Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: I think that's it, I mean I don't know about you, but it's fun
to sit around the campfire and talk about God, and what God is,
and how it's experienced, and that's a good one.
RICHARD YOUNG: Yes, I like that too.
TRIP: Radical absence is actually radical presence.
RICHARD YOUNG: I think the thought I had in mind as I wrote
that was the old saying, I'm sure you've heard, I don't know who
discovered water, but I know it wasn't a fish. It's the idea that we
are so absorbed in the divine, we are so much the divine ourselves
that we miss it. It's so much a part of our moment-to-moment
experience, we breath it, we live it, we feel it in every instant, so we
take it for granted.
WIZARD: So it's the constancy that hides it.
RICHARD YOUNG: Yes, that's right. It doesn't stand outside of
our experience for us to compare it to anything. It is our
experience, so there's no way to compare. And without that ability
to compare between this and that, the mind is lost, the mind can't
understand it, it can't even recognize it. And so God's absence is
really God's presence in our lives.
WIZARD: Well said.
TRIP: Hey, Richard, would you be interested in doing one of your
short-guided meditations, because I really enjoyed them. You had
one where somebody is flowing down a river, and then you had
another one flowing with the Tao, and then there was a walk on
the beach then with a child.
RICHARD YOUNG: Yes.
TRIP: You want to do any of those?
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