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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

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

NORIO KUSHI: Okay. Steve Earl is in Richmond, Virginia. I met<br />

him when I was 18 in Japan in 1974, and although he said we<br />

actually met before that. And we've remained friends, and he and<br />

I have both been along similar inquiries throughout most of our<br />

life. And he's someone who can really articulate the power of<br />

language, and what language really does, and that's why I sent you<br />

an email suggesting he be one of your guests. Because currently<br />

language is, we're born into a way of language, this human<br />

tapestry already created. Once we recognize the power of<br />

language, we can recreate this human tapestry into a completely<br />

different thing, virtually overnight.<br />

TRIP: I have a question for you about that, quickly, because it's<br />

just something I've always wanted to know what you think about<br />

this. Is there any usefulness in trying to change the way you<br />

speak, because for example the <strong>Wizard</strong>'s mentor, Jamesy, he<br />

wouldn't say the word you, he would just say I and I, he didn't<br />

want to go there <strong>with</strong> that word. I mean, would there be some<br />

utility in… I mean I could think of ways to stop speaking<br />

dualistically to a degree, but is there any value in trying to do that<br />

or not?<br />

NORIO KUSHI: Well the duality, the issue of duality is only in the<br />

thinking, and which is also language, and the language in our<br />

thoughts. I think that the pronouns do serve a useful distinction,<br />

as long as we know that that's what they are. I don't think there's<br />

any problem <strong>with</strong> that. Once we recognize this language, we'll<br />

evolve to a way of speaking where we may no longer use that. <strong>The</strong><br />

language doesn't happen singularly, it happens <strong>with</strong>in society <strong>with</strong><br />

each other. It's not me personally, doing anything. <strong>The</strong> language<br />

is the capacity, the reality the human tapestry has created in<br />

conjunction <strong>with</strong> other people.<br />

WIZARD: Thank you, Norio.<br />

NORIO KUSHI: Thank you so much too.<br />

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