Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Levels, yes. He says, "Be all that you can be", and he was
chuckling it, he didn't mean to sound like a marine, but, "Be all
that you can be, the point being that the more of your dimensions
you engage in the quest to find the source of this crazy game of life,
the more likely you are to discover the stunning fact that you are
its one and only author, and that's not a theoretical proposition,
it's the very best chance we have to get our ticket to Athens", and
Athens is what… what do you call that magical… Babylon, what's
the other? There's Babylon and there's?
WIZARD: Zion.
TRIP: Zion, okay. So just in two minutes people are sometimes
confused by the emptiness of God, and so they start to think well
there's nothing be done, and there's no self improvement. But on
the other hand, good things tend to happen to those that actually
improve themselves, right?
RICHARD YOUNG: Yes.
TRIP: So what's the deal there? There's a dichotomy.
RICHARD YOUNG: This is the perennial question, especially
among people in the nondual tradition, they face this a lot. If
there's really nothing we can do, then why do we do anything?
And my answer to that is simple, because we do. It's not a matter
of setting out to design whether I'm going to pursue a spiritual
path or not, it simply happens, it simply is something that
expresses itself. And people think that if you really buy into the
idea of the emptiness of God, or the emptiness of reality that
you're going to sit around like a bump on the log, my experience is
that people who realize that Truth are the busiest people on the
planet. But here's something else I want to comment about the
emptiness of God. That's a misnomer; nothing could be further
from the Truth. God, reality, Truth, Oneness, whatever word
you're comfortable with, is conceptually empty, in other words
there's nothing there the mind can wrap itself around. So to the
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