Tony Parsons - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

Discussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group: Also see 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 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