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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
death, the original Greek manuscript is thought to have been
compiled. So we have these 114 alleged sayings of Jesus.
WIZARD: Could you share a few of those?
TRIP: We have about three minutes, so go ahead.
ROBERT WOLFE: Well, I don't happen to have the copy of the
book handy, but if we only have three minutes, let me summarize
pretty quickly. So I've looked at quite a number of books written
by scholars who have tried to interpret the Gospel of Thomas in
terms of these esoteric teachings, which aren't in the New
Testament. And the scholars tend to be professors of religion at
universities, so they come from generally a Christian background.
So they're really looking at it through a Christian filter. I found no
one who was looking at it from the standpoint of nonduality. So
what I've done is gone through the Gospel of Thomas and the 114
sayings, and looked at them from the standpoint of nonduality.
So the title of the book is, The Gospel of Thomas - the
Enlightenment Teachings of Jesus. So in my opinion what's found
in the Gospel of Thomas is enlightenment teachings, the same
thing that Buddha and others taught. You wanted a quote from it,
someone put a copy of the book in my hand, and on the cover it
says, "I shall give you", this is a quote from the Gospel of Thomas,
"I shall give you what no eye has seen, and what no ear has heard,
and what no hand has touched, and what has never occurred to a
human mind". What do you think he's talking about there? Is be
maybe talking about the absolute?
TRIP: For sure.
ROBERT WOLFE: So that's what I've done there with the Gospel
of Thomas, go ahead.
TRIP: We're major fans of the janitor formerly known as Robert
Wolfe. And you've got a website, www.livingnonduality.org , and
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