Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
And the Wizard talks about like, well Trip, whatever motives you is
your God, so if money motivates you that's your God, or whatever.
I don't have a desire for money, but I have this deep profound
wish, if you will, to hang onto to this humble little thing that I
scratched out of the ground. I don't want to lose that, and I can
see that it's robbing me of peace, because there's probably not that
much of a chance that I'm going to lose it, because I don't have to
perform at some unbelievable economic tier to hang onto it. What
about these little simple modest things that people feel are just
normal little things that they ought to be okay with wanting to
have in their life?
BRIAN ADLER: Well it's not that there's anything wrong with it,
the desire for physical security is probably the most common for
physical safety; it's probably the most common illusion or false
God, like John was saying, that anyone has. And there's nothing
wrong with it, except that it doesn't work. We were just talking
about ageing, who maintains their safety and security? No one
does. If happiness depended on that we'd all be screwed.
COLLEEN BLACK: It causes a lot of problems, because my father
in law died yesterday, or the day before and there's this horrible,
horrible family, it's like a nuclear explosion that has occurred in
the past 48 hours of my life. And a lot of it is greed, and the needs
for future security, and it's a volcano in my family, it's just awful.
And I am very upset because it feels as though everyone is
transparent now, and they're really ugly on the inside.
BRIAN ADLER: I don't think of it as a bad, in the sense of
immoral thing, it's innocent. We think that our well-being, I
would say that we're universally attracted to wel- being, but we
mistake what the source of well-being is, and we imagine that it's
in stable circumstances, for example. And so we compete with one
another for those circumstances, or we try to hold onto them, and
what's invisible to us is when we believe that we need to be secure,
and react to that belief by spending 90% of our time worrying
about what's going to happen, dwelling on the future, or doing
things that we don't enjoy. All the things that we do because we
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