Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
be yourself, unadorned, what comes naturally, without regret, and
without trying to change yourself unless that comes naturally too.
So would you agree that being yourself is a good thing to be?
REGINA AKERS: Yes, there's another Seven Steps writing that's
later in the journal, that continues that insight about not
identifying with being anything, but it also gives the symbol of a
puppet in that when the puppet strings are pulled, the puppet
body moves. And so it's this understanding that I may teach, and I
may parent, and I may hike, and I may whatever. But that's
different from saying, I am a teacher, or really identifying with I
am a teacher, or I am a parent, or I am a hiker.
So it's the ability to allow the movement to happen in the way it
happens, allow the moment to be what the moment is, without
identifying with it. And if you're not identifying with it, then
you're not identifying with it in a prideful way, nor are you
identifying with it in a guilty or a regretful way. Those are just two
different sides of the identification coin. You're just, again,
allowing all things to be as they are, and allowing the movement to
happen, without identifying with it.
WIZARD: Trust the Mystery.
TRIP: You told a story that gave a sense to the nature of
enlightenment that was very down to earth, and we interview a lot
of avant-garde sages here that are in the woodwork, nobody knows
who they are; they're working in warehouses, and they've been
released from prisons, they're very ordinary. And they're willing
to share the ordinary parts of their lives, and they have their
relationship things that go on, and what have you. And they uplift
me because throughout all of it, they have equipoise. And you told
a beautiful story about this monk in the village, which I know is
maybe other people have heard it, because it's an Eckhart Tolle
story or something?
REGINA AKERS: Yes, I think it comes from his book, A New
Earth. I think that's where I saw it.
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