Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
In the waning hours before this program, Brian realized that going
on a radio show to talk about what he knows doesn't make any
sense at all [Laughs].
Brian, rest assured, your life is the perfect teaching, and as
instructive as any other, particularly because you've been in some
dark places in your life, and you've taken a long scorching look at
yourself. I find you breathtakingly honest about yourself, and as
clear as any avant-garde sage we've had on our program. There
are millions of others out there like yourself who may one day
benefit from the knowledge of how your personal crisis have been
so beautifully resolved, and how your way of looking continues to
resolve them. I'm grateful to be your new friend, and have the
opportunity of this conversation.
BRIAN ADLER: Thank you, Trip.
WIZARD: Welcome, Brian. Brian and I, we go back a few
decades.
TRIP: Yes. Should I be launching into my questions here?
[Laughs] All right, I want to read something that you wrote, and
you wrote this… well actually this is something that you wrote
recently, just posted recently, and I've got some other things
you've written. Way back in 1995 Brian was a pretty introspective
lad, you wrote; maybe you read it, Brian:
BRIAN ADLER: "Our relationships to circumstances are the
circumstances themselves, or all that we know of them. It informs
everything we experience of them, this is what no separation
means in functional terms. Therefore it is our hope for the future
that is precisely the same as our resistance of the present. This
hope is our relationship, our rejection to circumstances. It is our
experience of circumstances. Our hope is our suffering, without
hope there is no resistance, without resistance there isn't despair
as we imagine that is overburdened by fear, but rather without
hope, everything we hoped for in a future moment reveals itself as
available in the present circumstances. We imagine that optimal
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