Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
what questions do they ask? So I was expected to talk in front of a
group of people and people said, is this a Satsang. I was like,
what's a Satsang? I didn't have any concept that there were people
out there, that there were people out there talking about this stuff.
TRIP: While you're talking about meetings, I thought it would be
instructive and helpful to talk about the meetings that you do on
your website, you say, "Meetings are bonfires in which all the
questions of the mind unravel and burn up leaving only the
wonder of what is". And then you went through, on your website,
you went through the guidelines, or I don't know if they're
guidelines, but just the way your meetings happen, the sharing
that happens where there is no teacher, and the way it goes down.
And I thought it was a really good way to look at a meeting and
also not just like a meeting between a so-called teacher and a
bunch of people that were there maybe to learn something, I don't
know. But it was almost a guideline for sharing in general. Could
you go through what you think good meetings are, what they look
like?
JEFF FOSTER: Good meetings. Well I guess the way I see the
meetings in a way is just a chance to sit together. What is it? It's a
room, you start; there's a room, people come into the room, or
they don't, sometimes they don't. So we sit together, I mean the
format I usually use I just give like an opening talk just to
generally introduce what this is all about, it's about present
experience, it's about finding the wholeness, the completeness,
within present experience. Just talking about how we're always
seeking, people always seem to be looking for something, it's like
we're always looking to complete ourselves in the future, that we
say to ourselves, one day I'll be complete, one day I'll be complete,
one day, one day, and it's always one day. And actually really what
the meeting is all about is actually discovering that that
completeness that everyone is looking for is not going to happen
one day, completeness is not something that happens one day.
Completeness is not in time, completeness is inherent in present
experience, Now. Just in the same way that the ocean is inherent
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