Tony Parsons - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Opening interview with guest Tony Parsons
00:02:30 - Searching for a message
00:04:56 - Separation filter and dissatisfaction
00:07:46 - Liberation from the illusion of separateness
00:10:48 - Spiritual practices and liberation
00:13:11 - Theory of quantum physics and free will
00:15:27 - The seeker lives in an illusion
00:17:52 - Deliverance regardless of story
00:20:18 - Personal Enlightenment and Personal Liberation
00:22:16 - Hidden answers and searches
00:24:37 - Difference in teaching and communication
00:26:50 - Lack of intention and motivation
00:29:01 - Immersion in artificial reality
00:31:14 - Clarity and separation in perception
00:33:24 - Life as an answer to the search for fulfillment
00:35:32 - Searching for reason, understanding and liberation
00:37:51 - Awakening and enlightenment
00:40:00 - Search
00:42:11 - "Liberation and infinite energy"
00:44:06 - Existence of a Universal Energy
00:46:04 - Appearance of suffering
00:48:26 - Back to the individual perspective
00:50:37 - Nothing is infinite energy
00:52:42 - Meaning of divine
00:54:57 - Contributions by Tony Parsons and the important difference between description and prescription
00:57:01 - Apparent reincarnation and karma
00:59:38 - The illusion of time and reality
01:01:36 - Illusory elephant and tree
01:03:17 - The impact of implementation on family life
01:05:41 - Searching for enlightenment
01:07:48 - Upcoming Interviews and Notifications

The Open Secret message is totally radical and uncompromising. It is a rare and singular expression of absolute non-dualism. It bypasses the mind and speaks directly to the very core of a wisdom that is imminent in all of us. When there is a readiness to hear, all seeking and need for personal endeavor falls away, leaving simply the wonder of what is.

There is no me or you, no seeker, no enlightenment, no disciple and no guru. There is no better or worse, no path, and nothing that has to be achieved. All appearance is source. All that apparently manifests -- the world, the life story, the hypnotic dream of separation, the search for home -- is the one appearing as two, the nothing appearing as everything, the absolute appearing as the particular.

There is no separate intelligence weaving a destiny, and no choice functioning at any level. Nothing is happening, but this, as it is, invites the apparent seeker to rediscover that which already is...the abiding, uncaused, unchanging, impersonal silence from which unconditional love overflows and celebrates. It is the wonderful mystery.

Tony Parsons has been sharing this "open secret" with people for over thirty years. His talks and workshops are highly regarded in England, Western Europe and, more recently, North America.

Interview recorded 2/2/2012