Excerpt from Newport Beach 1980 Workshop<\/p>\n
A participant asks:<\/p>\n
(What\u2019s the traveler and tripper story you tell regarding enlightenment which can also be applied to other areas of living?)<\/p>\n
Travelers and trippers – – ok – – we\u2019ll try to work on that one a little bit.\u00a0A person who is free or is an integrated individual is called a traveler in some language.\u00a0So is that all right?\u00a0It doesn’t mean we’d always have to use that term; but it is used in some lingo.\u00a0So a traveler is not going anywhere in particular, he’s traveling; and this is generally given as a symbol of the traveler; and it doesn’t matter whether he’s here or here or here or here or here or what’s going on there because he is \u201con the path\u201d or \u201cway\u201d and he is living it, he’s not trying to get to an \u201cend\u201d somewheres.\u00a0In other words he doesn’t have a goal – – you can check out anything we talk about here.<\/p>\n
Now we\u2019ve mentioned at times about the fourth wise man, huh? Now he was a traveler.\u00a0So his compadres started at point A and went to point B, and then their chore was done.\u00a0Now that’s a person on a trip, ok?\u00a0Now the trip has a definite goal or something to accomplish; and so they were to see a certain person when they got there, and they did that.<\/p>\n
There is no point A and B – – no start and no finish with the traveler – – so the fourth wise man had an aim to get from point A to point B, but he never got there.\u00a0So as he went along, he found a poor old guy lying in the desert burning up with fever with nobody to look after him; so the traveler stopped, took care of him and that was it.\u00a0He was just a traveler anyway.\u00a0He continued on and found some little girl being sold into slavery, so he took some object that he had that would purchase her, bought her and set her free – – it doesn’t make any difference.\u00a0Now he didn’t see any obstructions to his purpose.<\/p>\n
Now if anything happened along here, the trippers would be very impatient or very upset about it – – would possibly say it was so necessary to get to point B over here and complete what they set out to do, that they would have ignored the sick old guy lying beside the road or the girl being sold into slavery or an animal being mistreated.\u00a0The traveler even bought a donkey along the way because the man was beating the donkey and not feeding it.\u00a0So the person on the trip or\u00a0the \u201ctripper\u201d as we call him,\u00a0couldn’t stop and be bothered with all that.\u00a0He has to be on his way.<\/p>\n
The traveler works with whatever’s here in the moment.\u00a0So if he sees something that requires that he be here for three weeks – – so what, he is not intervened. He is a traveler at that particular place and he’s doing what seems \u201cto be there to do\u201d, ok?\u00a0And so he is not coming from any one spot nor going to any other spot.\u00a0There’s no point A and B.\u00a0And I think this is a sign of infinity.\u00a0He is a \u201ccompleted man\u201d and is a person no longer looking for a given destination or a goal.\u00a0He is not trying to \u201cgain something\u201d or \u201cget something\u201d.\u00a0He is \u201cdoing\u201d something.\u00a0So he’s traveling and whatever presents itself at any given spot, that’s what he does; and he knows no interference or second force, ok?\u00a0That help answer it ok – – so far, so good?\u00a0All right.<\/p>\n
The world is full of trippers and very few travelers, ok?\u00a0Lots of folks are on a little trip.\u00a0They’re on a trip to be integrated or to be whole or complete.\u00a0The traveler says, “Well, I’m doing alright, right here – – I can take care of what\u2019s going on right here, right now – – that\u2019s the person who truly is \u201con the path\u201d as it\u2019s commonly called.\u00a0And he\u2019s not headed anywhere.<\/p>\n
Most people say they\u2019re on the path – – they\u2019re headed for a given accomplishment or some goal or some prize or some illusion that they\u2019ve dreamed up; and those we call trippers.\u00a0They are not travelers of \u201cthe way\u201d.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been around for a long time – – I have it written where it was transcribed out of a talk we gave 10 years ago or so – – so it\u2019s been around a long time.\u00a0Now are you a traveler?\u00a0If you take care of whatever shows up here, then there\u2019s no such thing as an interference, no such thing as second force – – nobody\u2019s interfering with you – – that\u2019s just what showed here.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve all read the story about the Good Samaritan – – he was a traveler.\u00a0The other guys mentioned in the story were all trippers.\u00a0They were headed somewhere with many misconceptions and conclusions about the man in the ditch; and they couldn\u2019t be bothered with a guy beat up and lying there in the ditch – – who\u2019s got time to stop.<\/p>\n
There is a Sufi story told of two guys were traveling and they came by an ant hill; and the traveler said he heard some of the ants down there that seemed to be struggling with a big rock – – maybe they ought to dig down and open it up.\u00a0The tripper was in a hurry to get on with his trip, so he kept insisting – – \u201cWe can\u2019t stop here and fiddle with a durn ant hill. We got to go on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later they came to a tree and the traveler heard bees singing in it, and the traveler saw the bees had something going on wrong; and suggested if they opened it up, they could get a lot of honey and also be of assistance to the bees, but the tripper said, \u201cWhy bother with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally at a teahouse one night – – another bunch of people caught up with them and they, too, had noticed the ants struggling there; so they dug down and found great gobs of gold that the ants couldn\u2019t get around.\u00a0And so the tripper was all upset because the traveler hadn\u2019t had him stop, you know – – hadn\u2019t insisted on it.<\/p>\n
Same thing with the bees.\u00a0So there was endless number of things that the tripper was in such a hurry that he ignored – – he refused to be in the present.\u00a0The traveler kept saying, \u201cLet\u2019s do this – – it\u2019s here at hand – – we don\u2019t know what\u2019s over there.\u201d\u00a0But the tripper never would stop – – so, yes, it\u2019s a very common little story of the \u201ctravelers\u201d and the \u201ctrippers\u2019.<\/p>\n
I just get it down where you don\u2019t have to interpret it.\u00a0I just figure – – you know – – that most people are not into seeing what the subtle point is.\u00a0So the story is describing a traveler and a tripper setting off together.\u00a0There are many versions of this little story.<\/p>\n
But it is a most interesting idea to keep in mind as to \u201cwhat am I doing?\u201d\u00a0Am I a traveler or am I just running on little spasmodic trips out here.\u00a0The traveler has a great joy, and is a completed being and experiences no frustrations, has no obstructions to his way.<\/p>\n
The tripper has nothing but obstructions and struggle to get to where he\u2019s going; and he has nothing when he gets there.<\/p>\n
Want to be a traveler?<\/p>\n
So the traveler takes care of whatever presents itself at the moment – – I wasn\u2019t going anywhere anyway, I was just traveling.\u00a0And the traveler is on the road of infinity – – the other is on a very limited road – – the end\u2019s right here, ok?<\/p>\n
in\u00b7fin\u00b7i\u00b7ty – synonyms: endlessness, boundlessness, limitlessness;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Excerpt from Newport Beach 1980 Workshop A participant asks: (What\u2019s the traveler and tripper story you tell regarding enlightenment which can also be applied to other areas of living?) Travelers and trippers – – ok – – we\u2019ll try to … Continue reading