Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
about various religious traditions, Buddhism, and so on, and we
were discussing reincarnation that day. And I'd said something
like the bad news is that it might take you 1,000 lifetimes to
become enlightened. And then I looked at this group of about 50
adults, very sophisticated, intelligent people, and I said, "But
what's the good news?" And I waited. And I waited. And nobody
raised their hand. I said, "Come on, this, what's the good news
about this theory of reincarnation?" And in the back of the room
my 12-year-old son is waving his arm in the air wanting me to call
on him, and I'm saying, "Well I don't know what he's going to say,
so please one of you adults give me the answer", nobody would. So
finally I pointed back down, I said, "Chad, what's the good news?"
He goes, "Dad, the good news is eventually everybody makes it".
WIZARD: Amen, amen.
RICHARD YOUNG: You should have seen the looks on those
adults' faces. I think they wanted him to teach the class after that.
TRIP: Well, that was wonderful. You know, here's another
beautiful chunk of yours, you say, "God's radical perceptual and
intellectual absence is God's total complete and undeniable
presence".
RICHARD YOUNG: I wrote that, eh?
TRIP: You're profound, yes.
WIZARD: It's good stuff.
RICHARD YOUNG: I don't know about that, you need to talk to
my wife.
TRIP: She's the ghostwriter, right?
RICHARD YOUNG: Yes, exactly, exactly.
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