Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
things that we have to do, and being able to say that is pretty
fantastic, it cuts it down to something that's manageable. Can you
say what those three things are?
SCOTT KILOBY: Yes and this really just comes from my own
experience. The first one is just to recognize awareness as always
present, and I'll get back to that in a second. The second one is
just to let the appearances be as they are, which is an old
meditative practice. And then the third one is just to see that the
appearances are inseparable. And it flows in a nice direction
there, because the first thing that I tell people is have you ever just
throughout the day as often as possible just rested without having
to exercise your story, or the various viewpoints, or labels that
you've been, so just take a moment. And sometimes I'll start with
people, and I'll say, try it right Now, like just five seconds, or even
three seconds, where you do nothing but just rest without your
story. And by keeping an experience like that, it's hard for them to
then say that they can't recognize awareness as in their experience,
because they just did it. And although it might not at first be this
incredibly enlightening experience with all sorts of bells and
whistles, what it does give them is a sense of rest or a sense of just
very short moment of completion that everything is okay here at
the core level. And then I just invite them to revisit that briefly but
very repeatedly throughout the day, and to get away from the idea
of meditation in the morning. You can still do meditation in the
morning or whatever you're doing, but really taking these
moments throughout the day as often as possible, and that's the
first part of it, recognizing awareness.
And then I do a little bit of coaching with people sometimes just
meeting them one-on-one and saying, of course you can do this,
you can do this in the middle of when your kids are yelling, you
can do this in the middle of being in the grocery store or being in a
hurry. Because all that I'm saying is taking a moment without
emphasizing your viewpoints or thoughts, I'm not saying take a
moment to experience pure bliss in the middle of your anger, I'm
not saying that. I'm saying take a moment and just to relax all
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