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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 260
Conversations with Avant-garde Sages in every wave. So life is no longer a question of one day I'll be complete. JEFF FOSTER: So the way I do the meetings is not about… in a way you're not going to come to the meeting to complete yourself, it's not, I'm going to go to a Jeff Foster meeting and I'm going to go there and fix myself, or mend myself. Actually what the meetings are all about is that the completeness that you seek is actually there in everything within your present experience, everything you're running away from in a way, everything you're trying to avoid, everything you're running away from, all the thoughts and feelings that aren't being accepted, that aren't being allowed in this present experience, actually the completeness is in those thoughts and feelings and sensations. Completeness is always there in present experience. So then it's just opportunities, there's just an opportunity in the meeting for people to ask questions, or explore. Basically, in a way I don't really do anything, it's not so much doing, it's just inviting people to take another look at present experience, and also to find the places where they're not seeing completeness. It is two things at once in a way, it's like pointing to completeness in present experience, but it's also pointing to the places where you're not seeing completeness, where you're running away from present experience. I think they're both important really, in a way when you're simply made aware of what you're running away from when you're simply aware of what's not being accepted in your experience, then somehow the acceptance is there, somehow there's an acceptance in seeing where you're not accepting. So instead of just shining the light on present experience, finding those… I talk about the wave in the ocean a lot, I think it's a really great metaphor. If you think of your present experience right Now as consisting of lots of waves, everything appearing in your present experience like a wave, so like a thought is a wave, sensation is a wave, feeling is a wave, and sound is a wave. So really when you come back to present experience all you ever find in present 261
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WIZARD: Be still. Conversations wit
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