084. Pamela Wilson

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2011

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Pamela speaks the Truth of Advaita, non-duality - that the universe is one undivided whole. For the last ten years, she has traveled widely in the United States, Canada, and Europe, holding satsang and giving private sessions. Week-long retreats have been held in Mexico, Costa Rica, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the USA. She has endeared herself to many through her lighthearted humor and compassion, and deep understanding of what it is to be human. She lives in the Bay Area of Northern California. Pamela's website Summary and Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 8/28/2011 2nd Interview with Pamela YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Pamela Wilson's Spiritual Teachings 00:03:33 - The Supreme Intelligence 00:06:26 - The Play of Natural Intelligence 00:09:31 - Clear Seeing and the Balance of Consciousness 00:13:01 - Coming Back to Deep-Rooted Still Naturalness 00:15:52 - The Devotion of Saints and Sages 00:18:54 - The Infinite and Existence 00:21:44 - Greek Mythology and Seeking Deeper Meaning 00:24:15 - Spontaneous visitations from Ramana Maharshi 00:26:47 - A Pillow Fiasco 00:29:21 - The Beauty and Seduction of the Vastness 00:32:05 - Appreciating Brahman through our perceptual mechanism 00:34:50 - Using the Sedona Method for Meditation 00:37:33 - The Shakespearian Costume 00:40:19 - The Fear of Annihilation 00:42:56 - Urgency and Immersion in Spiritual Teaching 00:45:45 - The Mystery of Awakening 00:48:30 - The Transformative Effect of Awakening 00:51:31 - Fear in the Unmoving Pond 00:54:30 - Relaxing the tension in humanness 00:57:18 - The Tree of Life's Relaxation Process 01:00:08 - The Nature of Suffering and Awakening 01:02:43 - The Power Surge of Relaxation During Sleep 01:05:15 - The Luminous Nature of Reality 01:07:41 - Hanging out with a sage 01:11:10 - The Integration of Strength and Sensitivity 01:14:17 - The Healing Influence of Attention 01:17:14 - Resting in Substratum 01:19:48 - The Function of Timelessness 01:22:32 - The Essence of Life Waking Up 01:27:43 - Transition to Adyashanti Save

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:29.1	My name is Rick Archer, and my guest this week is Pamela Wilson.
0:34.6	Pamela is a spiritual teacher living on the West Coast.
0:38.3	And I'll let her introduce herself in the course of the interview.
0:43.3	But Pamela, I just want to say that I've really enjoyed for the last week or so listening to a lot of recordings of you.
0:50.3	I listened to pretty much all the Never Not Hear recordings and your Science and
0:57.0	Non-Duality Conference talk and your conscious TV interview with Renata McNay.
1:04.0	So, and if I, if I could distill, you see if I get this right, tell me if I get this right, but if I could distill what you like to say down
1:13.6	into a couple of sentences, it might be that you like to kind of point to the innate intelligence
1:20.6	of life, which is our essence, and the beneficent quality of that.
1:28.3	And you have a kind of a way of helping people attune themselves to a recognition of that.
1:34.3	Would that be a fair assessment or am I leaving out something really critical?
1:39.3	Absolutely. No, I think it's pretty simple.
1:45.0	Yeah.
1:46.0	I mean you constantly, and I like that because a lot of people don't, a lot of teachers,
1:52.0	don't sort of refer to the sort of intelligent quality of reality or whatever you want
1:59.0	to call it. They kind of emphasize an impersonal flavor to it.
2:04.6	And the feeling it kept getting from you was an appreciation of the sort of vast wisdom that
2:14.6	guides life or that governs life and the value know, the value of kind of being in the flow
2:20.9	of that.
2:21.7	Yeah, well, what I like is relaxation and when I noticed that everything was intelligent
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