456. Dean Sluyter

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Dean Sluyter (pronounced "slighter") has taught natural methods of meditation and awakening since 1970. His five highly acclaimed books include Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice (Amazon #1 stress management bestseller, and Nautilus Gold Medal winner for best mind-body-spirit book) and Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction. Dean gives talks, workshops, and retreats throughout the United States and beyond, from Ivy League colleges to maximum-security prisons. His media appearances have included National Public Radio, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Coast to Coast AM, The Dr. Oz Show, and O, The Oprah Magazine. A grateful student of Eastern and Western sages in several traditions, Dean has completed numerous pilgrimages and retreats in India, Tibet, Nepal, and the West. He is known for conveying authentic teachings in forms that are relaxed, accessible, and down-to-earth. When not writing or teaching, he plays the ukulele and happily rides his Vespa through the streets of Santa Monica. Other books: The Zen Commandments: Ten Suggestions for a Life of Inner Freedom. Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies Why the Chicken Crossed the Road: & Other Hidden Enlightenment Teachings from the Buddha to Bebop to Mother Goose Website: deansluyter.com Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Transcript of this interview Interview recorded May 26, 2018. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:06:06 - The Principle of Effortlessness 00:11:15 - The Effortlessness of Meditation 00:16:26 - Resting as Awareness and Mindfulness 00:21:18 - Finding Fulfillment within Ourselves 00:26:29 - Happiness and the Nature of Awareness 00:31:54 - The Illusion of an External Universe 00:37:26 - The Existence of the Moon and Reality 00:42:25 - Shifting Perspectives and the Materialistic Worldview 00:47:12 - The Paper Tiger 00:51:05 - The Stories We Read 00:55:00 - Finding the Divine in Unexpected Places 00:58:59 - Functioning from the Zone 01:02:52 - Support of Nature and Synchronicity 01:06:27 - The Intersection of Spirituality and Science 01:10:18 - The Misconception of Alpha Waves 01:13:57 - Relaxing at the Moment of Contact 01:17:29 - Sharing with the Sweetest Dog in the World 01:21:30 - Breaking the Habit of Worry 01:25:28 - Cessation of Suffering through Mind Control 01:29:20 - Arrival at the Villa of the Hippie Artist Commune 01:33:34 - Cultivating Devotion and Appreciation 01:37:30 - The Shaky Ground of Devotion 01:41:37 - Movies as Conduits of Higher Wisdom 01:45:28 - Einstein's Classroom in Princeton 01:49:03 - The Healing Power of Meditation and Conscious Contact 01:53:06 - Bill Wilson's Meditation Experience 01:57:04 - The Lord of Destruction 02:01:25 - Finding Liberation in Loss 02:05:48 - Cooperating with the Cosmic Purpose 02:09:24 - Ways to Support the Channel

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump.
0:27.8	My name is Rick Archer.
0:29.5	Buddha at the Gas Pump is an ongoing series of interviews with spiritually awakening people.
0:34.8	I've done hundreds of them now.
0:36.6	And if this is new to you, and you'd like to
0:38.3	check out previous ones, go to batgap.com and look under the past interviews menu. This program
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0:50.4	feel like supporting it to any degree, there are PayPal buttons on every page of the site.
0:55.8	My guest today is an old friend of mine named Dean Slyder.
1:00.2	I know Dean from, he and I became teachers of Transcendental Meditation on the same course in
1:05.9	SS Park, Colorado in the fall of 1970.
1:09.5	And we have done different things over the years since then.
1:13.2	And Dean has been teaching natural methods of meditation, not necessarily TM.
1:19.3	Since then, he's written a number of highly acclaimed books, including one called Natural
1:24.5	Meditation, which was an Amazon number one stress management bestseller.
1:30.2	And a number of other books will be talking about one of them today called Fearless.
1:36.7	Dean has done a bunch of stuff.
1:42.2	Let me start by asking you, I heard you say in an interview with Dennis from Monday and Phil Goldberg on Spirit Matters talk that you kind of left the TM movement because he got uncomfortable with how high the prices had become.
1:57.8	Is that the main thing?
1:59.2	Yeah, there was that.
2:00.5	That was finally the thing that kind of forced me out of the nest,
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