208. Fred Davis

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2013

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Fred Davis studied and practiced Eastern wisdom for twenty-five years prior to 2006 when his seeking ended, and his true awakening commenced. He is the creator and editor of Awakening Clarity Now and the founder of The Living Method of Awakening. He is also the author of The Book of Undoing: Direct Pointing to Nondual Awareness Beyond Recovery: Nonduality and the Twelve Steps Awakening Clarity: A Spiritual Sampler The Living Method of Awakening is an extraordinarily successful process of direct pointing that encourages immediate recognition of our shared True Nature. Hundreds of people on five continents have found the door to freedom using The Living Method. His work has appeared on Advaita Vision, Nonduality Living, Meeting Truth, ONE: The Magazine, and it shows up frequently in Nondual Highlights. He is happily married, deeply loves animals, and lives as a chiefly ignored, urban hermit in Columbia, South Carolina. It has recently come to public attention that Fred was convicted in 2006 for sex offenses he committed as a teenager, in the 1960s. He addresses the issue on his blog. Transcript of this interview Interview conducted 12/1/2013 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Fred Davis 00:05:43 - Awakening in the Insane Asylum 00:09:24 - My Journey with Zen Meditation and Self-Inquiry 00:13:33 - Knocking Your Head Against the Walls Spirituality 00:18:45 - Losing it All, Finding Sobriety, and Seeking True Nature 00:23:51 - Finding Freedom through Surrender 00:28:38 - The Mysterious Collapsing Flower Pots 00:32:15 - Struggles and Finding Relief 00:35:26 - The Awakening Experience 00:39:12 - The Real Deal Breaker 00:42:38 - A Unique Jail Experience 00:46:00 - The Journey of Suffering and Awakening 00:50:45 - A Shift in Perspective and Awakening 00:55:45 - The Mind Wants Either/Or 00:58:46 - The Unfolding Process of Enlightenment 01:03:26 - The Mind's Either/Or Dilemma 01:08:00 - Starting Awakening Clarity 01:10:57 - Surprise Awakening and Egoic Pleasure 01:14:42 - The Awakening Process and Sharing Insights 01:18:48 - Awakening and the Importance of Context 01:23:05 - Clarity about the I Am 01:27:43 - Discovering Oneness 01:32:05 - The possibility of anyone becoming a spiritual teacher 01:35:27 - The Drive Towards Self-Recognition 01:39:28 - The Subtleties of Non-Duality to Guide Awakening 01:42:58 - Stabilizing and Refining the Mind 01:46:29 - Beliefs, Opinions, and Positions 01:51:10 - The Difficulty of Getting Out of Bed 01:55:37 - Continuous Thinning of Conditioning 02:02:53 - Challenges of On-Camera Sessions 02:08:52 - Signing up for the iTunes podcast

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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 Fred Davis. I began hearing about Fred a little while back. I started getting all these ravingly enthusiastic
0:39.4	emails about him from various people. I might even read a couple of excerpts. I thought, well,
0:45.3	you've got to have this guy on, I guess. Fred studied and practiced Eastern Wisdom for 25 years prior
0:51.5	to 2006 when his seeking ended and his true awakening commenced.
0:57.0	He is the creator and editor of Awakening Clarity Now and the founder of the Living Method of Awakening.
1:03.0	He is also the author of The Book of Undoing, Direct Pointing to Non-Dual Awareness, Beyond Recovery,
1:09.0	Non-Duality and the the 12 steps, and awakening clarity,
1:13.9	a spiritual sampler. The living method of awakening is an extraordinarily successful process
1:19.7	of direct pointing that encourages immediate recognition of our shared true nature. Hundreds
1:25.8	of people on five continents have found the door to freedom using the living method.
1:30.0	His work has appeared on Advaitavision, non-duality living, meeting truth, one, the magazine,
1:37.9	and it also shows up frequently in non-dual highlights, but so far not the Oprah show.
1:45.6	He is happily married.
1:47.2	This is the lead-in.
1:48.0	Yeah, right.
1:48.7	So he is happily married, deeply loves animals,
1:52.1	and lives as a chiefly ignored urban hermit in Columbia, South Carolina,
1:57.6	deep in the Bible Belt.
2:00.1	That's right.
2:00.9	The very buckle. Yeah's right. Very buckle.
2:02.3	Yeah, right.
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