Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: Boy, do you ever need a book. That little letter you
wrote to Trip last night was bingo. I put it on the conversations
group page; I thought so much of it. You have a real gift of sharing
that can affirm folks who have had just a glimpse of the silence,
and need the affirmation to become established. You've got a
tremendous gift there to share.
NORIO KUSHI: Well thank you. Well, as you know, it has
nothing to do with me. [Laughs]
TRIP: I think there are some other things that are very uplifting
and instructive about you and your life. One is that you chose to
drive a big rig, because it brings you joy, and you had the courage
to do that when you could have pursued what other people would
have looked upon as a more sort of big deal career, and say in
business or something like that. And the other thing, here you are,
you’re a truck driver, and look at how articulate and amazing a
man you are, how established you are. So my point being that
none of this came through book learning, or through even
association with a guru, or anything, you just had an ah-ha
moment and then you went and looked at that and said, well what
about that? The insights just came.
WIZARD: Clean as a whistle.
NORIO KUSHI: Yes. Introduced during the concept of time. I
make it sound like it just happened, at the same time there are
insights along the road, and events that caused me to start
inquiring into all of this. But it was not from a religious or
spiritual perspective whatsoever. I didn't consider it spirituality.
Nor did I even associate stopping thinking and any of this to the
term enlightenment, it was nine months later when I was doing a
talk over in Europe that after I began sharing this experience that
someone asked me, you mean, you're enlightened?
WIZARD: Where is Steve Earl in all this? He was my first host to
Japan. He's a wonderful man but I had no idea that he was…
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