Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
Somewhere in the book it says, I think this is Chapter 12, and it's
also on the website by the way, but it says, "Did you ever stop to
ask yourself what makes Now be Now? Where does it come from?
What is that?" Do you know what I mean? It’s strange when you
say, well why should there be this thing called Now that we have?
Who decided that? Or where does that come from? And what it
is... is that it's the presence or the present-ness of what we call
awareness, or consciousness., And a little investigation or inquiry
shows that what we call awareness isn’t something that, or rather
Now, Now-ness or present-ness, isn't something that awareness is
aware of, but awareness and present-ness is the same one being,
they're the same, because one could not say there was a presence
without being aware, and one could not be aware without being
present.
WIZARD: Being absolutely still, it never began.
PETER DZIUBAN: Yes, yes. And right here, I'd like to continue a
little bit further with a point that a lot of times also doesn't come
up that much or maybe is overlooked, I don't know, but I think it's
very much worth emphasizing. To go back to what we were saying
with the apple there, and that the point of that whole example, and
by the way in Chapter 14, in the same way that an apple is
deconstructed, it does the same thing with the body in Chapter 14,
and shows that “body” too, really is just made out of so many
sensations. And Chapter 16 does it with what we call the world, a
material world. It is so easy to assume that there is a physical
body on a physical planet right Now, and what's called a planet is
just a bunch of sensations too. And there's nothing behind those
sensations called an object that's backing them up, they're just
those free-floating sensations. Everything really from the
standpoint of consciousness is just this non-material floatingness,
but it's not floating on anything, it's just its own
boundlessness.
WIZARD: That includes the universe.
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