Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: I just think that we're in this fabulous time where guys like
you have taken this nondual teaching to the starship level. And for
example, I revere Ramana Maharshi, and it was a book, a wisdom
of his that woke me up and the Wizard reveres Ramana as well,
he's had a central place in his spiritual edification. But for
example, Ramana talks about the I-thought, for example, he
doesn't really break it down that much. But you have, for example,
a term you call the self-center, you say it's more than just the Ithought,
it is more than just thought in emotion, in fact it is an
entire physical and emotional contraction supporting a time
bound thought based story. Now that's taking Ramana's stuff and
putting it on steroids.
WIZARD: The I-thought arises with all we perceive, all
simultaneously.
TRIP: I don't know where you get all your stuff, but you've really
got a delicious way of looking at it. So I've got a follow up question
on that. You talk about the triangle of the self-center, and you can
talk a little bit about the self-center, which is your version of the
ego, and you say the conceptual stuff makes it appear that we're in
storyline, like a movie. But I have a question for you and this is
probably, I don't know, it's not a great question, but one thing that
I find difficult to overcome in seeing the storyline for what it is,
simply a movie, although I am able to do that fairly well at times.
But there's a consistency to the story that goes beyond facts, and
has to do with your karma, your good luck, you know what I'm
saying? And it tends to colorized everything, even these disparate
events, and what not, tend to take on a feeling, there's a
cohesiveness to your life story that is more than just events and
stuff, what I'm talking about, Scott?
SCOTT KILOBY: Yes, it gives it personal meaning like you're
moving from one point in the sense that things are connected to
other things, and that's why it's so convincing.
TRIP: But even like I mean, don't you feel yourself to be
incredibly blessed?
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