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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
that same Now lends its sentience to the I-thought as we go
through the world, but then we get through with the day and we
take a nap, we go to sleep, we go in a dreamless sleep and the
whole thing is gone, the I-thought along with the whole play of the
forms, and they're not different, they arise together and set
together. But there's that within which, like a theatre, that within
which the play of consciousness arises and dissolves within.
ALBERT NAHMANI: That's wonderful, thank you for that, John.
TRIP: I don't know if you consider yourself a teacher, Albert, but I
really think you are an excellent teacher, and I think you write
extremely well. I want to read another thing that you wrote that
addresses something that so many people deal with. Many people
suffer from not letting go of hurts in the past, and in your book you
spoke eloquently about how a person deals with that. I'd like to
read that if I may.
ALBERT NAHMANI: Please.
TRIP: You say, "So first I need to review whatever ails me, let it sit
on my lap and reveal its sorrow, my mind will fight this and will
create a thought that says, fly, run away, move, do something but
do not stay here. Fear will overwhelm me but I will keep trying to
welcome this process until my painful past reveals itself. I will tell
my fear it is all right. I will cry and compassionately embrace
whatever or whoever made me suffer because they themselves had
incurred suffering which is why they are passing it on. I must free
myself from this vicious circle; I need to see all of this suffering in
a deep and total way so that I can break the shackles from my past.
Otherwise I can never be free to be within my presence right here
right Now, as I still would be dwelling in my past. Free at last, I
can now expand in my true limitless lively exciting childlike and
compassionate Beingness". That is so beautiful.
ALBERT NAHMANI: You read it so well.
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