006. Steve Winn

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2010

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Rev. Winn’s experience is that the Kingdom of Heaven is a state of higher consciousness. He focuses on understanding and experiencing the Christian mystical tradition in terms of the clearly defined states of consciousness found in the Vedic tradition. He was the senior pastor of Unity Church of Fairfield IA for 12 years and for six years has been the senior pastor of the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit. He has worked extensively on the subtle process of overcoming the Three Temptations of Jesus Christ and has been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for close to 48 years. He is a successful businessman, married with two children. Website: healingtheheartofamerica.org Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded 12/23/2009. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:05:46 - The Experience of Feeling Free 00:09:10 - A Cone of Silence 00:11:46 - Awakening of the Being 00:14:43 - The Importance of Bedtime Sync 00:17:33 - The Paradoxical Elements of Silence and Dynamism 00:20:08 - Common Experiences of Enlightenment 00:22:37 - The Silence and the Mind's Habit of Thinking 00:24:36 - The Levels of Consciousness and the Nathaniel State 00:26:37 - Going to Kansas City to Learn to Love 00:28:40 - A Glorious Celestial Experience, Followed by Disappointment 00:31:07 - The Power of Compassion and the Ego in Religion 00:33:47 - Expanding or Destroying the Ego 00:36:15 - The Function of the Ego in Enlightenment 00:38:40 - Letting go of Negative Feelings 00:41:10 - Spiritual Awakening and Shift 00:43:31 - A Connection with Jesus and the Path to Ministry 00:46:14 - The Book of Mormon and a Soldier's Story 00:48:44 - Tolerance and Love in Religion 00:51:17 - The Danger of Doing Nothing 00:53:49 - The power of creating lasting spiritual institutions 00:56:14 - Letting Go of Thoughts for Brahman Consciousness 00:58:59 - The Experience of Freedom and Awakening 01:01:37 - The Role of Spiritual Practice in Awakening 01:04:19 - The Nature of the Soul and the Terrifying Revelation 01:06:44 - Personal Spiritual Experiences 01:09:23 - The Need for Enlightened People 01:11:55 - The Absolute World 01:13:59 - The Desire to Save the World 01:16:17 - The Freedom of Expression and Missionary Motives 01:19:08 - YouTube Channel Announcement Save Save Save

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:29.6	My name is Rick Archer and my guest tonight is Stephen Wynne.
0:32.6	This is a show, in case you haven't watched any previous ones, in which we discuss spiritual
0:39.0	awakenings, for lack of a better term, not in a metaphysical or theoretical sense, but in
0:46.6	an actual sense with people who have actually had them.
0:49.9	I keep engaging in conversations with friends and with my wife over the terminology because
0:56.7	people find it, first of all, they find it rather uncomfortable to use the term enlightenment
1:01.6	and so do I, because that term implies some sort of much more exalted state than I think
1:09.5	most of my guests would admit to having attained
1:13.3	some sort of final perfect
1:15.8	you know highest state if there is such a thing
1:18.2	some people even object to the term awakenings and they they feel that
1:22.3	maybe the term a shift of some kind
1:25.3	would be more appropriate they feel perhaps that the term awakening implies some sort of elitism that, you know, this person is awake and that person isn't awake and so on.
1:37.3	But if you're going to use the word shift, then what are you shifting to?
1:42.3	You know, you've got to, what, an awakened state. You've got to use some kind of a noun there after that verb.
1:48.0	Awakening works for me.
1:50.0	And the understanding on which we're doing this show
1:53.0	and which has been brought out by each of my guests so far
1:57.0	is that there seem to be many degrees or stages of awakening.
2:02.6	And the criteria that I've been using to invite guests on the show,
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