Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: So let me ask you something; does the higher power want
us to wake up; if so, why the struggle? We could be awakened
instantly by the higher power; therefore the struggle must be part
of the plan. If struggle is part of the plan, why should any of us
who have been fortunate to be awakened by the higher power lift a
finger in the name of consciousness rising?
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: What a great question, Trip. Damn
[Laughs]. That was awesome. Okay, so the trick is in the question
the one thing that you maybe are not pointing to is that we are the
higher power, so there is no separation. So, yes, any "struggle" is a
creation of the higher power, and we just say yes to what is. The
struggle is really a perception of the mind, it's also a creation of the
higher power, to experience that, or it experiences that through
that perception of it as struggle. It isn't struggle, it just what is.
The mind labels it as struggle, so the higher power is creating
whatever the circumstances are, but the mind labels it as a
struggle. So, no, lifting a finger, all the fingers mean lifting it is to
point, just lift a finger and point. What I just did just now, oh,
that's not a struggle, that's you creating a struggle, that's all.
WIZARD: Every action is perfect.
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Yes. When one is awake, one sees it,
every action is perfect, it's all happening in a divine play, a divine
flow, and the struggle is no different, Trip, than when you're asleep
and you want to sleep in and somebody's waking you up with the
alarm clock, that's all, which happened to me this morning. I was
up 'til one o'clock in the morning editing the teaser for Back from
Iraq, and then I woke up a 7.30, prior to my alarm, which was set
at 8.00, and I just meditated. But six hours of sleep is different
than the usual eight. Some people when they don't get enough
sleep, they resist waking up. So I say to people listening, are there
people listening, or is it just us [Laughs]? I say to the people
listening, enjoy the struggle, if that's what is happening, because
when you say yes to it, it moves. What we resist persists.
WIZARD: Yes, yes.
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