592. Richard Rohr

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He is the founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation and academic dean of the CAC’s Living School. An internationally recognized author and spiritual leader, Fr. Richard teaches primarily on incarnational mysticism, non-dual consciousness, and contemplation, with a particular emphasis on how these affect the social justice issues of our time. Podcast: Another Name for Every Thing A few of Fr. Rohr's 30+ books: The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe Every Thing Is Sacred: 40 Practices and Reflections on the Universal Christ The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and transcript of this interview. Interview recorded March 27, 2021 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:02:10 - The Vast Universe and the Universal Christ 00:04:02 - Jesus and the Universal Concept of the Christ 00:06:22 - The Cosmic Notion of Christ 00:08:33 - A New Cosmology and Universalizing Jesus' Message 00:10:49 - The Small Box of Religion 00:12:54 - The Marvel of Intelligence and Creativity 00:14:53 - Caring for Creation and Social Justice 00:16:54 - Saving the Worms 00:18:55 - Changing Notions of God 00:21:12 - The Exclusionary Nature of Theology 00:23:18 - The Journey from Order to Re-order 00:25:41 - Embracing Polarities and Diversities 00:28:05 - The breadth of freedom and social order 00:30:00 - Love God and Do What You Want 00:32:15 - The Changing Grand Canyon 00:34:20 - The Multifaceted Nature of Causality 00:36:39 - The "Father Wound" and the Atonement 00:38:50 - The Transformation of Religion 00:40:46 - The Healing Environment of the Prison System 00:42:09 - The Loneliness and Cutthroat Nature of Prison Life 00:43:36 - The Communion of Saints 00:45:22 - The Interconnectedness of Humanity and Collective Consciousness 00:46:55 - The Fall and Autonomy 00:48:33 - The Fall and the Wounded Condition 00:50:02 - The Happy Fault and the Rediscovery of Non-Duality 00:51:36 - Great Love and Great Suffering 00:53:19 - The Power of Love and Suffering 00:54:53 - Jesus's justice strategy 00:56:29 - Solidarity vs Sacrifice 00:58:19 - Dipping into the Ocean of Richard Rohr

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:28.0	My name is Rick Archer.
0:29.8	Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people.
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1:00.3	My guest today is Father Richard Rohr.
1:03.9	Father Rohr is a Franciscan priest, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
1:12.9	an academic dean of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an academic dean of the Center for Action and Contemplation's Living School.
1:16.6	An internationally recognized author and spiritual leader, Father Richard, teaches primarily
1:21.5	on incarnational mysticism, non-dual consciousness, and contemplation, with a particular emphasis on how these affect the social justice issues of our time.
1:32.4	His work has been featured on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday and Krista Tippett's On Being and in the New York Times and so forth.
1:41.8	So thank you, Richard, for doing this.
1:43.9	I've wanted to talk to you for a long time,
1:45.6	so I'm glad we were able to do it. I'm happy to be with you. Thank you. Thank you.
1:52.0	I thought we might start with the bang by zooming out to the kind of biggest perspective we could have,
1:59.0	and then getting more into the details after that.
2:04.2	I'm always inspired by astronomy. My desktop pictures are pictures of galaxies and stuff,
2:10.2	you know, that they just keep changing every few minutes. Right now, I'm looking at nebulae as I'm
2:15.0	talking to you. As you know, for most of the history of Christianity, people thought that the Earth was the
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