Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
BRIAN ADLER: Right, I agree. The thing that I think we miss is
that our desire to change it, our resistance to the way it is now, is
holding it in place.
WIZARD: Absolutely.
BRIAN ADLER: It is.
WIZARD: Absolutely.
BRIAN ADLER: Our unhappiness is our resistance to
unhappiness.
TRIP: You talk about surrender, and I want to go down a little
deeper into this, you say, "This surrender must take place at our
depths, it must happen bodily, our allegiance to struggle nonsurrender,
the effort to increase, to decrease, to maintain, and to
get rid of, pervades the body-mind, it can be observed in our
speech, movement and physiology. The intelligence of being who
and where we are must awaken bodily; it may be revealed in a
simple and extraordinary way, catharsis if it occurs is definitely
not the point. But if we are to awaken for real we must change our
relationship to our bodily felt experience literally", how does that
take place?
BRIAN ADLER: Well like I was saying before, it's really just the
shift. A lot of us imagine happiness as a feeling, happiness by
whatever name, a lot of us imagine without really thinking about it
that enlightenment is a feeling, it's a good feeling. So when we
hold the concept that the thing we want is a specific thing, any
time we're not experiencing that thing suddenly, or maybe not
suddenly, we're going to be rejecting it, and that rejection feels like
something. So the irony and the paradox is that the rejection is
both the obstacle but it's also the gateway, because if you're
resisting, and you reject the resistance, you're just going to be
doing more resisting. That's way people are like, oh, I shouldn't do
this thing that makes me unhappy, that never works, but what you
can do is just feel it, just experience it.
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