Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: For sure. But while we may not do anything in that
realization, there's a dramatic message you say, Robert, and it's
abundantly clear. "Exposure to profound illumination is exposure
to definite risk of radical transformation of one's material
existence or security. The willingness to risk is not separate from
the openness to awakening. One who is not willing to take this
risk of possessions, career, family, security, stature, future, and
past, has encountered the first barrier of the eye of the needle". I
love the way you write, you are good, dude. So good.
ROBERT WOLFE: Thank you.
TRIP: But that's true, you don’t know where it's going to take you,
so you have to willing to risk it all, right, Robert?
ROBERT WOLFE: Well at the risk of sounding overly dramatic,
basically, what we're talking about is moving from the known to
the unknown. Krishnamurti titled one of his books, let me think
what the title was… anyway, if we are going to leave ourselves
open to the light that leads us, then we have to be willing to follow
where that light leads, and you can't know ahead of time what
that's going to mean. This is basically a risk in a sense that if we
would say that we're going to cease to be attached to the separative
conditions that we're accustomed to, the separative ideas,
relationships and so on, then this is going to represent a different
way of living.
As I was starting to say about the Krishnamurti title of the book,
having to do with the wholly different way of living, title of a book,
A Wholly Different Way of Living. We're talking about a wholly
different way of living in the sense that when one lives from this
nondual awareness, things change, behavior changes,
circumstances change, relationships change. So if you're not up
for change, then this is going to present a problem. So again
without making it sound overly dramatic, we're talking about
change, we're talking about moving into a way of living that is in
some ways unpredictable, and to that extent some people find that
threatening.
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