741. Emeline Lambert – Remembering Our True Nature

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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In this conversation, Emeline Lambert shares her profound spiritual journey, beginning with her childhood experiences of feeling extremely out of place in a world that seemed illusionary and pointless. “Who am I?” was the question that was always too terrifying to answer. She purposefully tried to cover up the truth of her deepest Self through the limitations of ego and performance art; leading to years of depression, anxiety and PTSD. A turning point in her life occurred during a retreat that invited a significant shift in consciousness and a deeper understanding of her true nature. Emeline discusses the impact of meditation and presence on her life, the changes in her relationships “post-shift”, and the necessity of acceptance, self-observation and compassion. She emphasizes the role of nature as part of any spiritual practice and the ongoing, endless unfolding that is self-discovery. In this conversation, Emeline and Rick explore profound themes surrounding awakening to our true nature, love, and the gift that suffering becomes in the process of awakening. They discuss the differences between knowledge and experience, emphasizing that awakening is a collective impulse rather than an individual desire. The dialogue touches on the importance of surrendering to the essence of “what is”, the impact of the mind's commentary on suffering, and the significance of service in spiritual practice. Emeline shares her insights on the flow state in practical applications and the understanding of the shadow self, ultimately highlighting that awakening is an ongoing phenomenon that occurs beyond the architecture of the man-made sense of separate self. Emeline volunteers with the New York–based non-profit City Voices, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about mental illness and addiction recovery through peer-led support programs, spiritual groups, and self-awareness activities. She co-facilitates their Saturday Spirituality Group and leads regular meditations. Email: [email protected] Website: cityvoicesonline.org Emeline's personal email: [email protected] Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group Interview recorded October 12, 2025

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0:00.0	Breaking news, everyone, you are it. There is nothing outside of you right here, right now,
0:04.6	that will add onto the realization of your true nature that you are seeking. You are it. There is
0:09.9	nothing outside of you that will fill any illusionary void within. Nothing needs to be added to
0:15.0	the absolute being that you are for you to realize your true nature. What needs to be done is actually things need to be removed.
0:23.2	The onion needs to be peeled off.
0:25.4	The layers need to be removed.
0:33.6	Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump.
0:36.1	My name is Rick Archer.
0:38.1	Buddha at the gas pump, if you've never seen it, is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people, done well over 700 of them now.
0:49.2	And if this is new to you and you would like to check out the previous ones, please go to backgap.com, B-A-T-G-A-P, and look under the past interviews menu,
0:59.1	where you'll find them all organized in various ways.
1:03.1	You'll find other things on the site that you might find interesting, such as a spiritual
1:06.9	AI chatbot, which has hundreds of thousands of documents loaded into its data corpus,
1:15.7	including 1,700 of the world's sacred texts, and you can ask it all kinds of spiritual
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1:29.2	So if you appreciate it and would like to help support it, please go to batgap.com
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1:40.9	My guest today is Emmeline Lambert.
1:43.9	I'm going to have her pretty much introduce herself.
1:47.0	She was an actress.
1:48.8	She was in something called House of the Dragon, which was a prequel to Game of Thrones,
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