262. Unmani – 2nd Interview

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Unmani is originally from the UK, but has lived a nomadic life in many countries around the world from the age of 18. Unlike most people, since she was a child, Unmani never identified with being a ‘person’ in the world, but she felt very lost and alone in a world that everyone else seemed to take so seriously. She spent years traveling around the world trying on different roles and identities to see if any of them fit. Disappointed with each role, she continued searching to find a way out of the pain she felt. She spent some time in the Osho centre in Pune, India, and there discovered meditation, free expression, and other insightful wisdom. But although this brought her more relaxation, it did not seem to get to the root of her search. Some years later she met the German Zen master, Dolano. With her, Unmani recognized that what she had been searching for had always been right here. She woke up to the dream, time stopped and the search ended. She no longer needed to try to fit in or be someone, because Unmani had finally acknowledged the truth of who she really is. Unmani began holding meetings and retreats 3 years later. She is the author of two books ‘I am Life itself’ and ‘Die to Love’ and is now writing a third book. Meeting with Unmani is meeting with yourself in the most real and alive way. It is not about chasing sweet spiritual experiences that come, and then sadly go. Dialogues with Unmani are a fundamental and intimate enquiry that cut through all philosophies and belief systems. Unmani encourages people to truly face their deepest fears, to no longer blindly buy into dreamy hopes, and to wake up to the reality of life. Unmani holds meetings and intensives all over the world, and also online. These are aimed towards people who are genuinely willing to risk losing what they think they know, to courageously take a step into the alive unknown. Website: die-to-love.com Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded 10/26/2014 1st Batgap interview with Unmani. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to the Interview with Inmani 00:02:08 - The Evolution of Lived Experience 00:04:27 - Being an Instrument for People's Evolution 00:06:31 - The Role of an Ordinary Life 00:08:33 - Embracing Paradoxes in Life 00:11:04 - The Paradox of Human Experience 00:13:10 - Knowing the True Nature of Reality 00:15:56 - Embracing the Human Experience 00:17:24 - The rejection of the person and the journey back 00:19:04 - Embracing the Human Experience 00:21:07 - Letting Go to Know Real Love 00:23:15 - Moving from Description to Prescription in Spiritual Practice 00:24:54 - The Exhaustion with Holding onto Beliefs 00:26:48 - The Motivation for Practice 00:29:05 - Growing Attunement and Sensitivity 00:31:10 - Reading and understanding emotions 00:32:58 - The Importance of a Safe Container 00:35:12 - The Transformation of Ordinary Lives 00:37:26 - Discovering Your Inner Power 00:39:33 - The Pursuit of Profound Awakening 00:41:04 - The Nature of Awakening 00:43:07 - The Love of What Is True 00:45:04 - Unique Journeys to Enlightenment 00:46:49 - Recognizing Your Real Authority 00:49:03 - The Unique Expressions of Consciousness 00:51:06 - Unravelings and Adventures of Consciousness 00:52:43 - The Nature of Thought 00:54:20 - Living on the Move 00:55:29 - Catching Up with Unmani 00:56:56 - Buddha the Gas Pump Website Tour 00:58:35 - End

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha the Gaspa. My name is Rick Archer. And if you've been watching this show regularly, you may have noticed that I'm doing a lot of interviews out at the Science and Non-Duality Conference out in California, which is what I love to do. So it's really fun for me to be here to connect with new friends and old,
0:42.3	and here's an old friend, Unmani. I interviewed Unmani about three years ago, I think it was,
0:49.3	and I listened to her interview on the plane on the way out.
0:57.4	And in that interview we mostly, and you can go back and listen to that one,
1:00.5	incidentally, I'll have a link to it on the page, which you may have found this interview.
1:07.6	But in that one, we mostly covered kind of a chronological history of her spiritual unfoldment and so on,
1:12.2	and various things she had done in places she had gone, people she had studied with,
1:18.2	things like that. So we won't repeat any of that. But one thing that came out in the interview,
1:24.4	at least my impression as I listened to it, was that, and this fits very well with my philosophy,
1:28.2	is that we're all works in progress. I don't care how advanced somebody is,
1:35.1	they're still progressing, in my opinion. Maybe Moni differs in that opinion will give us something to talk about. So I thought maybe we'd start by just playing catch-up and, you know, seeing what's
1:39.9	been happening with you in the last few years, and I'm sure that will stimulate all kinds
1:44.5	of conversation.
1:45.5	Well, a lot of endless evolving and maturing has been happening and I totally agree with
1:53.8	what you were saying.
1:56.2	There's no end to this opening, unraveling, unfolding as this human.
2:01.6	Of course, who I really am, life itself doesn't evolve, doesn't need to evolve,
2:09.6	but the lived experience of that is all about evolution.
2:14.6	And of course, the mind doesn't really understand how that
2:18.3	paradox could be, but it is anyway. And part of the evolution is not buying into
2:25.0	our beliefs about how things should be anyway. Yeah, so that's been more about
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