Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
So that means there is no degree of separation between us and
anything in the universe, and that all living beings at heart are
only that awareness, that pure awareness that gives rise to
everything.
WIZARD: So the root cause of greed is the “I am the body” notion.
MORGAN CARAWAY: Right, the ego idea, the idea of being
separate and apart, and identification with the mind/body
appearance.
WIZARD: To cut the limbs off the trees doesn't kill the tree.
MORGAN CARAWAY: Right, it's like cutting the heads of the
hydra, you cut a head off, and two more grow back. You're there
forever, and there's more and more heads. It won't solve it.
WIZARD: You've got to go to the root.
MORGAN CARAWAY: To the heart of it, yes.
WIZARD: Which is this sense of separation.
MORGAN CARAWAY: Right. Which our culture fully embraces
and believes in, and most cultures or many of them have embraced
that. Some of the native American cultures, you guys have
probably some read about them, like the Black Elk Speaks, but
they couldn't relate to the idea of the one person having more
riches than they will ever need in life, and someone else being
homeless on the street. That just did not make any sense to them.
That wasn't the way their society was.
TRIP: Well this conversation we're having about folks who are
motivated by greed brings me another question for you. You
write, "There isn't a spiritual in-club, those who have gotten it and
those who haven't". I want to challenge you on that one, and again
it's this thing between the relative and the absolute. But obviously
on the absolute level everyone already is it, so they can't get it
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