Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
that injunction that we need to change things. And the part that
we miss is believing there's a problem actually alters the way we
experience the current situation, the current circumstances. So
when people talk about the futility of seeking, that's essentially
what they're pointing to is that as long as you believe that you have
to achieve something in the future to be happy now, you're going
to always be doing that, and the part that you miss is that if you
weren't doing that, what's happening right now is actually fine.
TRIP: Okay, that's a good theory [Laughs].
WIZARD: It's beyond a theory, it’s right on. The seeking for
what's already absolutely with you, as you, of you, is silly, and that
is a construction of a duality, instantaneously, which robs one of
native vision immediately. It's a cornerstone in the sojourn of
discovering what we really are, is that this hope thing…
BRIAN ADLER: It's like we look around, we experience ordinary
moments where maybe we're hungry, maybe we wish we had more
money, maybe we wish our girlfriend were nicer to us or
something. And so we imagine that freedom, or happiness, or
peace, or whatever, our conceived heaven, is when all of those
things aren't the case. Like an orgasm that lasts forever, or an
insight that lasts forever, or a relief from emotional tightness that
lasts forever. But where does that ever happen, to who does that
ever happen? The thing that we don't see is that what's right here
always, just being aware, just being alive, just being conscious, is
actually the thing we're looking for when we're not looking for it.
COLLEEN BLACK: You think that hope is an obstacle to
happiness?
BRIAN ADLER: Absolutely.
WIZARD: Yes [Laughs], sorry.
TRIP: I was being a little facetious, I talked about it as a theory,
but of course this is theory, it's all conceptual, but…
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