Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
whatever. Everybody deserves it, but everybody's responsible for
creating it themselves as well. So the need to war is when people
don't take care of themselves, they don't feel taken care of, and
they need to dominate another to get it. So it's coming back to the
source of that conflict, within that individual, that we heal, and
then hopefully the ripple effect creates critical mass.
WIZARD: Yes, peace begins with one's self.
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: That's right, Wizard. It's worldwide,
starts from inside, as my Luminaries' band sings.
TRIP: Let me ask you, I don't know whether your description of
yourself is a spiritual teacher or not, but I think you're involved in
certainly modeling certain kinds of spiritual teachings if you will.
If a young warrior came to you in your Satsang, how would you
help him, how would you both validate what he's currently
involved in, and also enlighten him? Or is there any
enlightenment necessary?
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Yes, I think you answered your own
question. A spiritual teacher, who can’t call himself a spiritual
teacher, because that's egotistical, and to enlighten someone is
also in a sense of egotistical. That wounded warrior, or that
warrior, is my own self, that's how I relate to everyone, including
you, Trip. So as a writer I get to tap into what's it like to be him,
and I did that through my movies, so that's how I relate to him,
that's my own self had I gone to war. So that's how I relate to
people, in Satsang especially, and give total space for them, their
creation, and their experience. It's the awakeness, or the
awareness, of who you are during that experience that I point to,
not necessarily changing the behavior, it's really becoming aware
of who you are as the behavior happens that changes the behavior
by itself, that's the highest good of the being. But I certainly would
honor any solider who sat in my Satsang just for their willingness
to do what they do, there's honor and valor in that movie. But it is
still a movie, is it not? So my job is to wake people up that their
life is just a movie, and to realize who they are.
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