Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
one ultimately ends up as that. There's a typical way that goes
down, right?
ALBERT NAHMANI: Well, I really have no recall of that
conversation, but if someone asks how I abide in that, I'm going to
make the assumption that that person has been awakened prior to
the I-thought, because then they would know what that means.
And then I take it from that, working from that assumption.
TRIP: Well, I'll get you going here…
ALBERT NAHMANI: And therefore, one who is truly awakened in
that almost knows that that question begs the question of what it
is that I'm awakened. In other words, the abiding happens on its
own, there is no I that is trying to understand how to abide. And
that's what John calls going from within to without, once we
realize that now we're slowing and gradually, after awakening, we
are viewing this world not as within only, but that this is also
without, outside; Seamless. That within and without is one, and
there is no separation there, when that separation seemingly is in
relation to us. It does so on its own, there is no doer there, and it
sneaks in on you slowly and gradually through the years that
affirmation, after awakening.
And what you're left with is awe of how this process is taking care
of itself so gradually, so gently, so slowly, and so unbeknown to
you in many ways. And one realizes that mostly when you're
looking back and see you're not the same Albert you used to be in
that way, if there is such a thing as Albert.
TRIP: Right. It can only be recognized in retrospect. Well you
talked about how…
WIZARD: How can you remember the Now outside the Now? I
mean you remember the effects, the imagery, but how could you
imagine Now outside of Now when Now is the antithesis of
imagination?
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