Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
ALBERT NAHMANI: Yes. Again those are the words that each
one of us will interpret in their own way, depending on what they
mean by those words. And that's what to be careful of. And I will
always fail in doing so; however, we will try to. This absolute
reality, I call it an experience only because it shows that it has not
left me, this body vessel. It seems to have been embedded into the
body cells, body mind cells, if there is such a thing. I've waited for
many, many years to see what this experience was going to bring
about, and by looking back we can see it has been changing slowly
and gradually, one's perception of the world and of the me.
I'm sure I'm not answering your question but…
TRIP: No, that's fine; you did a good job answering my question.
I've got a follow up which you've now …
WIZARD: The constant is Now.
ALBERT NAHMANI: Yes. I'd like to say that the absolute reality
is this here, Now. And that's the best I can do on that in some
ways, because the more you say it, the further away you get from
this. And this being all that is being experienced right Now, at this
moment, without a concept of separation of the me, of this.
WIZARD: And Now, by itself, doesn't have any concepts.
ALBERT NAHMANI: That's right, John.
TRIP: I like the answer that you gave someone who asked you a
question which is almost the question that anybody would want to
ask a spiritual teacher and the question was: how do I abide as
that? [Laughing]
ALBERT NAHMANI: Like a bicycle ride.
TRIP: And you had a good answer because you took them down
the typical way it goes down. It would be interesting if you can
pull that out of your hat again, share what's the typical way that
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