Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: We had a post we're running today and it was about the
word “Master,” it did refer to Ramana Maharshi and why he is
called the Master? And then that one broke wide open. And I was
questioning knowledge, knowing; can you know the unknown? I
mean, I know I don't know. [Laughs] And I beat my head against
the wall and when I stopped there was great relief.
GREG GOODE: Not knowing is cool, who needs anymore than
that? Any more than that is dogmatism.
WIZARD: So John LeKay at Nondual magazine chimed in and
really certainly through the non-Vedic nomenclature about that
aspect of the mind that they talk about and still referred to it as the
knowledge is the Buddhi, that subtle aspect that… I asked if that
was intuition because that's the word I use, intuition, or sentience,
or seamless sentience. And there was an agreement there, it was
very affirming in the way that John handled me on the Facebook,
and our exchange was extremely affirming to me. And others,
there are some tough nuts to crack, and if I ask just a question, in
your case, what's your opinion of what's… then I get these
discourses on theology. It puts me to sleep.
GREG GOODE: Yes, yes. John comes to our nondual dinners.
WIZARD: He does?
GREG GOODE: Yes.
WIZARD: He's a good one.
GREG GOODE: Yes, he's a big believer in practice, he likes Qi
Gong and Tai Chi, and he likes that, the heavy hard work, really,
really hard, and you'll get effect, you'll get benefits. That’s kind of
reflection difference from so many other kinds of teachings.
TRIP: Yes, I want to ask you about that, that was next question,
and I'm basically lazy, so I want to self-confirm my laziness. But
you wrote about, I don't know if this is out of the Buddhist
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