058. Mandi Solk

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2011

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Due to technical problems, this video only contains still shots of Mandi, while Rick's video is normal. Mandi Solk lives in the picturesque town of Hebden Bridge in England, UK. She founded Nonduality-North six years ago in order to attract Nonduality Teachers to the North of England. Mandi is herself a Nonduality Teacher and has now handed Nonduality-North on so that she can concentrate on her own meetings and YouTube videos. She has written two books: 'The Joy of No Self', endorsed by Scott Kiloby and Jeff Foster Is-Ness Is Your Only Biz-Ness: Highly Potent Power-Poems with the Power to Transform, Inspire, Heal, and Awaken to Liberation Website Interview recorded 2/27/2011 2nd BatGap interview with Mandi Summary and Transcript of this interview. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Mandi Solk 00:02:49 - A Seeker's Journey 00:06:17 - Letting go in the face of death 00:09:20 - The Awakening and Change of Perspective 00:12:00 - Encased in a Wall of Terror 00:15:01 - Profound Silence and Non-Events 00:17:45 - The Loving Way of Finding Your True Self 00:20:56 - Finding Stillness in Meditation 00:23:47 - Meditation Rigidities 00:26:13 - The Practice of Meditation 00:28:51 - The Absence of the Doer 00:31:54 - Embracing the Present Moment 00:35:16 - Observing Fear and Anxiety 00:38:41 - The Naturalness of Detachment 00:41:24 - Embracing all Emotions in Nonduality 00:44:12 - Living Life Fully 00:46:43 - Unraveling the tendency to take thoughts too seriously 00:49:16 - Scott's Shadow Work and Personal Growth 00:51:49 - The Nature of Aliveness 00:54:20 - Dwelling in the State of Presence 00:57:17 - The Generosity of the Way to God 01:00:02 - Gradual Realizations and Seeing Beyond Separation 01:02:43 - The Two Ways of Awakening 01:05:25 - Spontaneous awakenings and the path to self-discovery 01:07:44 - The Experience of Absolute Love and God's Presence 01:10:35 - Be Still and Know That I Am God 01:13:17 - The Possibility of Awakening 01:15:41 - Nonduality accessible to all 01:18:03 - Private Realization and Ordinary Life 01:20:40 - The Value of Diversity of Perspectives 01:22:57 - Healing by Revealing Soul Website

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:28.8	And my guest this week is Mandy Salk, who lives in Hebden Bridge, which is a little town in the north of England.
0:43.3	In fact, she runs a little group called, what is it, non-duality North. It's big now.
0:44.3	A big group, a big group.
0:45.3	A big group.
0:46.3	Especially for Hebden Bridge, it's a big group.
0:49.3	No, no, it's all of England and people come from all over and from all over the world to it.
0:55.5	Very cool.
0:56.5	You mean they physically travel there from all over the world?
0:59.4	They do, yeah.
1:00.4	Wow.
1:00.7	In fact, very few people from Hebden Bridge come.
1:05.0	It's just in Hebden Bridge, but, you know, it's been going for about five or six years now, and it's,
1:13.6	so it's quite, quite big.
1:16.3	Cool.
1:17.1	You know.
1:17.4	Speakers from all over.
1:18.9	Scott, Scott Killebe.
1:21.0	Oh, he came, he flew over, huh?
1:22.5	Fantastic.
1:23.2	Three times, yeah.
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