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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
toothless guys with the tattoos would respect you if you held your
own. It's like if you let them walk all over you, it doesn't mean to
be a doormat, it also doesn't mean to be violent.
I like the story Yogananda, there's a story about a snake and the
snake keeps biting people, it was a cobra, and it's one of those
Indian stories, and every time somebody would come near the
snake it would bite him, and he was killing all these people. And
one day a saint came walking through town and the snake bit him,
and the saint just did his little saint thing, and he instantly was
healed. And the cobra says, "Oh, I'm in trouble now, I just bit a
saint". And so the cobra says, "Oh, I'm so sorry I bit you, and
you're a saint, how do I repent?" And the saint said, "Don't bite
anyone anymore, no more biting". So the saint comes back a year
later and the snake is totally emaciated, and he's all beaten up.
And the saint says, "Well, Mr. Snake, what happened to you?" And
the snake says, "Well you told me not to bite, and this is what the
people have done to me, they beat me, they kick me, and I don't
bite them". And the saint said, "Well I didn't say you couldn't
hiss". [Laughs]
TRIP: You've been willing to be hungry, one day you were really
hungry, you were standing in the rain at the end of your rope, a
$20 bill floated by in the gutter. Of that experience you say,
during this 15 year period that you just surrendered to life, you say
"I was fed that day and every other day the Gods chose to feed me,
and when they did not, I did not eat".
Very few people in life willingly, especially in America, we’re like
an obese country, willingly subject themselves to that. I mean, I've
only been really hungry once, it was on a survival camping thing,
and it was only one day. And it was in the rain, and it was cold,
and I was paddling a canoe the entire day, so I went 24 hours
without eating. I was really, really hungry at the end of that, but I
was never hungry like you were, were I was like losing body
weight, and really hungry. What are the benefits of that, what
came of that for you? What did you learn from that?
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