Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
GREG GOODE: I am totally abnormal. [Laughs] It would take
me a little bit to answer that question, but it's a practice-specific,
or it's a path-specific question from Advaita Vedanta. And the way
they explain it is, if you're doing inquiry, it's for people who want
to do inquiry, not for living it, it's for inquiring into it. Afterward
then whatever happens, however the motor is going, the motor is
going to go, but while you're doing inquiry, if your intellect is not
steady, then you won't be able to keep on the point. If your
intellect is steady, it can't stay steady if your emotions are not
steady. Your emotions can't be steady unless your choices and
your values are steady. Your choices and your values can't be
steady unless … they can't grow to be steady unless you act in a
routine manner through time, and you can't act in a routine
manner through time unless your body acts as routine. I hear the
sound [of the ending tone for the interview]. So basically they
teach you to make everything stable for the physical on up, so that
you'll be able to inquire better. But that's only for inquiry; there
are other routes than inquiry.
WIZARD: So we are going to have to go now, say hello to John
LeKay for us.
GREG GOODE: Hello?
TRIP: We're here, are you there? We lost him? Look at that, that
was synchronistic.
WIZARD: That was synchronistic. [Laughs]
TRIP: Oh, he's still there. He's just jerking our chain. Hey, Greg,
you've burned up; you've helped up burn up a perfectly good hour.
GREG GOODE: Cool! I've never had an interview where the
interviewers laugh so much, that's great.
WIZARD: Many thanks, Greg; this has been a lot of fun.
GREG GOODE: Okay, bye.
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