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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 />

notion even that presence has existed before. This is why more<br />

and more when talking this way I use the term present-ness to<br />

emphasize that it's this instant and it's absolutely history-less, not<br />

even the present itself, or presence or being can be said to have<br />

been before.<br />

TRIP: Yes, and yet there is this rock, there's this rock, and this is<br />

contrary to like the popular stuff you hear in songs where the one<br />

thing you can count on is that things will always change, that?<br />

And so people, who have all of these concepts obliterated by the<br />

stuff that you're staying right Now, they're a little bit lost but there<br />

is this rock, it's the infallibility that you say, okay. <strong>The</strong> absolute<br />

infallibility of consciousness, and its absolute certainty it is always<br />

there, it's your friend [Laughs].<br />

WIZARD: Led Zeppelin said in A Stairway to Heaven to be a rock<br />

and not to roll.<br />

PETER DZIUBAN: Yes.<br />

TRIP: So like last night after reading your work I was lying in bed,<br />

I was just filled <strong>with</strong> this expansive joy, it was just radiating. And<br />

it's the joy of that always count-upon-able…<br />

PETER DZIUBAN: Yes, that's a great way to put it. Yes. It's like,<br />

yes, sometimes we use expressions like, yes, just let go, just fall<br />

into your own infallibility, or un-go-away-able-ness. And that<br />

sounds dualistic I know, like there's a me and an it, but it’s just a<br />

total "letting go into that", all of a sudden it's clear, well, wait a<br />

minute, nothing's going to go away, and it's not like you are<br />

dropping into this boundless expanse, the boundless expanse is<br />

you.<br />

WIZARD: Is already.<br />

PETER DZIUBAN: Yes. And there's no bottom, so you can't fall.<br />

<strong>The</strong> notion of bottom is just a concept, so there's no possibility of<br />

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