Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
heady stuff, the metaphysical stuff really gets one or can get one to
the mystical, where all that is then laid aside, and where at a
certain point I always found one teaching that had totally
resonated. Like for example A Course in Miracles for some years
where the words were like a life essence, they were like my daily
food, or something. I know almost the whole course word by word
still, by heart.
And one day it just stopped working, like there was nothing in it,
and it felt bland and there wasn't any life, nothing jumped out
anymore, and I was just done with it. And there was a short
period of almost grieving for that, and short period of
disorientation, and then another teaching would come in and it
would be Ramana Maharshi for many years, then Nisargadatta,
and the Atma Darshan. Yes, that seemed to happen, and then
Ganga ji as well. And I also met many of these people and it was a
palpable transmission at times, and I just felt their essence and I
felt the sameness, and I was treated with the sameness, and with a
unconditional love, with an absolute spaciousness and clarity, and
that taught me that those people were real, that the teaching was
real, what they were saying. That there wasn't something to have
followers, or any of that, I never fancied anything like a guru
relationship, to a devotee, or any of that was not for me. I always
thought, no, no, we have to… there's no way around it, there's no
easy way. And I totally respect that that works for many people
and that for many people that is the ultimate way. Just wasn't the
way here, I always found I had to find it myself, I had to go
through every detour or every necessary step. I just love how
every human life is so utterly unique, and how one cannot really
compare one life to another one, because one doesn't walk in other
people's shoes.
WIZARD: There are models. No models of behavior.
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Absolutely, beautiful.
WIZARD: The transmissions are like the transmissions of a
mirror, they're just reflections, there's really no movement.
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