Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Have you read the works or spent time with a teacher or
anything like that?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: No, not one-on-one, I've definitely read a
ton in my life. Now I can't read which is… [Laughs]
TRIP: Okay. You can't read?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: No, I pick up a book and it's like it doesn't
last, like something just starts to laugh and it won't really follow a
page, it's really wild. I actually like reading so I'm like, hey, I hope
this goes away [Laughs], but it won't really last.
TRIP: We interview as lot of sages here and we call them avantgarde
sages, and each one has pretty much got it, what this
underlying reality is all about, but each one brings a fresh and
unique perspective that’s the marriage of their incarnation and
their life experience with this ultimate reality. They have a way of
talking about it, so we had a guest on last week, Jeff Foster, and he
speaks to an intimacy, and right now he's on radical acceptance.
Everything is already accepted, so you don't have to proactively
accept anything, it's already accepted. So that’s a fresh insight that
he brings. Is there something that you feel is really… you're
passionate about that's an aspect of this Truth that you want to
share right now?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Well I don't know anything for anyone
else. I notice that there's a lot of ways to come up with different
narratives, and like positions from which to view everything from,
but I don't have something specific. Because I notice in my own
experience like there's so much playing that goes on, that it's like
one thing doesn't really ever stick. And that being said, there
might be an answer, I don't necessarily have one right now.
Whatever is happening now is whatever is listening, is listening in
all of these bodies, not only in this room, but wherever the speaker
is, if it's in the car right now, or it's in the house, whatever is
hearing this sound is exactly the same thing, but that's just a
poetic way to try to talk about a unity that is also another poetic
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