Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: So how does that affect apparent choice? Is there a
choice?
BRIAN ADLER: That's an excellent question. The way I
experience it… see, part of this is that identity plays a big part of
this, because what we are really referring to when we refer to I, is
do I have a choice? What we're really referring is that habit of
resistance. So like we say that the I-thought is just I, by the way it
really shows up, is I need, I want. The resistance is the I. So is
there a choice? I think what happens is in the moment the thing
that we're running from is fully experienced, the sense of I
dissolves. And because the sense of I dissolves the whole question
of is there a choice, or is there not a choice.
WIZARD: The choice goes with it.
BRIAN ADLER: Right.
TRIP: Damn he's good.
WIZARD: That is good [Laughs].
COLLEEN BLACK: You mean there's no lack, from that
perspective?
BRIAN ADLER: What I mean is that when we refer to ourselves,
we're referring to the lack that we think is out there in
circumstances, or in here in some missing feeling, it's not
happening to us, it's something that we're doing, and then
identifying with. It's our own doing.
PAUL NAGY: But you know it's actually really simple, when
you're talking about the I, most people are talking about their ego,
their conscious mind, as a construct, and that's where the
resistance is. You settle in, and you stop and you just watch the
constructs, and you're not putting anything into them, and then
you notice that there's something that's floating there.
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