064. Chris Hebard

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2011

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Chris Hebard is the founder and creator of StillnessSpeaks.com, a premier resource on the internet aggregating the text, audio, and film of authentic contemporary and traditional teachers of Non-Duality and Self Inquiry from within all spiritual disciplines. The website reflects his enthusiasm and love for its material. The approach of StillnessSpeaks is integral; it does not promote any particular path or methodology. Chris attempts to honor the many paths available to all Truth Lovers; in doing so, he hopes to demonstrate that there is only one destination. Chris writes, speaks and films on Self Inquiry, Advaita, and non-duality extensively throughout the United States and Europe. He can be reached at [email protected]. As you will hear in this interview, Chris’s own journey involved becoming a hard-driving, successful businessman, who dismissed spirituality as impractical nonsense, only to suffer a series of devastating losses which brought him literally to his knees, dismantled his ego, and ignited a burning desire for Self-Realization. Interview recorded 4/3/2011. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Chris Hebard 00:04:16 - Childhood Memories and Prep School Life 00:06:35 - The Beginning of My Rebellious Years 00:09:09 - Entrepreneurship and Spiritual Disconnect 00:11:36 - The Shift in Perception from LSD Experiences 00:14:13 - The Shift into Business and Ego-Inflation 00:17:08 - Embracing Change and Transformation 00:20:04 - Overcoming Adversity and Finding Inner Peace 00:24:21 - Feeling Lost and Searching for Identity 00:27:51 - The Power of Now and a Turning Point 00:30:15 - The Shift in Understanding 00:32:37 - The Beautiful Journey of Personal Growth 00:34:55 - Discovering Advaita Resources 00:37:55 - The Journey of Awakening 00:40:18 - Stumbling upon Francis Lucille 00:42:35 - Meeting Francis and Profound Experiences 00:44:59 - "Darshan" and the Power of Proximity 00:47:18 - The Shift in Perception and Direction of Life 00:50:12 - Enthusiasm and Criticism 00:53:15 - Magnificent People on the Unfolding Journey 00:56:19 - The Contagion of Awakeness 00:59:18 - The Substance of Awareness 01:02:06 - A Lukewarm Heart 01:05:02 - The Importance of Having Teachers 01:07:35 - The Nature of Reality and Self-Realization 01:09:47 - Fine-tuning the Physiology and Letting Go 01:11:46 - The Question of Free Will 01:13:28 - Following Your Heart's Desires 01:15:49 - The usefulness of teaching different perspectives 01:18:17 - Connecting and Collaborating 01:20:10 - Sign up for email notifications

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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 Chris Heberd.
0:32.6	And Chris does something kind of similar to what I'm'm doing but in my opinion with a great deal
0:38.4	more professionalism he is the founder of stillness speaks.com in which he or on which he offers
0:47.4	interviews with spiritually awakened people and teachers such as Francis LaSille and many others
0:53.7	and he has you know but he does it with a very high level of audio awakened people and teachers, such as Francis Lucille and many others.
1:00.4	And he has, but he does it with a very high level of audio, audio, video quality, professional equipment, and puts out very nicely produced DVDs.
1:06.0	I'm trying to do this thing on Skype, and it's a little bit of a challenge always,
1:09.9	but we're kind of like
1:11.5	barking up the same tree. And so I got in touch with Chris and it turns out he has a very
1:17.1	interesting story about his own spiritual awakening to whatever extent he acknowledges that it has
1:23.4	happened. And I thought he'd be a fascinating guy to talk to and so here we are welcome
1:28.3	Chris.
1:29.3	Hey, nice to meet you if only by Fawn.
1:32.3	Yeah, or by Skype.
1:34.3	So Chris and I have been chatting a bit before starting this recording and he was saying so
1:39.3	many interesting things.
1:40.3	I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, let's start this because we're, you know, we're just wasting this.
1:44.9	We can share this with others.
1:47.2	So we can either get right back into what we were talking about, or we can sort of start from the beginning and have you tell your whole story and then kind of weave into some of these topics as we go.
1:56.9	Maybe we should do that, because you have a fascinating background.
2:00.5	I think let's just, let's just plunge into that.
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