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Buddha at the Gas Pump

119. Neelam

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7695 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2012

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Neelam, a native of Poland, has been giving Satsang internationally since 1996. She is a direct disciple of H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji), who himself awakened to the truth in the presence of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Neelam shares Satsang with Papaji's blessing. Known for her simplicity, skillful discrimination, and intuitive insight, Neelam gently points toward the truth at the core of us all. With her extensive personal and teaching experience, she uses inquiry to facilitate us in identifying and moving through deep-seated patterns of conditioning, bringing us to rest in Presence. Self-Inquiry is the very core of this teaching and is based on Sri Ramana Maharshi's guidelines for Self-Inquiry. Neelam's unique development of inquiry includes both recognizing our true nature and meeting our conditioning fully, with tenderness. Neelam's website Summary and Transcript of this interview. Interview recorded 4/15/2012 2nd interview with Neelam YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - The Presence of Our Nature 00:04:16 - Training our attention to rest in our true nature 00:07:22 - Recognizing the Fullness of Who We Are 00:10:04 - Finding stillness amidst the busyness 00:13:00 - Finding Quiet Time in Daily Life 00:15:45 - Starting with Five Minutes a Day 00:18:28 - Using the sensations of the body 00:21:05 - Integration on the Physical Level 00:23:30 - The Power of Looking Inward 00:25:37 - Tenderness and Our True Nature 00:28:03 - The Coarsening of Tenderness 00:30:18 - Being at Rest or Suffering 00:32:37 - Resting in Tenderness and Naturalness 00:35:24 - The Strength of True Vulnerability 00:38:21 - The Transformational Journey 00:41:39 - Recognizing the Natural State 00:45:07 - The Deceptiveness of the Mind 00:48:01 - The Disappearance of Individuality 00:51:09 - The Shift in Experience 00:54:07 - The Unusual Experiences on the Spiritual Path 00:57:26 - From Bliss to Satsang 01:00:49 - An Awakening Journey 01:04:38 - The Shift and Fulfillment of the Experience 01:08:32 - Levels of Awareness and Destiny 01:11:12 - The Need for Embodiment and Remaining in Awareness 01:14:12 - Surrendering to the Momentum of the Past 01:17:53 - The Power of Transmission 01:21:24 - The Desire for Freedom and Seeking 01:24:49 - The Presence of Ramana in Visitations 01:28:22 - The Vastness of the Universe 01:31:35 - Farewell and Music Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.

0:29.3

My name is Rick Archer, and my guest this week is Nelam.

0:33.1

Welcome, Neelam.

0:35.4

Welcome.

0:36.5

I'm glad I'm here.

0:40.4

I am too. I've been looking forward to this for a long time and i have some very dear old friends who have been students of yours for many years and who you know

0:46.4

i think i've been encouraging both of us to do this so i'm glad that we finally got around to doing it

0:52.9

yeah i'm happy I'm happy.

0:55.3

I'm happy about it, too.

0:59.3

So, I don't always start interviews this way,

1:00.9

but in your case, for some reason,

1:04.5

I have the feeling to just ask you to summarize for us what you would say your basic teaching is.

1:08.6

Would that be okay?

1:10.1

Yeah, yeah.

1:11.2

Okay. Yeah, so,? Yeah, yeah. Okay.

1:22.7

Yeah. So, you know, that's, I would say that's, um, let's just be quiet for a moment,

1:25.9

you know, let's just sit quietly for a moment here. So, you know, because maybe the most important thing to say, and the most important thing to remember is that presence or our nature

2:04.0

or who we really are

2:06.4

that that is already here

2:09.5

so that no matter where we are

2:14.6

no matter what's going on no matter

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