Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
persists to constantly search and move in order to keep it this
vessel, this body alive in this planet. But where the problem
begins is when it takes back for itself credit for that which is
witnessing this conversation, and very furtively in a split second it
takes it back and really it is that. And in so doing it shrinks the
limitless, dimensionless, witnessing experience, silent and
beautiful experience, into this busy mind, and a narrow mind,
limits it.
WIZARD: Because the mind can never know.
ALBERT NAHMANI: That's right.
WIZARD: The mind is not the proper tool.
ALBERT NAHMANI: That's what I find, that people have the
hardest time with is in just realizing that the mind, or the little me,
is like a dog chasing its own tail, and they are locked in into a
closed circuit. And as I put that question, so if you know this for
sure, if you truly understand this statement right here, what do
you do? What can you do? What is there to be done? The answer
is nothing. [Laughing] There's nothing to be done. It just didn't
work, you exhaust yourself, and you must just sit. When a dog
keeps running after its tail, eventually it just sits because it has
exhausted itself. And that's the image I like to give because it
really feels that way, it's exhausting to keep searching for one's
self.
WIZARD: So the mind exhausts its remedies?
ALBERT NAHMANI: Yes, and that's how we find its limits.
TRIP: You said that in Hebrew the word for that sitting I guess in
exhaustion and surrendering to the "spiritual world" is called
Shabbat, right? And you said that every religion has a word for
that, I was wondering is there a word in Christianity for sitting
surrendered?
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