053. Burt Harding

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2011

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Burt Harding, founder of the Awareness Foundation in Vancouver, offers a radical invitation to recognize the truth of our being as already whole and fulfilled. He reminds us of the love we really are beyond the personal stories we carry. In this way, we come to recognize what we have always known but did not live from – the beauty and wonder of our own true essence. Burt conducts sessions and workshops in Supersentience, a system devised to help heal deep wounds and promote a shift in the perception of who we really are. He has conducted studies in higher consciousness for thirty years and had his own television series on the mind/body connection. Summary and transcript of this interview Interview conducted 1/9/2011. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Burt Harding 00:02:36 - The Life-Changing Book 00:04:40 - Finding my Place and Holding Classes 00:06:53 - Discovering Super Sentience 00:08:58 - Integration of Spiritual Teachings 00:11:09 - The Simplicity of Being Present 00:12:56 - The Experience of Being Present 00:14:44 - The Critical Moment of Self-Realization 00:16:29 - The Excitement of Sharing Knowledge and the Maturation of Experience 00:18:33 - The Maturation Period 00:20:35 - The Disappearance of the Universe 00:22:14 - A Course in Miracles and the Voice that Wouldn't Let Go 00:23:43 - The Presence of the Holy Spirit 00:25:45 - The Feeling Side of Advaita 00:27:54 - Hungering for the Being That We Are 00:30:19 - Embracing the Paradox of Existence 00:32:26 - The Power of Emotions and Unraveling Negative Ones 00:34:22 - Allowing ourselves to grieve 00:36:02 - Letting Go of Worry and Anger 00:37:48 - Learning to Have Compassion 00:39:59 - The True Nature of God and Personal Understanding 00:42:35 - Workshops on Direct Experience of True Nature 00:44:45 - The importance of guidance in working with emotions 00:46:54 - The Power of Direct Experience 00:48:56 - Recognizing the Simplicity Within 00:50:38 - The Power of Awareness 00:52:20 - The wonder of life and the need for inquiry 00:54:39 - Unity with Ultimate Reality 00:56:33 - The Eternal Nature of Seeking and Being 00:58:40 - The Beauty of Being and Becoming 01:00:38 - A Conversation with Bert Harding 01:02:47 - Unspecified topic

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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 Bert Harding.
0:32.6	Bert lives in Vancouver, right? And he was recommended to me by several listeners. This
0:41.4	often happens these days where people recommend that I interview somebody. And there's
0:47.0	no paucity of people to interview who have had a spiritual awakening. My main problem is prioritizing them, so I keep sending them back,
0:56.8	okay, which one should I do first? But you were fairly highly prioritized. So here
1:04.5	we are. So Bert, maybe you could just start by just giving us a quick little sketch about yourself,
1:12.6	and then we can maybe delve into your spiritual odyssey, whatever it has been.
1:18.6	Yeah, my background has been physical.
1:22.6	I was a physiotherapist in Toronto.
1:26.6	I wasn't happy at the time because I, too many demands
1:31.1	were placed upon me. It was an exclusive club and the membership had to be renewed all
1:36.2	the time. So I became a salesman rather than a physiotherapist. Anyway, so one morning,
1:43.2	I'm going to work on a Saturday.
1:47.0	I had a vision, believe it or not, and I saw this incredible radiant face of an elderly gentleman
1:57.0	and it didn't last more than maybe half a minute.
2:01.6	But the wonderful thing was that it stayed with me for a long time.
2:06.6	After a few months, I began to think it was a hallucination.
2:10.6	Then six months down the road I was walking in Yorkville, Toronto,
2:15.6	I entered the bookstore and I saw this picture of this man that
2:22.7	appeared to me on the cover of a book and it was called Romana Maharshi and his teachings.
2:28.3	And when I saw the book, I fell in love. I just fell in love. I read the book, I fell in love.
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