Name: Adyashanti & Francis Bennett on "Resurrecting Jesus" - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview
Uploaded: 2018-01-04T13:00:47.000Z
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My name is Rick Archer,
and I have the privilege today of hosting

a conversation between Adyashanti
and Francis Bennett.

We'll be talking about
Adyashanti's book, "Resurrecting Jesus".

I listened to the audio version of this book
and I had the feeling, as I was reading it

that it was something I could read
or listen to repeatedly, periodically

in my own spiritual development
I would be able to appreciate

deeper and deeper levels of what
Adyashanti was bringing out in the book.

I think it has a lot of vertical dimension to it.

Um...Francis read the book four times
(Laughter)

including once when... (Francis interrupts)
- It's kind of right up my alley, I would say.

(Laughter)
Oh, so, I assume he liked it (laughter).

Adyashanti is the author of
"The Way of Liberation",

"Resurrecting Jesus", "True Meditation",
and "The End of Your World".

He is an American-born spiritual teacher,
devoted to serving the awakening

of all beings. His teachings are an open
invitation to stop, inquire, and recognize

what is true and liberating
at the core of all existence.

Asked to teach in 1996
by his Zen teacher of 14 years,

Adyashanti offers teachings that are free
of any tradition or ideaology.

Quote, "The truth I point to is not confined
within any religious point of view,

belief system or doctrine, but is open
to all and found within all." - end quote.

He teaches throughout North America
and Europe.

Offering Satsangs and weekend intensives,
silent retreats,

sociable young man....
- He's still relatively sociable. (Laughter)

Who answered the call
to a life of spiritual adventure

as a contemplative in the Monastary
of the order of Sistertions

of the strict observance,
commonly known as "trappists".

Thomas Merton, the pioneer
and Christian mystic of the 20th Century,

and it was Merton's influence
that led Francis

within the frameworks of Christianity,
Buddhism, Advaita,

Francis has worked with the sick and dying

since he moved away from the gnostic life.

"a radical perceptual shift in consciousness",

which made it clear that the pure awareness

that is at the heart of all, is no different

been seeking outside of himself for so long.

pretty much every point, I felt,
could easily be

a springboard for a whole
conversation. It's very rich.

and I kept thinking, what are we going to talk 
about

because there's so many different 
angles we can take,

and you know, it could 
be so comprehensive?

Francis and Adya will just 
get into a conversation

Maybe I'll have a couple of 
questions towards the end.

Which is unlike the way I 
usually do interviews - but...

we will leave to those 
who say I talk too much.

Francis: Well, Glenda from 
"The Wizard of Oz"

says, "it's best to start from the beginning." 
Right? [Laughter]

Isn't that the line from 
"The Wizard of Oz"?

Adya: Oh, a love of the Jesus story, 
as I said.

Like so many people, [it] totally captured my imagination.

It's really the founding story, 
or mythic story,

I think it still dominates our 
culture, even though,

Christianity as a whole 
doesn't dominate

but still, you just feel 
it everywhere in the culture.

it was something that
totally captured my imagination.

I was taken by, when 
I was a kid, the "magical" quality,

more than anything - 
it really connected

me to the magic, I would think, 
of Existence.

And even for me, every 
Christmas would roll around,

and about 2 months before Christmas
I thought,

I always felt I would enter 
into this different domain.

Almost like a...into a 
Harry Potter movie.

But it would just start...
you know what I mean?

And it would bring me in this 
place that felt

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