091. Ellie Roozdar

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2011

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Ellie is a happily married woman for 29 years. She has been blessed, with two beautiful children—a lovely daughter and a sweet son. Since childhood, she was seeing herself as a vision, which was not associated with the body at all. The question was arising, “Who am I?” This was never answered and it was there in her heart for a long time… Since the year 2001, she has been inspired: To get to know who she is, To find what she is searching for For the past few years, she has had wonderful experiences by “going within,” meditating and discovering the Truth. The Truth reveals itself to itself by itself. She would like to share these experiences with you. She hopes that by reading her story, you also get inspired to “go within” and "discover" who you really are, and also find the authentic joy that resides within. This is simply a discovery, not to become anyone or anything. Remember: Joy is already there, it just needs to be uncovered. We learn to go within and to be a witness of the "nothingness.” It may be frightening at the beginning. All our life we want to be somebody and add something to ourselves and now we will face "nothingness." She wishes you all patience and the best of luck on this path. Please know that this is the best thing and the most important thing that you can do for yourself. Ellie's website 2nd interview with Ellie Interview recorded 10/16/2011 Italian subtitled version of this interview. Transcript of this interview YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction: Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:04:06 - The Invisible Vision 00:08:51 - Searching for Meaning and Purpose 00:13:56 - A Powerful Energy Experience 00:18:27 - Kundalini Awakening and Energy Healing 00:22:24 - Seeking Help for Kundalini Blockage 00:26:49 - The Power of Meditation 00:31:04 - The Powerful Meditation Experience 00:35:39 - A Love Affair with the Divine 00:39:21 - The 7 Stages of Self-Realization in Sufism 00:43:37 - A Love Affair with Uncertainty 00:49:06 - Experiencing Oneness and Duality 00:53:01 - Embracing Oneness and Love 00:57:45 - The Kingdom of God Within You 01:02:04 - Surrendering the Mind 01:06:07 - The Path to Self-Realization 01:10:46 - The Path to Awakening 01:15:26 - The Importance of Personal Experience 01:18:55 - Understanding, Realization, and Liberation 01:23:07 - The Truth and the Mind 01:27:21: Disappointment and the Path of Meditation 01:31:09 - The Truth of Oneness 01:35:36 - The Illusion of Reality 01:40:13 - The Beauty of Variety 01:43:52 - Different Ways of Meditation 01:48:01 - Surrendering the Mind and Knowing Yourself 01:51:29 - Surrender to the Burning Desire 01:55:56 - The Truth in Awareness 02:00:45 - The Illusion of Happening and Unfolding in Here 02:05:44 - The Benefits of the Conversation 02:09:02 - Conclusion and Upcoming Interview with Gangaji

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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 Elie Ruzdar. And Ellie lives on Long Island, but was originally from Iran, where I spent three interesting months back in the, I guess it was 1980s, and leaving just a day or two before the Shah did. I was with a group of TM teachers who were trying to demonstrate that large groups of people meditating could actually
0:57.0	create peaceful influence on their surroundings and on the society.
1:01.0	And I don't know if we did or not, but it was interesting, meditating all day and then going
1:05.0	up on the roof of our building to watch the banks and liquor stores burn.
1:09.0	Yes, yes, amazing, yes, yes.
1:12.6	Wild times.
1:13.6	We'd take walks out on the street and people would, you know, here we are these white
1:16.6	guys walking around, people would say, you crazy, get off the street, you know, you're
1:19.6	going to get yourself killed.
1:21.6	We felt safe, but I'm sure we were naive.
1:24.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:26.6	Yeah. So it was interesting. Yeah.
1:28.3	Yeah.
1:29.3	So thanks, Ellie.
1:30.3	I've been listening to you, I listened to several hours of your interviews and talks over
1:38.3	the last week and enjoyed those.
1:41.3	And those listening to this interview will get a chance to catch up on what I heard.
1:46.0	But one thing I didn't hear too much in all that and didn't even see on your website, although
1:50.0	I looked through it, was an account of how you kind of got to where you are in terms of your
1:57.0	spiritual orientation to things. So tell us that story.
2:01.6	It's a long, long story.
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