292. Stuart Schwartz

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2015

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Recently at a Whirling Dervish Meditation in Istanbul I read how Rumi summarized his life: I was immature; I became experienced; I was consumed. I could divide this lifetime in those categories also, starting with a life driven by conditioning resulting in a very successful appearance without much satisfaction. Then the search for real happiness and peace. Decades of working with different modalities and sitting with many masters leading to teaching others how to relinquish conditioning and experience peaceful Silence. And now, Satsang starts with the truth of everyone, the perfection of Self. The tapestry of life includes all as the expression of Consciousness without any separation. Anything that attempts to obscure this truth melts in its power. Satsang is given in America, Canada and Europe as well as Private Satsang Sessions. Website: satsangwithstuart.com Book: The Great Undoing Transcript of this interview Interview conducted 5/16/2015 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:04:14 - Present in the Teaching 00:08:31 - Being at Home with Presence 00:12:40 - Finding Peace in the Unknown 00:17:19 - The Breath as a Profound and Overlooked Practice 00:21:29 - Death as Part of Life 00:25:54 - Dying to the Personality 00:30:22 - A Surprise Visit and the Next Obvious Thing 00:34:48 - Resonating with a Teacher 00:39:10 - A Conversation about Comedy and Philosophy 00:42:16 - The Joy of Expressing Yourself 00:45:25 - Going Beyond Conditioning 00:48:50 - Finding Peace in Deep Presence 00:52:16 - Sweet Blissful Experience 00:55:41 - The Truth of Who You Are 00:59:18 - Reflecting on the Meaning of Life and the Universe 01:02:39 - The Miraculous Laws of Nature 01:05:56 - The Duality of Right and Wrong 01:09:25 - Expressing the True Self 01:12:37 - Homework and Spiritual Zeal 01:15:44 - Resistance and the Joy of Rebirthing 01:19:06 - Seeking Happiness in the Outward Direction 01:22:12 - Maintaining Silence and Comprehensiveness 01:25:42 - Encouragement and Reminding Yourself 01:29:16 - A Magnificent Experience 01:32:52 - Finding Security in the Present Moment 01:36:24 - The Paradox of Personhood 01:39:37 - The Burning Sensation of Meditation 01:43:03 - The Power of Consciousness and the Breath 01:46:46 - "No Joy in Smallness" 01:49:46 - Emo Phillips and Weird Comedy

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump.
0:28.6	Buddha at the Gas Pump is an ongoing series of interviews with spiritually awake or awakening people.
0:35.6	There are nearly 300 of them now and if you go to batgap.com,
0:39.2	B-A-T-G-A-P, you'll see them all archived in various ways and there's also a donate button there
0:46.3	and the whole show is made possible by the support of viewers or listeners like you. Today my guest
0:52.0	is Stuart Schwartz. Welcome, Stuart. Hello. Stuart's in a beautiful
0:57.0	setting down in southern Florida, as you can see from the video here. And I've heard good things
1:03.9	about Stewart over several years now since I began doing this. And so I'm really pleased to have him on as a
1:09.5	guest. I think we'll start with a little quote that Stuart sent me.
1:13.6	He said he was recently at a whirling dervish meditation in Istanbul, and he read how Rumi summarized his life.
1:20.6	I was immature, I became experienced, I was consumed.
1:25.6	And Stuart said he could divide his lifetime into those categories also, starting with
1:29.9	a life driven by conditioning, resulting in a very successful appearance without much
1:33.5	satisfaction, then the search for real happiness and peace, decades of working with different
1:38.8	modalities and sitting with many masters, leading to teaching others how to relinquish conditioning
1:43.4	and experience peaceful
1:44.5	silence.
1:46.5	And now, Satsang, which Stuart conducts, starts with the truth of everyone, the perfection
1:51.6	of self.
1:52.6	And I'll keep reading here for a minute because this is nice.
1:55.0	The tapestry of life includes all as the expression of consciousness without any separation.
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