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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
the exact same feeling because it's just you feeling that. You can
look around, you can see everyone, you can see yourself enjoying
something like the theatre of sports, and absolutely everyone is
already that thing, there doesn't have to be this like, I know I'm
one, and you’re one. And that's a really nice feeling, but that's
absolutely irrelevant, because you can go into any football stadium
on earth, any soccer stadium on earth, any concert on earth.
I went to a German concert when I was in Germany, I didn't
understand the language at all, I just listened to the whole thing,
and there was no difference than sitting here. So the idea
sometimes of the image of what it looks like that is in some ways
like, it's not a trap, but it just narrows down the experience. Yes,
I'm having it, now I'm not, it's like it's always happening, you can
go to the grocery store and just like look at the checker in a very
normal way, and there it is, and there it is, and there it is. So it’s
helpful because you can actually play with it, you can go to any
event where seemingly people are not having that conversation,
and you can see it. Because it's just life, I mean it's just, god, like
you're on the airplane and the guy next to you is snoring, and the
girl over there with her iPad, and the stewardess is like, I can't wait
'til I get out of here. And it's all perfectly life just happening. I
love the idea that you can go to a stadium full of sport fans and feel
the exact same feeling, seemingly the furthest thing from a
conversation about nonduality, but it's the same thing because
nonduality is always the case, regardless of what we say.
TRIP: It does seem that this conversation [Laughs]; Benjamin's
contagious maniacal laughter is taking place over here. Are you
okay?
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: Oh, yeah.
TRIP: Well, you're crying.
BENJAMIN SMYTHE: It's just so beautiful, it takes over, and it is
like so beautiful.
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