Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Well I've got some challenging questions, and some easy
ones. I want to launch into one here. You're here, it says on our
ad for the show today that you're here in celebration of World
Peace Day.
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Yes, exactly. Today is International
World Peace Day, and Day of Gratitude, interestingly on the same
day. [Laughs]
TRIP: Well I love the idea of World Peace Day, but I'm going to
ask you a question. In a cosmos that is quite violent, even without
our participation, is it wise to seek peace in the world, or is it true,
is peace only available within us?
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Well, you make me think of the Tibetans
who were very peaceful people, Buddhists, spiritual. And the
Chinese Government took them over in the '50s, and they
surrendered peacefully. And the Chinese Government did horrible
things to the priests, and the nuns, and monks, and it was just a
horrible display of human violence towards another race. And yet
when I met a Lama a few years back in India, and he spoke of it, he
smiled when he showed me his former monastery, which is
gorgeous, and then he showed me the monastery in rubble. They
destroyed 13,000 monasteries, the Chinese Government, the
communist government.
So like that's the dance of humanity right there, and those of us
who are pacifists, what we don't lose is our peace, our love, our
life. We may lose our homes, we may lose our dignity, we may
even lose our life, but we don't lose the peace that we are when we
live beyond this realm, the way this Buddhist Lama was. He was
like the Dalai Lama. And that was a lesson I learned from him.
So my job is to just help inspire people to be the best they can be,
and I trust in the human spirit that people do really want love, and
everything they're doing is a strange way of getting it, whether it's
a lot of money, control, and power, all of those things. But they
really want love. So I believe if enough of us love ourselves, and
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