Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
teachers, and had done a lot of prep work, but those teachers,
including Osho, always put enlightenment in the future, and
Papaji was the one that helped us see that it's Now. And being in
his presence is Shaktipat, which was huge, his Buddha field,
allowed us to fall into that silence where we could recognize it.
And he really only had one teaching, it was, "Keep quiet". But all
the teachings happened around him like any other guru, there's a
circus that comes around him, and all the people who push to get
close, and be special. And as a guru myself, I know that that's
required to help the whole thing happen, the whole organization,
which is no organization.
He didn't want to have an ashram, that's why he was the perfect
guru for me, because he was the role model in which I mirrored
myself in so that I could serve, once I realized Self is indeed to
share it. And not remove people from the struggle, Trip, but give
people an option, okay, to veer from the Papaji conversation. The
conditioning of the mind is one thing, but the conditioning of the
mind in America is another, and I feel people have been dumbed
down so that they can be controlled, and I feel religion has done
that for ages.
WIZARD: Amen.
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: To control the masses. So Papaji just
freed us from all of that. And one of the great things, because I
was the guru buster before I went to India 15 years ago, I was
going around and looking at who was the real deal, who wasn't,
who was misleading people; the same part of me who's challenging
the Government today, and our political leaders, because I feel like
those people… and you seem to be like that person, Trip [Laughs].
We need to oust them, keeping people in check, keeping the
leaders in check, right.
So when I walked in and saw Papaji the first time, no, before that
actually, when I met his assistance who brought me to one of the
housings that they had nearby for me to stay, I said to him, "How
long have you been with Papaji?" And he said, "Three years". And
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