030. Chuck Hillig

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2010

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Chuck Hillig is a modern spiritual teacher, author and licensed psychotherapist whose clarity of expression has earned him the admiration and praise of many notable writers and lecturers in this area. Chuck writes personally and directly about the essence of non-dual spirituality and presents its astonishing truths to the average reader in ways that are totally unique, completely accessible and absolutely life-changing. Using his studies in both eastern philosophy and western psychology, Chuck’s five unique books present a world view that shows his readers how to fully live a truly enlightened and authentic life in the 21st Century by waking up to who they really are. His books and interviews about non-dualism have been published in nine languages. Chuck appears in the new Leap 3.0 movie as well as in many recent videos on youtube. Chuck Hillig makes his home in Locust Grove, Virginia, and has one heck of a good time living life. You can contact him at: [email protected]. Website Chuck Hillig in Panel at Sofia U. Part 1 | Part 2 Chuck's books: Looking for God: Seeing the Whole in One The Way IT Is, 2nd Edition: Realizing the Truth About Everything Seeds for the Soul: Living as the Source of Who You Are Enlightenment for Beginners, Second Edition: Discovering the Dance of the Divine The Way It Is What Are You Doing in My Universe? The Magic King Interview recorded 7/21/10. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Background 00:03:10 - A Double Life in Catholicism 00:06:10 - Discovering Eastern Philosophy 00:08:58 - A Shift in Consciousness 00:12:09 - The Perfection of Everything 00:15:17 - Simplifying Enlightenment 00:18:16 - From Psychotherapy to Spiritual Awakening 00:21:42 - Integration and Conversation about Awakening Experiences 00:24:00 - Becoming a Parent and a Psychotherapist. 00:26:25 - Exploring Different Paths of Spiritual Awakening 00:28:31 - Embracing the Shifting Spectrum 00:30:55 - Subtle Seeds of Awakening 00:33:27 - The Path to Enlightenment and Supplementary Practices 00:36:01 - The Illusion of Spiritual Practices 00:38:09 - Addressing the Ultimate Primordial Question 00:40:03 - The Ungraspable Nature of Spiritual Awakening 00:42:29 - Transforming Lives through Conversation 00:44:48 - Connecting with Different Paths 00:47:20 - Krishnamurti's Intellectual Style 00:49:53 - Living Life with Humility and Joy 00:52:38 - Life is a Dream, Enjoy the Play 00:54:53 - The Illusion of Separation 01:00:00 - Embracing and Transcending Emotions 01:00:41 - Honoring the Great Drama of Life 01:03:13 - Neo-Advaita and Spiritual One-upmanship 01:05:53 - The Three Types of Aspirants 01:08:16 - Discussions about "Leap 3.0" and Chuck Hillig's DVD 01:10:06 - Daily State of the Industry Update and Personal Hobbies 01:12:03 - Unplanned Wisdom 01:13:43 - Concluding the Interview 01:15:16 - Final Farewells Save

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. My name is Rick Archer and my guest this week is Chuck Hillig.
0:32.6	Chuck, since you and I made a date to have this interview, your name has popped up a few times
0:37.5	here and there.
0:38.5	In fact, just yesterday you came up on the, what was it, this website that Frances
0:44.3	LaSille is often on, stillness speaks.
0:48.4	They had some videos of you.
0:50.2	So it seems you're getting to be relatively well known, so I may very well be speaking to a very famous nobody here.
0:57.4	I certainly hope so.
0:59.7	So the way we've been doing these shows, as you may have noticed if you looked at one or two, is, you know, people find it interesting to, you know, hear a person's story, how they kind of arrived at where they're at.
1:10.3	That sets up a little bit of a paradox for some people because some people don't feel like there's really a person's story, how they kind of arrived at where they're at. That sets up a little bit of a paradox for some people because some people don't feel
1:13.3	like there's really a person whose story is all that important.
1:17.0	And yet it's interesting to kind of see how one might have arrived at that realization
1:21.9	or perspective.
1:24.1	Some people like to take it chronologically, like, oh, I was a teenager and I took LSD and I realized there was more to life and then I moved along and, you know, and others kind of like to jump right into, you know, some watershed moment they had when they kind of had a profound realization that turned their life around. How would you like to do it?
1:41.3	Well, I appreciate the fact that you kind of warned everybody saying, I know that it's not the story,
1:47.9	and we have to jump in someplace and pretend like there is a story,
1:51.4	and that there was some kind of event that occurred in some kind of calendar date someplace and a linearity thing.
1:58.7	I understand that that's not not what happened and i want everybody
2:02.3	who's watching this to understand that i don't believe any of that anyway right all of that being
2:06.7	said here's my story okay good well i was born and raised in the catholic tradition i was um i went
2:15.6	to catholic grade school with the sisters of st joseph um went to Catholic grade school with the sisters of St. Joseph,
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