Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: I want to encourage anybody that's listening to go to your
website and read your free ebooks and blog posts, because the
writing can transport you. You have a great gift.
WIZARD: The address is www.endless-Satsang.com.
NIRMALA: There's also a free book of poetry, so there's a whole
book of poems that have that same heart opening effect.
Sometimes I won't pick up the book of poetry for years, and then
I'll literally have tears come to my eyes reading the poems even
though I wrote them myself, or as I sometimes say, they wrote me.
TRIP: I like to say that God is egalitarian because no matter who
you are or no matter what station in life, greatest riches available
to someone living this human condition is available to everyone,
there's no leg up on that. And it's just this simple awareness. I
just wanted you to comment some more on this unbelievably
simply yet profound experience that one has of one's own direct
awareness, I mean one's direct experience of awareness. You talk
about that in your writings where there's all of these books that
have been written, and all of these concepts that we use to point
out the Truth, but in the end we're all left with our direct
experience. Can you talk about that?
NIRMALA: I would just point to the awareness here right Now,
no matter how big or small. Of course the wonderful thing about a
big experience of awareness is that no one has to tell you what the
nature of awareness is because you're drowning in it when you're
having a huge experience of awareness. But then we tend to
overlook the fact that that same Mystery is here right now even in
a small experience of awareness in ordinary moment. I often say,
a single drop of water is still wet, and so all of the Mystery, all of
the beauty, all of the power of awareness is here right Now in
whatever awareness is hearing these words. It doesn't have to be a
big experience in order for there to be an exploration and
discovery about awareness itself. Awareness is like this very
fundamental quality of what we are, and so it's always present.
People sometimes say to me, something happened and I lost
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