Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

WIZARD: Yes.
Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Yes. And in this time of chaos in the world, and there's all
kinds of crazy stuff going on, you talk about how when you were
sitting in that redwood forest back there, when you were getting
clear, there was world peace in that chair that you were sitting in,
that redwood forest, because there was no one there to change,
influence, or control anything, you were simply part of the
landscape. So what does that say about so many people out there
agitating for world peace, then they're out there and they're
rattling the bars and all that. I think you might suggest there's
another way to get to world peace, right?
ROBERT WOLFE: Well it's a very difficult thing for people to deal
with, but basically what these teachings are telling us is that there
is at this present moment a particular reality, we may not like what
that reality is, but it's present, it's a present reality. We can hope
that it was otherwise, or wish that it was otherwise, but that
doesn't change the fact it's still the present reality, regardless of
what we feel about it, or think about it, or wish about it, or hope
about it.
So these teachings are telling us to come to terms with what's
present, be present with what is. And it doesn't say that we have
to like what is, but we're talking about being present with what is,
as opposed to continually seeking things to be other than they are,
wishing, hoping, things would be other than they are. And it's this
sense of hoping and wishing that things were other than they are
which causes what is called idealism, we have an idea that
something should be this way, or should be that way, when it isn't
that way. And these ideas translate into idealism, the world
should be this way, people should be that way. And so our effort is
to control and manipulate and so on to try to make our ideals
reality. The point of these teachings is to be present with what's
present, rather than seeking to have the world be the way you
think it ought to be.
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