151. J. Stewart Dixon

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2012

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

J. Stewart Dixon is an awakening/enlightenment adviser, author, and blogger. Born in 1969, J. Stewart Dixon spent most of his adult life seeking spiritual awakening/enlightenment in the company of some of the world’s preeminent spiritual luminaries, including Adi Da, Gangaji, Satyam Nadeen, Andrew Cohen, Arjuna Ardagh, Michael Regan, Solane’, Ram Dass, Saniel Bonder, Eli Jaxon-Bear, A. Ramana, Mooji, Francis Lucille, Yogi Bhajan, Robert Monroe, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, and Ammachi. His own awakening process began in 2004 and concluded in 2010. Websites, Books, Services: 21 Days: A nuts & bolts blue-collar memoir/guide of nondual Advaita spiritual awakening/enlightenment for beginners: An account of extraordinary magic amidst ordinary life | An easy-to-read description of authentic awakening, free of religious, spiritual, philosophical, or psychological jargon: What is it like when you have a family to care for and a business to run, when you're AWAKE? What is it like when you're visiting your parents, your old high school, or your church when you're AWAKE? ...TV? ...Fly-Fishing? ...Movies? The description of awakening in 21 Days is meant to be a precise guide and compass for the awakening seeker. Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 12/1/2012 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to "21 Days, A Guide for Spiritual Beginners" 00:03:40 - A Parable to Break up the Book 00:07:22 - Softening through Spiritual Awakening 00:11:16 - The Dark Night of the Soul 00:15:15 - A Process of Self-Awareness, Self-Acceptance, and Transference 00:19:57 - Awakening and the End of Existential Depression 00:23:36 - Understanding the Concept of No-Self 00:28:55 - Bringing Awakening Down to the Ordinary 00:33:17 - The Need for Reverence and Sacredness 00:37:03 - The Flooded Market of Awakening Teachers 00:40:08 - The Nature of the Awakening 00:43:30 - The Intensity of Awakening and Enlightenment 00:46:52 - Embracing Intensity and Desires 00:50:31 - The Mysterious Process of Transference 00:53:53 - Glamorizing Ordinary People 00:57:44 - The Mystery of Self and No Self 01:02:36 - The Paradox of Self and No Self 01:06:22 - Longing for Genuine Interactions 01:09:46 - Aligning Life with Fulfilling Interactions 01:13:36 - The Dominant Reality - Turning the Tables 01:17:15 - The Sumptuousness of Realization 01:19:40 - The Nature of "More Please" 01:22:16 - The Tendency for Vertical Growth 01:25:42 - Confronting Existential Fear 01:29:57 - The Blue-Collar Awakening 01:33:47 - The Video Game Analogy and Life After Awakening 01:38:10 - Living in the Moment and Planning for the Future 01:42:28 - Awakening and the Fulfillment of Life 01:46:50 - Finding a Path Towards Awakening 01:51:25 - Acknowledging the Wounded Part in All of Us 01:54:39 - Keeping it Free for Everyone

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:29.2	My name is Rick Archer, and my guest this week is Jeff Stuart Dixon.
0:34.6	Welcome, Jeff.
0:35.6	Thanks, Rick.
0:36.6	And Jeff wrote a book called 21 Days, A Guide for Spiritual Beginners,
0:42.2	which I read and enjoyed, a very sort of down-to-earth entertaining story about his own
0:48.7	spiritual odyssey, intermixed with raising a sun, fishing, and taking lots of naps.
0:56.0	Yeah, right.
0:57.1	Sounds like a pretty good life to me.
0:59.8	Well, you know, it's a book.
1:01.9	It's, uh, what can I say?
1:05.3	Yeah.
1:06.1	So, I think you mentioned that you called it 21 days because it represents 21 days in your life.
1:12.6	Although, as I read it, I somehow got the impression that it spanned a larger time span.
1:17.2	So explain that or run us through what you'd like to say about it.
1:19.9	Sure.
1:20.7	So essentially, 21 days is the, there are 21 chapters, and each chapter is a day.
1:32.3	And there was a period where, in my own awakening process, that I passed through, for me,
1:42.0	was a very important doorway.
1:43.2	And I knew that what had happened was
1:47.0	important to the extent that I felt like I wanted to write about it and so I immediately started
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