Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
Introduction
You, the so-called
“person” reading this
page on your iPad,
computer, notebook
or Kindle - you are
reading from one of
two possible
outlooks. If you are
like I was until the
age of 48, you
believe you are an
individual person
with a brain that is
the seat of your
awareness. You
believe yourself to
be a doer of things,
the I-thought with
free will, and that you have some control over the outcome of your
game of life. You believe you exclusively exist in a particular
location at a particular time and that there is a world “out there”
full of objects that exist independently from you and from each
other. This is a dual outlook.
There is also the outlook of non-duality. Anyone can taste it
anytime by asking the question in the very Now, “Who or what am
I?” The Truthful answer always is, for everyone, the same still
silence that avails itself as this I-thought vanishes or becomes
transparent. So the Truth is... we are literally nothing. Inside of
that no-thing everything mysteriously appears like a movie on a
screen.
That contradiction of simultaneous something AND nothing
cannot be grocked by the mind. It can only be intuited by grace.
The mind can point to it with lots of juicy words but it can never
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