Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: No. [Laughs] I've tried to avoid that, I'm
successfully able to do so. But I work, I mean seemingly I work a
lot, I'm constantly talking with people and emailing with people,
and out and about, and I try to make myself very available to
people who just want to talk about whatever, whatever they want
to talk about. I mean, I'm not a therapist so definitely I
recommend people who have real big issues to go see therapists,
I'm not trained in mental health issues, I don't try to pretend I'm
something I'm not. But for the most part I must meet with people
like this, and we play, like that.
TRIP: So tell us about being perfect, why are you so convinced?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Well it's not something that has to be
convinced, it's obvious. This is it; this is the way it is. So
perfection's a really loaded word, we can hear perfect and think,
oh well that means I get what I want all the time, but that's not
what I mean.
TRIP: So, for the person out there that doesn't feel perfect and has
issues and problems, and life is a struggle, what would you like
them to know? What would you like to tell the person that doesn't
feel perfect?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: That it's perfect, it's okay not to feel
perfect. I think in some ways it's just the total allowance to be who
we are, wherever we are, as we are, is its own freedom, but even
not feeling free is perfect, is part of the… I don't really have an
agenda for other people because it doesn't feel good for me to have
something I want you to be, you're already whatever you are. So I
just hang out with that. You'll do what you do; I'm not in charge of
anything.
TRIP: When you're meeting with folks, you're not really taking on
the responsibility of hoping that they'll feel better or something?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: No, no. Because they don't have to feel
better, who do I think I am? I mean, I'm okay if you suffer, I'll sit
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