Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
you are is just the space in which all these waves come and go, the
ocean, you could say that's the ocean. What you are deeply accepts
every thought, every sensation; every feeling in the same way that
the ocean deeply accepts every wave. What you are deeply accepts
every thought, every sensation, every feeling. In a way this is like
thought, the mind, what we're talking about really is way beyond
thoughts' idea of acceptance, because often our ideas of acceptance
are so conditional in a way, but in a way this is an unconditional
acceptance. The ocean accepts the waves without condition.
WIZARD: This reminds me of a conversation we had with a guest
a few weeks ago and this really cracked us up. We were talking
about acceptance, he says, everything's already always accepted.
[Laughs]
TRIP: Well let's take the polar opposite of that which is a child in
a tantrum feels free to be anxious, afraid, pissed off, or whatever,
right? You say the same is true of the true freedom that you
describe for yourself. So what's the difference if any between your
freedom and that of a child in a tantrum who feels free to be
enraged or whatever he wants to be?
JEFF FOSTER: Well I'm just wondering if a child who is having a
tantrum is really seeing that his or her personal experience is
deeply accepted. Let me just finish what I was saying about
acceptance, and then we'll come back to that. I think this is a
really crucial point. See the ocean accepts every wave, so it's like a
radical acceptance, so this is the beauty of it. The appearance of a
wave is the acceptance of a wave. It's not that the wave appears
and then it's accepted, the appearance of the wave is its
acceptance. As you said, Wizard, the wave is already, this is
absolutely crucial, the wave is already accepted, when it appears
its acceptance is its appearance. So this is like radical acceptance.
But here's the thing, it's an acceptance ultimately that that you are,
the acceptance that you are, what you are already accepts every
thought, every sensation, everything. And this is the beauty of it,
this is the real freedom, what's even accepted, everything that's
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