Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
increasing your awareness of what you're actually going through
right now, and seeing that there are multiple steps here. And as
soon as you see it you can choose differently right at that moment.
I mean, probably you'll have to watch this over and over again
many times, before you can actually experience choice expressing
itself in a real living moment, but it does start to happen. I've
heard people report on this over and over again.
WIZARD: Yes, the sentient being is dispassionate, and it's
observant of the apparent choice going on. And when the primacy
of existence is the mind then it's caught up in choice, when the
primacy of existence itself is immaculate sentience, that's the
movie screen, and it stays immaculate regardless of the movie.
JAN FRAZIER: Yes. Even when there are those choices or nonchoices
going on that is there.
WIZARD: The movie keeps on, yes.
JAN FRAZIER: Yes. I think one thing about really being in the
present moment, and this is true whether somebody has had the
big shift or not, I think in any moment in which somebody is really
fully present and non-resisting, the experience, you mentioned the
word nonduality a bit ago, Trip, a moment in which a person
experiences yielding presence, they experience whatever's
happening as being them. I mean, to me that is what nonduality
does, how we experience it in living life, but there is no distance
between me and what's happening, it's all just the Now, or the
moment, or reality.
And so the whole question of choice in a way is that, the choice I've
been talking about to react or not, is nonsensical, there isn't
anybody. Because I'm not in opposition to the moment, whatever
the moment holds, or what we think of as the content of the
moment, I don't feel any need to orient to it at all. I am the
moment, and so I don't go around experiencing that I have choice
all the time, I'm only just now noticing this. But I think for people
that are really trying to become more Self aware and feel more
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