Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
and nothing to do, the work's been done, it's finished, it's been
done. Nothing needed to be done, but it's been done and Now
we're here. Now we're here, no one going nowhere, wow.
WIZARD: Peaceful.
TRIP: Hey, I'm going to play a little parlor game with you
[Laughs]. I'm going to put you on the spot, okay, but this is for
fun, because I think you're going to be able to do this.
WIZARD: Trip's a rascal.
TRIP: I'm a rascal. But it is a trick parlor game that I just created
for you, all right. Okay, so we've got this friend, his name is
Ganesan, and he once told me a story that really, really, really,
rocked me, because it was my first glimpse into what someone
who is walking in unconditioned awareness experiences, right,
versus the ordinary consciousness that I was walking around with.
Okay, so he tells this story and he told it from the perspective of
the ordinary person and then the sage. I'm going to tell the
ordinary person's perspective, and then I'm going to start with the
sage's and I'm going to let you finish you. Alright.
PETER FENNER: [Laughs] Okay.
TRIP: Yes, but don't worry if it doesn't work out. Okay. So the
ordinary person, he's walking down this path, and up in front
there's a shiny object on the ground. So there's an immediate
perception, wow, shiny object, a nanosecond after that perception
he's thinking, oh, that could be a piece of gold that someone
dropped on the ground. So there's an immediate differentiation
that goes down. Then a nanosecond following on that is the idea,
wow that could be worth something, I'll think I'll go over there and
check it out. So the person walks over there and they reach down
and they pick it up, and they look it up, and they saw it's just a
gum wrapper, and they go, ah, just a piece of junk, and they toss it
on the ground. Okay. Now there's an encapsulation of the
traditional thought forms that go through a human being's mind
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