176. Alon Halel Geva

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2013

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Alon has practiced Awareness Meditation for years and works with individuals and groups worldwide. Alon shares knowledge with anyone who wants to be awakened. Anyone who wants to awaken from the dream is welcome to contact Alon. Email YouTube Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded 5/18/2013 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction and Biography 00:04:37 - The Organic Growth of My Teaching Journey 00:07:55 - The Illusion of Helping Others 00:10:46 - Discrimination and Illusions 00:13:32 - The Illusion of the World 00:16:45 - Inquiry into the Mind's Nature 00:20:15 - The Disappearance of the Mind 00:22:55 - The Mind's Reactivity and Conflict 00:25:43 - The Illusion of Thoughts and the Reality of Pure Consciousness 00:28:10 - The Illusion of Thought and Identification 00:31:08 - The Illusion of Interacting with People 00:34:01 - The Illusion of the Ego 00:37:43 - The Illusion of Identity 00:40:10 - The Mind's Preferences vs. the Body's Preferences 00:42:47 - The Burning Desire to Be Free 00:45:17 - Integration of the Absolute and the Relative in Life 00:48:07 - Burning of Vasanas 00:50:13 - The Pointers of Truth and Universal Obstacles 00:52:30 - The Conceptual Image of Ramana 00:54:55 - Degrees of Identification 00:57:15 - Degrees of Enlightenment 01:00:45 - Losing Everything for the Truth 01:03:53 - Facing Internal Pain and Finding Liberation 01:07:38 - Exploring Silence and Realignment with the Tao 01:10:59 - The Illusion of the External Universe 01:13:14 - Recognizing the Unreality of Things 01:15:06 - The Illusion of Being a Human Being 01:16:54 - The Illusion of Physical Form 01:19:52 - Waking Up from the Dream 01:22:57 - The Power of Silence 01:26:06 - Contacting through Facebook and other platforms

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha the gas pump.
0:28.9	My name is Rick Archer, and my guest this week is Alon Gava.
0:32.4	Welcome alone, or I should say Shalom.
0:35.7	Hello.
0:38.0	Alone is in Israel, right?
0:40.6	And I don't know too much about you because most of your YouTube videos were in Hebrew,
0:46.3	although I listened to a number of them.
0:48.6	So perhaps you could fill us in by just giving us a little biographical sketch to begin with,
0:55.5	of who you are and how you came to be serving in the capacity of a spiritual teacher or spokesman
1:03.9	or however you would define yourself.
1:32.3	So basically, I think I began a search about 23 years ago, and it all began through the body. And as I was working and studying regarding the body through an art,
1:41.3	I realized that the whole boundary is the mind. The limitation is in the mind.
1:53.0	And as I was looking and seeing how I can be free from fear and from the mind itself,
2:03.9	I realized that I'm actually in jail.
2:07.1	In jail?
2:08.2	In jail, that I created myself.
2:12.0	And I realized that I do not know the way out.
2:16.4	So I began looking within, examining, checking.
2:23.7	And as life led me, I met a being who shared knowledge.
2:29.6	And he called it absolute knowledge.
2:32.1	And when I heard that that it was puzzling because
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