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<strong>Conversations</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>Avant</strong>-<strong>garde</strong> <strong>Sages</strong><br />

traveling several times a month, so 25 times a year or more I<br />

would get on a plane and go somewhere. And I think I just wore<br />

the traveling out. And for the last year and a half I've been saying<br />

that I'm on sabbatical, I'm just taking a break from all of that<br />

moving around. I just recently started giving Satsang again right<br />

here in Sedona where I live. But it's been nice to stop and rest for<br />

a bit from all of the traveling.<br />

WIZARD: Did you ever know Robert Adams?<br />

NIRMALA: I never met him. I came into this teaching when<br />

Robert Adams and Papaji had just died. But of course the wisdom<br />

is in every one of us. <strong>The</strong> wonderful thing now is that you don’t<br />

have to go to India, that same presence, and potential for<br />

awakening is coming alive everywhere.<br />

WIZARD: It's amazing. I'm amazed at how much in the cracks<br />

and crevices, in the woodwork, how much deep understanding<br />

there is. And as we affirm one another in Satsang, and how it<br />

comes out, and it's not owned by any religion, or teacher, or<br />

method, or anything.<br />

TRIP: You know that bumper sticker, what would Jesus do? Well,<br />

I don't know if this is a crass comparison, but I ask what would<br />

oneness do? And so I think one of the reasons that this movement<br />

is exploding, and so many people now seem to be awakening to<br />

this incredible Truth of who we are, is that it's pretty much how I<br />

now interrelate <strong>with</strong> everyone all the time. For example, a group<br />

of people were talking about founding an intentional community<br />

in our local community, and there's a gathering of 12 people there.<br />

Now if I had been there in the past I would have come on really<br />

strong <strong>with</strong> my deep ecological understanding of how to live<br />

sustainably, and I would have come across probably as a pedantic<br />

lecturer or something like that. But I saw that gathering as an<br />

opportunity to celebrate our oneness, and to describe how a<br />

community could come out of that oneness, and how every<br />

decision that would have to be made could easily be made in the<br />

moment, out of oneness, and no better decision could be made<br />

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