Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
fundamental feeling is that I trust every single person who's
listening to know for themselves how best to achieve that, or
experience that. That's actually the only thing I can offer them,
and that's why I stand here with the You're Perfect sign, it's
literally just like reminding people that absolutely they can trust
their own sense of joy, and their own experience, and what they
want to do, and I don't have a formula for anyone. You can watch
me, but what I do might not work for you, and vice versa.
But it's just the encouragement, like it is okay to play. I might not
play with you, but that's okay to play, too. It's okay to enjoy life, it
is okay to relax. Sometimes I sit up on campus, at Berkeley
campus, and the students are walking by, and it's so fun to just
say, hey, it's okay to relax, and to watch them go, uh! Just their
whole body goes, oh my god, really, is it okay? No, I can't, I got a
paper due, and I can't relax. It's just sometimes reminding each
other, like it is okay, it's OK to relax, and it’s okay to have fun.
You're going to die [Laughs]. I mean, that's probably debatable in
some realms philosophically, but for the most part it's a useful
thing to know, oh, I'm going to die, okay. It's not that serious.
TRIP: Well you're listening to Conversations with Avant-Garde
Sages, and our special guest today is Benjamin Smythe, he's an
avant-garde sage visiting from Berkeley. He's got a very
unorthodox way of sharing, he takes a little sign around and sees
what happens, and stays in the moment, and has no agenda, has
no particular message he wants to share, he's just hanging out in
the present, and playful, right?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Yes. I don't know I might have an agenda
any second now; I have no idea [Laughs].
TRIP: He's ultimately not able to pin down. You can't pin the
man down.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: I don't know the future.
WIZARD: Maybe there's nobody to pin down.
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