087. Krishna Gauci

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2011

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Krishna can be a catalyst for the awakening transformation of your life. He also appears to be a pretty ordinary guy. For most of his life, he has been driven by a desire to know the power that moves the universe. In this mad quest for authentic spiritual realization, he has been blessed to come across the right people at the right time. Besides working as a spiritual coach and teacher and being trained in hypnotherapy, he has also been a cabinetmaker, an auto assembly line worker, a New York City taxi cab driver, and a bus driver. He has lived real life as a down to earth human being and knows that the truth of spirituality is always tested there. His experience is that you will never have exactly what you want and that you are already what you're looking for. His sense is that you don't need to be taught as much as you need to be understood and heard. He is well versed in several spiritual maps but he knows that who you are is beyond any map. You are changeless and you are always changing, and he relates to you as both. Since you are what you're looking for, he is only always pointing you to a deep trust in your own deepest life: Being itself. He does this in one on one sessions and in groups through talks, guided meditation, questions, and answers, gazing transmission and silent sitting. His presence enlivens that which is guiding you from within and calls you into your own life. He welcomes you into an awakening that is totally yours, and totally beyond you. Krishna invites everyone to roll up their sleeves and celebrate the paradox of being both Infinite and finite simultaneously. His sleeves are rolled up too. Krishna's website trilliumawakening.org Interview recorded 9/17/2011 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Krishna Gauci and Waking Down 00:04:10 - Discovering the Dimension of Ourselves 00:09:09 - Duality in Non-duality 00:12:37 - The Sense of Personhood 00:16:08 - The Core Wound and the Intuition of Being More 00:19:23 - The Paradox of Freedom and Bondage 00:22:09 - The Core Wound and Consciousness 00:26:01 - The experience of fundamental well-being 00:28:57 - The Wound of Consciousness and the Goddess Kuan Yin 00:32:14 - Expressing the Infinite Intelligence 00:35:37 - The Limitations of Perception 00:38:50 - Falling in love with the unique manifestation 00:41:41 - Many Paths to Spiritual Beliefs 00:44:24 - The Feeling of Offness and Core Wounds 00:47:21 - Expanding Sense of Self 00:50:41 - Levels of Understanding and Communication 00:53:03 - The Role of Devotion in Spiritual Teachings 00:56:05 - Devotion to the Mountain 00:59:25 - The Movement of Divine Love 01:04:00 - The Paradox of Resting in Conscious Nature and Seeking 01:09:27 - The Personalness of the Unmanifest 01:14:07 - Personal Love and Universal Love 01:16:54 - The Unofficial Lineage of Ramana Maharshi and Papaji 01:18:37 - Teaching approach of Ramana and Papaji 01:21:03 - Cultivating Equanimity in Life 01:23:45 - Teaching Consciousness to the Peasants 01:26:02 - Development of Consciousness and Moral Values 01:28:16 - The Importance of Accountability 01:31:04 - The Equality of Teacher and Student 01:33:57 - Trusting Your Own Being 01:36:53 - Join the Discussion Group

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha the Gaspump.
0:29.0	My name is Rick Archer and my guest this week is Krishna Gauchi.
0:33.3	And Krishna told me that he got that name from Papaji,
0:38.7	who conferred Indian names on a lot of his students, Gangesi, Nelam, you know, who else?
0:46.9	Arjuna, Ardog, and of course, Andrew.
0:51.3	Not everybody.
0:52.7	But I was thinking, you know, it's pretty cool that he gave you that name because he was,
0:56.5	as I understand it, a Krishna devotee.
0:58.5	So it's sort of an honor that he gave you the name Krishna.
1:01.0	Yeah.
1:02.0	You know?
1:03.0	Sweet.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	Krishna is a spiritual teacher of sorts and he'll tell us more about himself as we go along. He lives out in
1:13.2	Oregon and these days he is involved with Waking Down and Mutuality, which was started by
1:23.3	Samuel Bonder and you're probably about the tenth person from Waking Town that I've interviewed.
1:30.0	And I can think of at least one listener that's smacking herself in the forehead and saying,
1:34.5	oh God, not another waking down.
1:37.2	But what I find is that in talking to people who are involved waking down, they're not all cut from the same mold.
1:43.9	Everyone seems to have their own fresh way of expressing things and their fresh, their own angle on things,
1:50.0	and that is actually explicitly encouraged and not at all restricted in that organization, if it's an organization.
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