Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
TRIP: Well you may have gotten dumber, but interspersed in your
teaching, and I've read a lot of stuff in the last five years, and this
is what I think about all the time, you have your own little juicy
way of adding in these little pieces that, maybe they're not unique
to you, but they're the first time that I've encountered it. And I'll
give you a little example for our listeners, like for example you say
we experience a car as if it exists all by itself, now that's not exactly
earth shattering. But you say on its own side, independent of
thought and the rest of the universe. That sense of things being
over there on their own side. A little phrase like that can unlock
the mind.
WIZARD: It's fresh, ever fresh.
TRIP: Yes.
WIZARD: Of the living spirit.
SCOTT KILOBY: Go ahead; did you have some questions on that?
TRIP: Well I just think that each teacher, or you may not call
yourself a teacher, but each person that has something to share
brings these unique little tit-bits that have a way of unlocking little
obstructions in the mind of the reader whoever they are and you
never know which one's going to do it, so it's great to expose
yourself to lots of different stuff.
SCOTT KILOBY: Absolutely. And one of my friends, past
teachers, but really a friend is Greg Goode, and he introduced me
to Mahayana Buddhism, and they speak that way often about
inherent existence, things existing on their own side, which I really
think that's what happening, but until we see that the force of
thought is behind those objects coming from our side, just as
much as anything, and then you start to look at the world that way,
that really started to open things up for me. Because in just a
phenomenal relative experience of having friends and having a
father, or whatever, I noticed that when I look for the objective
father or the objective friend that existed on its own side, I
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