Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
didn't create but that's inside of me. And I just think it's an
absolute critical thing, sincerity. Can you talk about sincerity?
MATT KAHN: Yes, well sincerity begins as a willingness to blame
no one and expect nothing. What we could say, if we could speak
about what sincerity is it's a space that is naturally void of blame
or expectation. And of course it then sometimes is confused with
people trying to cultivate that. Whereas, on a spiritual journey, a
spiritual journey begins with the arising and recognition of, or the
valuing of, sincerity; and one doesn't have to work hard to create
that sincerity, because life is its own beautiful teacher that will in
its own way break every one down, or break down every barrier
that undermines or gets in the way of sincerity.
And what I find is that what creates that spiritual impulse to lead
someone to exploring more than just what their eyes can perceive,
is when they've gotten to a place in their life, whether life has
broken them down for whatever situation has happened, or there's
just all of a sudden a spontaneous realization of valuing the
direction sincerity will take you. And the ironic thing is that
sincerity will take you in the direction where it appears as if in
your everyday personal life you're being guided to speak whatever
Truth arises in your heart. What I find is profoundly ironic is that
the willingness to speak the personal Truth in every single
personal encounter becomes the sole trajectory that leads you on a
journey to unknowingly realize yourself as that impersonal
internal space, that has no personal will whatsoever.
So it's ironic that it is the willingness to speak your personal Truth,
almost like an initiation onto a road that you don't know is leading
you into the complete unraveling of the person who's been
speaking the Truth. For me the realization was you're not the one
who speaks the Truth, you're the Truth that speaks. Just the act of
speaking is a celebration of the Truth, and what people are saying
is a matter of the meaning that we give to the words that we hear,
that when we listen with the depths of our true heartfelt sincerity;
we're actually just hearing sounds that are disappearing as quickly
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