Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
NORIO KUSHI: Yes, that's correct.
TRIP: None of it ever appeared on or through your windshield,
but then in 2005 something happened, what happened?
NORIO KUSHI: Well, 2005, what stopped the thinking was
actually a combination of events that occurred, and what I now see
is that actually stopping thinking isn't a big deal. I mean, it's
great, it's wonderful, it's blissful, there's no separation between the
I and the big I, or whatever one wants to call it, and just this sense
of just being so complete and whole, and just this overwhelming
sense of unconditional love. So of course it's wonderful.
For me, what the big thing was; I call being hit on the head with
the cosmic two by four. And that's realizing that there is no self,
everything I thought I was, was just in thinking, and it took me
three days of no thinking for that cosmic two by four to hit me. So
to me that's really the big deal, because I see now that we probably
all have glimpses of silence, and we may not realize it. The reason
we don't realize it because, one, if it's a short amount of time our
chatter begins right up again, and even if it's a longer prolonged
period, maybe minutes or so, as soon as the chatter begins, the
phantom self returns and takes credit for the experience. There's
the illusion of a continuity of a phantom self always having been
there.
TRIP: Yes, and we're going to explore that, but before you dismiss
your two weeks of silence too readily, I think it's interesting to
note that here you were driving a big rig, which is a pretty
dangerous thing. And you obviously had to do a lot of directions
and this and that, and you were able to drive the big rig without
thinking.
NORIO KUSHI: Yes, absolutely. It turns out that 90% of thinking
is unnecessary.
WIZARD: Amen.
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