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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

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<strong>Conversations</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Avant</strong>-<strong>garde</strong> <strong>Sages</strong><br />

open up <strong>with</strong> everything I did. So that's what that encounter was<br />

about.<br />

TRIP: I'm about to walk away from a business, well not walking<br />

away… yes, I have to leave a business that I've been managing for<br />

five years. I manage a trailer park, and I've got a question for you<br />

about that, because I've been reflecting on this and I'm interested<br />

in your opinion. So for the entirety of my time that I was<br />

managing this trailer park, I refused to profile anybody, okay.<br />

Even though time and again one particular group did far more<br />

harm to me than any other, like 80% or 90% of the misbehaviors<br />

and costs that were heaped upon me there came from this one<br />

group, and I just never profiled, never profiled. And reading the<br />

stories about you, and the people that have showed up in your<br />

lives, or people that would show up and they were obviously down<br />

on their luck, or their teeth knocked out, or they had gang tattoos<br />

all over them. And you constantly just stayed <strong>with</strong> it, you refused<br />

to judge, you were open to the moment. I'm just wondering<br />

though, being like that, <strong>with</strong> this group and never profiling cost me<br />

a lot of aggravation, a lot of money. It's possible had I been more<br />

critical in my assessments of the people that I dealt <strong>with</strong> that I<br />

could have kept my business cash flow neutral, and maybe I could<br />

have hung on and earned additional money that would enable me<br />

to do more good in the world. I'm just curious, where do you draw<br />

the line between non-judgment and stupidity? I mean is it always<br />

worth the risk to be wide open to everyone all the time?<br />

JERRY WENNSTROM: Well, it's like I said earlier, I think you<br />

also have to be ruthless like the devil. Clearly you're a nice guy, I<br />

mean you're doing this radio show, you're somebody who cares,<br />

and you’re a loving person. I would say your challenge is healthy<br />

ruthlessness.<br />

TRIP: Thank you, I was hoping you would say that.<br />

JERRY WENNSTROM: <strong>The</strong> Bhagavad Gita says goodness is the<br />

final obstacle to God, that's your obstacle, you're not a bad person,<br />

and you have to learn healthy ruthlessness. And those guys, the<br />

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