Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

WIZARD: Is.
Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
REGINA AKERS: Is.
TRIP: Speaking of Is, in those Seven Steps to Awakening, and I
don't know if those were yours or you were speaking a lot about
Nisargadatta when you were sharing them, but this right here that
you said is the most concise, complete instruction for living I've
ever read. This is what she said, "Be with whatever is in peace".
WIZARD: Amen, Amen.
TRIP: That is it.
REGINA AKERS: And again you can hear “is” in that. Just to let
you know about The Seven Steps to Awakening, that's just
something that I felt to spend my time with this year. It's actually,
it's both me and it's not me, in as far as there's a book called The
Seven Steps to Awakening, which is a collection of quotes by
people like Ramana Maharshi, Muruganar, Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj, and others. And what I am doing is reading the quotes,
contemplating them, and then writing from within myself. So
when I teach from The Seven Steps, first I read the quote, and then
I read what I wrote after contemplation. So the journal is of my
Self, and what you just read was of my Self, but when I'm teaching
I'm reading both. So that's what The Seven Steps is.
TRIP: Well it's a very effective teaching style, and you use
repetition, this is an interesting thing to maybe talk about;
Repetition. You know, everyone, all good teachers seem to use
repetition a great deal. And Wizard, you use repetition a lot, and I
find the repetition to be extraordinarily helpful, because it's really
difficult to incorporate all of this into yourself and own it without
repetition over, and over, and over again. I see you use it to great
effect.
WIZARD: It's like a mantra; it creates a Vasana, or an impression,
that becomes a part of your Dharma. So it's taking the tool to
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