005. Fax & Sharon Gilbert

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2010

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Fax and Sharon Gilbert met on a Transcendental Meditation teachers' course in 1972 in Santa Barbara California and have been teaching together ever since. They’ve administered meditation centers and retreat facilities and inspired and taught thousands of people to meditate throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. They became involved in the Waking Down work in 2002. Several awakenings and dark nights of the soul later they became mentors and then teachers of this work in 2007. They both enjoy the freedom to express this teaching in their own way and marvel at the unique unfolding of each person in this mysterious process of awakening. Fax is also an artist/educator and uses the performance skills of mime, magic, masks and comedy to teach and inspire students of all grade levels. Since 1990 he has presented over 5,000 school assembly programs, residencies, and community concerts, and keynoted many regional educational events. He now splits his time between his Waking Down work and delivering a range of educational and performance programs throughout the Midwest. Fax grew up in Boston and attended Brandeis University. Sharon has been the president of the Waking Down Teachers Assn. for the past six years, is on its governing board and facilitates the monthly teachers meeting. In addition to her teaching and administrative activity she spends her time writing, editing, gardening, reading a wide range of books, and watching cooking shows. Summary and Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 12/16/2009. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha in the Gas Pump 00:03:26 - Sharing Artwork and Programming 00:05:46 - Coming into Alignment with Myself 00:08:38 - Finding Purpose in God-Realization and Enlightenment 00:11:56 - Discovering Inner Peace 00:14:55 - Peace as a Component of Being 00:18:45 - Expressing Human Emotions 00:22:29 - Activating Sense of Presence 00:24:34 - Connection between Consciousness and Facts 00:27:18 - Reconnecting with Consciousness and the Fullness of Being 00:30:27 - The Definition of Enlightenment 00:33:48 - Questioning the Doubt 00:36:23 - Self-realization and spiritual growth 00:38:49 - Embracing Uncomfortable Emotions 00:41:48 - The Power of Awareness and Integration 00:44:58 - The Different Stages of Awakening 00:48:07 - The Fullness of Being and the Poignancy of Life 00:51:15 - Appreciating the Polarity of Limitations and Unlimited Aspect 00:54:35 - The Pain of Different Opinions 00:58:58 - The Nature of Awakening and its Effects 01:02:14 - The Recognition of Living Itself 01:05:14 - The Recognition of Who You Are as Consciousness 01:08:04 - The Power of Company in Awakening 01:11:21 - Confidence in Being and Uniqueness of Expression 01:14:02 - The Paradox of Truth 01:16:53 - Questions from Viewers 01:19:35 - The Buddha's Death 01:23:19 - Being Who You Are 01:26:16 - The Value of Meditation 01:30:09 - Awakening and Self-Improvement 01:33:55 - The Courage to Come Forward

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha in the Gas Pump, a weekly interview show in which we discuss spiritual awakening, for lack of a better term.
0:36.6	This is the fifth in an ongoing series of
0:40.3	interviews, and if this is the first one that you're catching, there will be titles at the end of this show
0:46.3	to tell you how to watch the other ones. They're archived on YouTube, they're going to be
0:50.3	archived on the Fairfield Public Access TV website and there's various other alternatives.
0:56.0	The reason we're able to make this a weekly show is that there are a great number of people these days who are undergoing a spiritual awakening.
1:06.0	The terminology is a little bit ambiguous because different people might mean different things by those terms.
1:13.6	But every week we discuss that term in particular and various other synonyms.
1:19.6	And I think we're week by week arriving at a pretty good understanding of what is generally
1:24.6	meant by a spiritual awakening.
1:30.7	And so far, and I'm sure tonight will be no exception,
1:37.4	our guests have been very clear and articulate and very genuine about what they're experiencing.
1:41.6	This is not a philosophical or metaphysical discussion show in which we speculate about things we might have read in books.
1:46.0	This is a show in which we are discussing things that people are actually experiencing on a day-to-day basis.
1:55.0	So my name is Rick Archer and I'm the host of this show.
1:58.0	My guest tonight are Facts in Sharon Gilbert, who are very dear
2:01.9	and long-time friends of mine. And it's really a delight to have you too on the show.
2:08.7	Thank you for having us.
2:10.5	So what I've generally been doing on these shows is just starting with a couple of minutes
2:14.6	of just kind of biographical information, you know,
2:17.8	I mean, who you are, what you do, what you do for a living, you know, what are your hobbies,
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