Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: I get that, so what's the importance of the fact that it
actually already knows what it's seeking?
NORIO KUSHI: Well the value in being able to see that it's a lie,
it's revealed as a lie. Seeking, if we're hungry or if we're thirsty,
then we seek a drink, water. So in the physical manifest world
there is a place for the capacity to know what we want and seek it
out. The phantom self, which exists only as a linguistic distinction
in our thinking, adopts this same pattern and begins seeking
psychologically.
WIZARD: Ah… Yes!
TRIP: And it can never get really the drink that it seeks, even
though it knows unlike the water, which on the physical realm, it
knows it needs and gets and then is satisfied at least temporarily.
NORIO KUSHI: It's nourished, exactly.
TRIP: So that's a healthy kind of seeking, if you will, there's
nothing wrong with that.
WIZARD: That's a biological function.
NORIO KUSHI: Yes, exactly. And we should follow that, that
biological urge. If we're thirsty naturally we should take a drink.
And the reason in the email I say phantom self, but in actuality I
often use the term phantom selfing, more as a verb. And the
reason I use it as a verb is because in the silence once I got hit over
the head with the cosmic two by four, then the observer observed
all that disappeared, and any concept of that disappeared.
Then, as the days went by, more and more was revealed, I don't
even know if revealed is the right word, and I began to see
everything, one begins to perceive everything as energy, a
constantly flowing energy even in what we think are inanimate
objects like rocks, etc.
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