Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
Well, Jeff, we had Francis Lucille on last week and today we've got
you. So I think we can just shut the show down after today
[Laughs].
JEFF FOSTER: That's it, finished.
TRIP: He’s like the grandfather bookend, and you’re like the
young whatever.
JEFF FOSTER: That's the best description of me I've ever heard,
the young whatever.
TRIP: Wizard and I came to see you and others at the Nonduality
Conference, it was like two years ago, right, Wizard, yeah two.
JEFF FOSTER: Yes.
TRIP: Yes, two years ago we were trolling for sages and
[Laughs]…
JEFF FOSTER: Is that what you do with your spare time, go out
hunting for sages?
TRIP: So I was at a point there where I think I might have been
feeling a little proud of my spiritual wisdom that I had
accumulated and in the local area I would go to little gatherings
and stuff, and I noticed that people weren't all that interested in
my sharing. So I had a little bit of a charge coming down to see like
this young sage that people were flocking to, this guy Jeff Foster,
whatever. And walked into that room and there was about 200
people in there, and you were sitting there up, well not up on the
chair, in a chair, facing everybody. You didn't have any notes or
anything, and you proceeded to speak for about, I don't know, it
was maybe 30 to 45 minutes. And you took people down this royal
road of understanding, and it was replete with some of the traps
that you had fallen into, and that people fall into. And at the end
of it there was this profound silence in the room where the simple
understanding, the simple intimacy that so well, that you’d shared
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