Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: How true. You know the Wizard and I have spent
thousands of hours in Satsang and one of the things we've talked
about is this word "God", and one of the Wizard's favorite ways of
expressing God is just that word, capacity.
WIZARD: Yes, the self is like the host of hosts, it is pure capacity
because there's nothing in it. So acceptance leads you into that
nothingness that is pure capacity that allows forms to appear and
disappear without leaving a mark on that capacity, or diminishing
its capacity.
NIRMALA: And we're all equally endowed with the capacity to
know how true things are, how real things are, and it's just a
question of whether we recognize that capacity, whether we notice
it as it operates. The way our being distinguishes or discriminates
how true something is, is by the expansion or the contraction that
we feel in our sense of being.
I often say the Truth is whatever opens your heart, whatever gives
you an expanded, softer, fuller sense of your own Self. Everyone
has always had this capacity, it's always been functional in
everybody, because when our sense of Self contracts, when it feels
small, or inadequate, or unworthy, or incomplete, it's also working
perfectly in those contractions to show us that whatever we're
thinking, or feeling, or desiring in that moment is actually not very
true, not very important, not very real.
WIZARD: One of my favorite quotes of Ramana Maharshi was
enlightenment is giving up, relinquishing the idea that you're not
enlightened. [Laughs]
NIRMALA: If you have this idea that you're not, that will of course
limit your experience, it will give you a narrower experience, a
narrower channel for your awareness to flow in, so you will feel
constricted, you'll feel limited. And that's the right way to feel
when you have that not very true thought.
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