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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
when the humility arises in them to actually hear. I don't
necessary think that I communicate it any better, maybe just to
certain people since there seems to be a streak now of people
who've been going through some climatic shifts with regard to the
economy, and their spiritual direction, and that type of thing. So
people are open to hearing it, particularly when someone has in a
similar life's work that they've been and that type of thing. And
having been a school teacher, and having had to find different
ways to articulate things that were not understood at first by
students, it forces you to have to be a little bit of a shape shifter, or
be able to adapt to when you sense that people are not really
hearing what you're saying, or not resonating with the way it's
being explained so that it can be. But really ultimately the
teaching is of course is in silence, but being able to prepare
someone to be receptive and to approach it in many different
directions so that if the mind comes up with any sense of
resistance to it that or if there is any conditioning that does not
allow it to actually land on soft ears, then of course the way that
it's articulated can have somewhat of an effect, which I feel has
occurred with the people that I've been working with in close
proximity, and in regular Satsang.
TRIP: Cool. Well speaking of your teaching, I thought it would be
fun just to explore briefly the place-kicker who's applying your
techniques who's in The Zone, who is hearing nothing, maybe he's
seeing nothing but the ball and the goalposts, and he effortlessly
drives it through. What exactly is his condition and how does it
differ from ordinarily consciousness?
NICK GANCITANO: An athlete generally exerts practice, in other
words, effort, in order to practice a skill, in order to become
effective at what they do. In this regard you're conditioning the
mind to move into an effortless state where the arising of
limitations or fears that pull you into the intellect in an attempt to
analyze the situation does not arise when the attention is turned
back in towards the Self. And so if you're with someone and they
don't even really need to know much other than the basics, but to
remember to just feel themselves, and then the body automatically
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