find fault
with, so I just accepted this one. But Ramana says all actions are
determined except the ability to inquire into one's true nature.
And I see that you've written about free will, I'm just wondering
like…
WIZARD: That's a good one.
TRIP: Other than accepting what Ramana says as face value, I'm
just wondering why that particular choice to inquire into your own
true nature is somehow a choice and nothing else is. That one's
always confused me.
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