Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
action is perfect, and we were a little stunned with that. But upon
reflection if every action is perfect, anything that's ever happened
is perfect, anything that's ever going to happen is perfect, and it
puts that narrator ego-I out of a job.
RICHARD YOUNG: It does. It sure does.
TRIP: Another one that's hard for people to stomach is this idea
that there really aren't any problems, and the Wizard and I we're
pretty fond of that, but you've got a beautiful way of saying it, you
say, "Where there is no personal self, there's absolutely no
problem". I think that's a very elegant statement. Wizard, I think
we need to put that one up somewhere.
WIZARD: Amen. We'll put that quote up.
TRIP: You want to elaborate on that?
RICHARD YOUNG: Yes, I do. This idea of a personal entity, of a
personal self is an illusion, it's not real. If you go looking for that
self you are never going to find it, yet it's an assumption that's
rarely questioned. And it is that illusion of self that causes all of
our pain and suffering, because we imagine that all of these things
are happening to this self, rather than just being a flow of energy
in this amazing playground called life. So once that illusion is seen
through, and I don't know any other way to do that other than go
look for it until you give up the search because you can't find it.
You go look for it, it's not there, you let go of that illusion, or more
accurately, there's nobody here to let go of it, the illusion simply
drops away. But with it drops away all of the things that were
attendant to it, the seeking drops away, the problems drop away,
the sense of person or individuality drops away. The sense of
being a separate entity adrift here in this sea of life by yourself
trying to connect as best you can with other separate selves, all of
that drops away. And what's left is this amazing, glowing,
understanding that you've never been separate, you've never been
alone, you've never been by yourself, there's never been anything
amiss, all things are well, and all manner of things will be well.
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