Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
silent state, there really is no thought whether or not there is free
will or not within them, unless a questions asked that pertains to
that. It's just a state of just being, and recognizing that all
movements in consciousness, everything exists on the level of the
mind, and as long as the mind is externalized, there's thought, and
concepts, and philosophies, and religious dogmas, and when the
mind is turned inward, there's the Self.
WIZARD: I've noticed that when one is enjoying synchronicity, or
in the zone, that free will is without the doership, and there's no
dilemma in it, there's no dilemma of choice in it. It's just the Ithought
that suffers the dilemma of choice. And it's just a second
guesser, it's like the narrator that reports a game, it can have its
opinions and say whatever it wants, but the narrator's not going to
change the outcome of the game. [Laughter]
TRIP: Hey, Nick, here is my buffoon question of the hour. Okay,
so [Laughs], this is to demonstrate my banality and my
buffoonery, but your Enlightenment Is workshop photo that I
looked at on the web, it's comprised of very attractive people.
Since there are no coincidences, I'm wondering what draws
attractive looking people to your workshop? [Laughs]
TRIP: Yes they're all beautiful, like 10 hotties, and, they're all
smiling, and I'm like, wow! But it's true, isn't it; I see that
attractive people tend to be turned on by self-inquiry. What do
you think? [Laughs] You don't have to touch it, if you don't want
to, you can just let it go [Laughing].
NICK GANCITANO: It doesn't necessarily have to be that. A
degree of suffering is derived from realizing that maybe someone's
good looks are not going to bring them that crystal carrot. And so
often times, someone who is heavily invested in their appearance
and will find that there really is no happiness in that, whereas
someone who does not feel themselves to be attractive, they may
aspire to find that out first. And that often times can take a while,
it can take a lifetime of dealing with things. I can't say that that's
the reason why those particular people, I'm not sure exactly what
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