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Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 98 minutes

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“The spiritual journey does not consist in gaining what a person does not have, but in dissipation of ignorance concerning himself and life, and the growth of understanding which begins with spiritual awakening. To find God is to come to one’s own self.” - Avatar Meher Baba. No longer the person with its conditioning and history, here now there is only this and the overall feeling is “I don’t mind.” No fear, no push, a great emptiness that is also a rich and all-pervading fullness. Here there is silence, peace and an exquisite sense of joy. Here it feels so light there is no distance, ‘marinating in the self.’ It is as if nothing is happening here yet happening graciously unfolds. To look back at the dream, the necessary mistaken identity, it seemed like so much happened. Personhood was such psychological suffering. Separation, a feverish, fearful struggle, always restless, dissatisfied, looking outside for love and fulfillment. Now peace, and love reside here. I have spent thirty years with Avatar Meher Baba in deep devotion. Baba has administered his kiss and his kick, expertly unraveling the ego identity. Longing for the truth and with nothing more to express in this life, I knew I was going to die, not sure if it was the body or the ego, I completely surrendered. Shortly after, whilst watching Mooji on the net, he pointed, and I said with total conviction, “I am That”. In that recognition I hysterically and uncontrollably laughed for hours. When I could hardly breathe from the laughter and I asked God to help me, the laughter only escalated. The funniest thing, the divine joke was that I knew I had always been that. I love Meher Baba and Mooji - the brightest reflections of the true self I know. It is quiet here as I experience the bliss and love of the self. Book: Hot Flush Dark Cave: One Woman’s Spiritual Transformation Through Menopause Website: awakeningthroughthebody.com.au Facebook page: Awakening Through the Body Transcript of this interview Interview recorded 7/9/2016 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:03:34 - Surrendering to the Truth 00:06:44 - The Sentience of the Universe and Implore for a Response 00:10:03 - Nature as a Religion 00:13:38 - Discovering Meher Baba, Marriage, and Spiritual Seeking 00:16:34 - Falling in Love and Visiting Meher Baba 00:19:28 - Overwhelming Love in Baba's Tomb 00:23:19 - The Strange Experience at Baba's Tomb 00:26:18 - The Accumulation of Suffering 00:29:37 - The Desperate Longing for Change 00:33:42 - The Development of the Heart 00:37:32 - Appreciating the Beauty of Life 00:40:49 - Maharishi's Example of Appreciating God's Creation 00:44:08 - Initiation and Transformation 00:47:50 - Revisiting Past Lives 00:51:21 - The Liberation of Guilt and Baggage 00:54:37 - The Transmission of Energy and Awareness 00:58:01 - Divine Encounters and Spirit Guides 01:01:10 - Healing Experiences and Subtle Spheres 01:04:03 - Passing Messages 01:06:32 - The Chariot of Our Life 01:10:00 - Healing Traumatic Experiences 01:13:39 - The Deep Release 01:17:10 - The Experience of Chronic Fatigue and Pain 01:20:44 - Releasing Fear through Shaking 01:24:05 - The Self in All Beings and Nature 01:27:53 - The Paradox of Devotion and Non-Duality 01:31:39 - The Beginning of the Involution 01:35:07 - Final Words and the TRE Practice 01:38:04 - Setting up a Nature Retreat 01:40:24 - Conclusion and Next week's episode Save

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:27.6	My name is Rick Archer.
0:29.6	Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of interviews with spiritually awakening people.
0:34.6	There have been about 350 of them now, and if this is new to you, you can go to batcap.com,
0:39.7	and you'll find them all, all the previous ones, organized, categorized in various ways under
0:45.5	the past interviews menu. This show is made possible by the support of appreciative listeners
0:50.9	and viewers, so if you feel like supporting it, there's a donate button on the site there.
0:56.0	So thanks. My guest today is Tree Wise Blood. That wasn't her original name, and maybe we'll get into how she ended up with that name.
1:06.0	She's in Australia, out in the boondocks, outside, or the outback as they call it, somewhere near Sydney.
1:13.6	She's on 17 acres of land.
1:16.6	She said she was watching wallabies and kangaroos jumping around this morning.
1:20.6	And in fact, it is morning for her right now. It's about 8 o'clock in the morning.
1:23.6	There, 5 o'clock for me.
1:25.6	I read her book, which Hot Flush Dark Cave is the title
1:30.3	of it. And it's, in essence, about menopause as a spiritual phase of life, a spiritual
1:40.3	opportunity. But there's all kinds of very interesting things in it that happened to her during
1:45.0	that phase. But first, before we get into any of that, I would like to read her bio.
1:51.0	The spiritual journey does not consist in gaining what a person does not have, but in dissipation
1:58.0	of ignorance concerning himself and life and the growth of understanding
2:02.2	which begins with spiritual awakening. To find God is to come to one's own self. And that's
2:08.2	from Avatar Meher Baba, of whom Tree has been a devotee for many decades. And it's kind
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