Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
with almost every experience that they undertaken. Now the sage
walks down the path, and there's the perception of a shiny object,
now what?
PETER FENNER: Wow. Well it's like you could walk closer to
that, that's a possibility, but equally that shiny object could recede
from our field of awareness, right, because we're not being driven
or captivated by what looks good or what looks interesting or
uninteresting. So for me it's this idea of not knowing what is going
to be happening next. So for the sage, the sage does not know,
does not need to know what will be happening moment by
moment. It's this notion of the ever-fresh presence of awareness.
TRIP: Exactly.
WIZARD: The Mystery.
TRIP: Exactly. The sage doesn't do anything [Laughs]. Just shiny
object and that's it, no let me go over there and pick that thing up
and see if it's a piece of gold, and then I'm going to have some
more money, none of that.
PETER FENNER: Lovely.
TRIP: It was lovely, that was my first taste. I love that. One of the
things that you mention several times in your book is this concept
of broadening the river of life.
PETER FENNER: Yes. Well I think that naturally happens when
we rest more in awareness and that we become less involved with
the particular events of our life that there's a broadening. So
there's an enhanced capacity to receive whatever is arising,
particularly in terms of pleasure and pain, it's possible to
experience pain or more intense pain without freaking out,
without thinking that it shouldn't be happening, hey what have I
got to do, what's wrong, what do I do to alleviate this? So we have
an increased capacity to just receive the sensations that can be
produced by our mind and nervous system without needing to
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