Mooji - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

[cyberpilgrim1]

The response to Q were amazingly spontanous but surprisingly thoughtful. His next. And next words seems to comming from depths. Response had a humility but also an unmistakeable quality of authority.unmistakeable authority

[Fishpigg]

1.32.41 Brilliant , IF you think your enlightened ,go spend a week with your parents .L.o.l

[nomobius1]

thank you for what you do.

[MrTofur99]

does anyone else laugh whenever mooji laughs? I literally can't help myself, it's like I can feel his happiness or something, crazy

[MrSlimfinger]

0:45:00 - pleasant interview so far! But why focus so much on Mooji's ways with other students? As he makes evident the "prescription" / pointing in the right direction / dialogue is something which unfolds spontaneously in THIS moment - I really can't see the value in discussing "The Process" itself! This seems like another way of intellectualizing and actually conceptualizing(!) it, If there's a true urge for truth, this dialogue should turn more straight-forward, stripped from cleverness :)

[MrSlimfinger]

.. alright you sort of made this point yourself just a minute or two later in the video, interesting to see where it goes from here! I just think more people would benefit from this sincere one-on-one type of dialogue rather than a general discussion on a bunch of topics - with all the angles and viewpoints which normally follows, and often just gets in the way of that which we're all reaching for. Hope you took my previous comment the right way since it wasn't meant as bad critic in any way! :)

[andthereisntone]

Deeply inspiring. Thanks.

[SimonKarlos0]

Hello Rick Archer and BATGAP, I am Deeply Appreciative for your inspiring interviews! :)

Rick, you are an amazingly Spiritually-sharp interviewer of great Wit, Wisdom and Warmth. I thank you and Mooji for this great interaction. I love you, my brothers, and All. :)

[shodashi108]

Why not equally consider that the "intelligence of nature" is a preprogrammed design? Why attribute the design to god? If god is so benevolent why does he allow such horrendous suffering? Consider the idea that we live in a sophisticated matrix of self-interest & that the only way out is to become REAL LIFE – in the PHYSICAL – not in the mind, not in "consciousness" but actually living practical solutions so that no one lives in subhuman conditions. That would be real spirituality!

[BuddhaAtTheGasPump]

@shodashi108 My view of "God" is that He/She/It is the Totality, including all polarities, perspectives, strata of creation, from real life physical to transcendental.

[shodashi108]

@BuddhaAtTheGasPump what is transcendental?

[searchsummit]

@shodashi108 Unmanifest. In physics terms, the vacuum state. The ground state of the universe. A field of pure potentiality. Many ways to say it.

[YonKat24]

Thank you :) <3

[PaperTreeMusic]

Great interview, thanks!

[Taoistdavid]

Just excellent. Humble, authoritative, warm, amusing and pleasantly biting about those who claim to speak for the universe, some of whom I have watched Rick interview and who have left me never wanting to know them.A very genuine, authentic and likeable person. I hope you get him back, SOON!

[nama022]

Wonderful Rick, thank you. I find that many of your interviews don't "flow" as effortlessly as this one. It seems to me that Mooji's openness and presence carried you both in this wonderful interview.

[Tlblog]

(sorry bout the bad typing there..!)

[Tlblog]

I just wanted to say that this is honestly probably he most enjoyable inteview of Mooji I have ever seen: i've already watched it twice and plan to watch it again in the future. A big thanks to BATGP for the intelligence, openness and heart-centeredness in all of this. Aum.

[BuddhaAtTheGasPump]

@Tlblog Thanks! I appreciate your appreciation. Mooji expressed interest in doing another one some day. So we'll do that!

[fallingleaftaichi]

What a true gentle man. I held off watching this one in case the length and quality of the interview exposed something about Mooji that I would rather not see. Nothing could be further from the truth-Phew! Not only the wisdom which he speaks but also the way he speaks it and the way he simply IS. I enjoyed every second of this discussion, will be watching it over again sometime soon. Thank you to both of you, hope the next discussion happens.

[fortheday123]

Yes I hear you are saying but I still question the need we seem to have to explain everything and box it up--are we doing it for our own comfort or for other people ego. If we were all alone in the desert or forest would the need to describe / box up the color of a tree still be there - the beauty of the tree is beauty. The mind tool creates conflict.

[BuddhaAtTheGasPump]

I think anyone who says "we are God" isn't saying that we as individuals are God, but that we essentially are God, expressing as much of that Divine Intelligence as our individual mind/body allows.

[fortheday123]

I am uncomfortable with the whole we are god thing because I look at the universe and I think shoot I can't even make a good cup of coffee most days. Let alone a snow flake or a universe.

[riccardo1767]

very good! tx mooji. ps rick your arrows always reach the target! (you're a very good archer :))

[osrball]

Great interview, thank you for making and posting it !!! Thank you Mooji !!!

[samara15170]

Happy, Happy Birthday, Mooji!!!!!

I love you!!!!

[PeteStillConcertPics]

Once I accepted that these interviews are really more of the nature of a discussion, I began to really enjoy ..... the questions you ask Rick are very probing at times, which is great, and how it should be; your humility and real interest in the subject comes over well I find. Great! JS

[PeteStillConcertPics]

Hurrah! At last! some talk about life after 'death' ..... great questions and discussion - loved it!

[ronatholl]

i did TM and the siddhis for a few years constantly searching for what i already was, also did the yogic flying course which was basically a rip off , i wish id met mooji earlier still life innit

[anamarie8]

enjoyed listening very much. thank you.(((*)))

[guruu13]

or should i say...here and now....ahhh ya know what i mean lol

[guruu13]

bless you mooji! I'll join you down there soon enough brother :)

[MrPissuyaka]

This guy cannot be awakened....only white people can awaken...

[Velasca]

I wonder what Buddha would do at the gas pump if an aggressive van driver challenged him to a fight.

[scorpionboy3]

Also when talking about God, they are talking about different things, you can tell

[scorpionboy3]

I love the contrast of the background of the two. Moojis background is completely blank and empty, and the interviewers is full of stuff.

[honeybozo]

@scorpionboy3 was wondering why this interview was so annoying and after 29 min there doesn't seem to be enough space - interviewer unfortunately is not listening hard enough. And mind you -truly listening is an effort.

[PaperTreeMusic]

@scorpionboy3 Nice observation.

[fortheday123]

Keep up the laughter. That is one thing that interested me about papaji--we need more of it. You could see in his eyes almost a return to bliss in some of his videos.

[shredheadmelody]

Thank you for these interviews - you seem to pull out the core teaching out of everyone that you interview.

[MicMacGrass1]

'Understanding' math and that 2+2=4, yet still insisting to 'believe' that 2+2=5 is the same as understanding the way to your liberation yet continuously taking the opposite path. You can Know something yet not Realize it.. We can all be Masters of The Obvious and still not 'get it'. Knowing the truth will only set you free if you utilize (realize) it. Wordplay doesn't make anyone look intelligent it merely makes one appear to be hiding one's fears behind words...

[culturacolombia]

19m.44s , They say that after a lie ; ordinary people touch their noses , is that true ?

[culturacolombia]

Is there a button to LIKE humbleness and unlike ego oriented arrogance mechanical mind ???

[SilentAwareness01]

Great interview Rick,one of the best.

[mish63pa]

thank you...a wonderful interview of my Master...Beloved Mooji

[jirkasoust]

Hallo, after seeing the video I would like to point out that Rupert and Mooji are saying the same. Mooji points to the very fact that what we are has no quality. Rupert points to the fact that there is no line, no boundary between this what we are and "outside" world. No boundary = unity. Unity of what was never two. Rupert tryed to show that in the "cup" you never find anything else than "knowing" (not knowing of something). I.e., anything else than you. Good luck, jiri

[roxanneworld11]

Mooji's way of expressing has been very helpful to me these past years. Youtube has been a blessing in this way.The interview here is compelling, interesting + a lot of fun to watch as well..thank you!

[imzaiaTV]

Thank you for this interview and much Love.

Quan Yin

[paulaameri]

Hi-- To me you were both great, great interaction, great questions, lots of fun and happy. Fun! 

[LunaMoonJune]

unfolding daily...flowing where life wishes me to go...finding wonder there daily

[hyejah]

I like listening Mooji's voice. so soothing and unpretentious. His choice of name Moo is so right on which matches his absence of arrogance. Very close to my name Mooja

[eclecticwhyzas]

The Great Way is not difficult
for those who have no preferences.
When love and hate are both absent,
everything becomes clear and undisguised.
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike
is the disease of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things is not understood
the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.

Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.

Seng-Ts’an Hsin Hsin Ming

[ordinarysparrow]

Rick this is truly an outstanding interview....what an authentic, gracious,interaction between Mooji and yourself... I love both of your natural ease... Good stuff all the way around... Thanks for this allowance.

[MellyJuffin]

Been waiting for this one. Mooji is like a big, warm, cuddly teddy bear, reminds me of Teddy Ruxpin the the animated story telling bear - adorable! Its hard not to be in the present moment with the sound of that voice flowing through me. Mmmm!

[iecoie]

@MellyJuffin - He loves muffins and honey too (it´s the source of his godlike sweetness and stickiness too).

And You should see him driving that bike and racing in the circusring .. ringing and doing all the happy stuff with his hat.What a riot! Amazing being, he is... Oh, and aren´t You racist, by the way?

No .. no, You aren´t. You don´t race, do You?

Formulas, bikes, partners? You wouldn´t .. I think - You are not, are You? Fluffy tick.

Cuddly tack.

Time stays on.

O, no. Onow.

You?

Who? :))

[MellyJuffin]

@iecoie Nice poem ;))

[iecoie]

@MellyJuffin - Isn´t it? :)

Allan Edgar Poem should rollaround in his grave like a kitten on a belly tickled so ftly

(liking me softly with his dong ... till the King Domg comes, climbs the state of empire and empirically taken - takes away what´s left - Homogiganticus, ridiculus, erectus ad hominem in excelsis Orant .. Homo or Hetero - beastly Bee st. it is!:)

Melly NOWON to You, dear (while complimenting:) Juffin!

[BuddhaAtTheGasPump]

Please send it! You can email it to rick (at) batgap (dot) com. I'll add it to his bio on the site.

[JackHighlander]

ha! i actually have a photo of mooji @ a gas pump, excitedly pointing @ the word "SELF" @ the top of the pump.

[nanibush14]

@JackHighlander

What a treasure!

[iecoie]

"mumbo-jumbo-voodoo-foolishnes­s"

What a wise selfdescription .. I´m amazed at the level of critical thinking mr. Mooji pulled of there - shining (delirious Jack with an exe at work) mirror at last!

(mumbowords jumboing about nothing except for a beardy doll of vood:))

[rahulnsingh9]

Understanding is the first step. Acting to the understanding leads to realisation. Living the realisation is liberation.

[iecoie]

@rahulnsingh9 - You´ve missed the bull´s eye there and ended up in the areas where the sun rearly shines (and urologist-especially love to mine into)

Don´t You feel like having a shower after that sentence was pulled of?

It´s a beautiful monster with treeheads - all of which are Yours. What a joy this moment deliver such a hysterical goods ... You deserve to be awakened! You, Ramana and Mooji (and around sixteen other people:) But, You does not exist.. what a shame.. what a pity.. what a fac.t

[rahulnsingh9]

@iecoie look at your self before you look at others! Simple!

[iecoie]

@rahulnsingh9 - It was a time like now others .. When the thought of an Eye, gathered all of it´s nonexistent powers given this selflimiting though-tlook on it´self (mistaking the "bulb" for that indescribable power relatively understood as sea-ing) and jacked the road to look it´self in the eye.

Bulb stearing in the Bulb - not unerstanding the unreal´character of it´s bulbiness - is a moironic notion.

->

[iecoie]

-> As well as an idea(l) of looking at onself - in any other way than, the looking itself can provide .. without the point.

Looking from the view-point of an eye(bulb) is ridiculous - and non´happening.

Looking happens from the view-pointlessness of a viewing it´self.

There is no point to look at, nor to bee looked from.. There is no difference between subjective and objective - between personal and ultimate -

->

[iecoie]

@rahulnsingh9 - - there are no different points, no in-different points, no-tttwo to ´two´(verb:) in this.

WhenEver I look, therEver I look - tHerever I see.. Mee. (a splendet guy - world´s becomming!:)

So - what You suggest is already the case(ing). Grow up, little lines of a text - with an intelect yet ungrown - grow up and keep me happy. Grow down, the blog of Yours that´s screeming "guruwannabee" - growdown and keep me moistured with happinesss. ->

[iecoie]

@rahulnsingh9 -

Do or don´t - this or that .. I´m as I´m - You are not (other than I´m) ..

You are not (a problem) - are not (a challenge) - are nold.

(no metter the amount of waves produced) :) Reaction-Reaction-Biceps-Fun

[shunyam56]

@iecoie Yes, nothing wrong with you, nothing wrong with life too...Just you have a tendency, so to speak...You talk too much, you presume too much more, and out of that, you make a big mass...And you know, lovely guy from Checa, "One day you won't take the thoughts seriously - and then you won't take them at all." Once you get the message, hang up the phone...Giorgio, Venice, Italy.

[iecoie]

-> I´m certain, that I´m.

The idea of Rick´s existence (on the level, other than this moment provides) is taken into consideration, acted upon (action/reaction), but is not believed in (when thought of a this kind arise).

The existance of You, Ramana, world outside of ´What is´ is a concept.

("made of" this/reality/ & being perfect as such:)

No problems, Nowhere to be found (the tape stuck on repeat:).

.. only "Things" (pleasant, unpleasant) appearing.

Action, reaction happening.

(Or not:)

[iecoie]

:) ´This´ is the world - I´m ´This´ - .. I (already) am as I´m.

No way to improve this.

No harm in an attraction towards pleasant content, no harm in the opposite (creating opposite).

I´m - what is, at (the moment) .. what is (period).

"What(er) is" is (all embracing - This medium included (when/ow/ included).

->

[BuddhaAtTheGasPump]

I'm incapable of assessing another's level of consciousness, especially through a medium such as this, but I think you may be an example of the point I've been making - someone who is mistaking a (partial) understanding for realization. You might be quite pleasantly surprised if you were to suddenly see things through the eyes of a Ramana Maharshi. If all that were needed were the realization that nothing is needed, the whole world would be enlightened.

[iecoie]

-> "the Others" (neo/ns/ or retro/pical/ or wtf:) bothers me, if it´s happening.

No problems with the "sense of bothering arising", no problem with it´s opposite ..

"Understanding is (point.indeed) - Realization is - Liberation (is)".

Only thing required is to live. :)

(the only "thing" needed /for this happening happening/ is realization of "nothing being needed at all":)

[iecoie]

-> We do know nothing about(!) what is .. Appart of the utter(the only one´xisting) certainty of it´s existance .. We believe, we suspect, we try to understand - we do not know, do we?

Talking about a "Rose is limited/defined by the whole of an existence that is (seemingly) "not a Rose" .. Which is an act of severing of "whatis" into an (idiotic if believed-in, harmless if not taken for granted, mistaken for a fact:) "concepts".

->

[iecoie]

-> .. For a concept - You need to express atleast "Two (imaginary) things" and make a(n imaginary distance crossing:) connection between them.

"Rose is a flower", "Rose is not a car", "Rick is simply not grasping the simple things!", etc. :)

Even the statement - "Rose is a Rose" is an un"true one - for we do not truly know what "Rose" (part of whatis) is (or is not).. ->

[iecoie]

´iswhatis´ is not a concept - it´s mere "explanation-marked, capslocked and underlined statement about "it´self" ..

/ Concept states, that "something is not something else" or "something is something else" ..

For an ordinary statement You need to define /at least/one "thing" to be stated (for which "the whole world of other/ness-/ things that the "chosen defined thing is not" - is unnecessary as well). ->

[BuddhaAtTheGasPump]

I agree with you that "Clear understanding is realization" if we mean the same thing by those terms, but I see a lot of people running around with what they think is clear understanding/realization, who in fact, in my view, are merely entertaining an intellectual/intuitive understanding that is a far cry from actual realization, what to say of Liberation. As the Tibetan proverb states, "Do not mistake understanding for realization. Do not mistake realization for Liberation."

[iecoie]

"Understanding is not realization is not liberation" sounds like a nice sentence (sonically:), but is a nonsensical in the view of mine.

Clear understanding is realization - is liberation in it self.

Why not?

.Is what Is.

((is enough))

No need to dwell on separating the inseparable.

Why are You struggling with this so much?

[BuddhaAtTheGasPump]

Of course pointing and statements are concepts. They are concepts which pertain to what is. And those entertaining or employing them may or may not be experiencing that to which the concepts point. Most are not. Not only are hearing and understanding not synonymous. The more critical point is that understanding and experiencing are not synonymous. Many (most) these days mistake understanding for experience, or realization.

[iecoie]

Pointing towards what is is not a concept ..

Statement ´Is-What-Is´ is not a concept. It´s non-conceptual circlical argument saying anything yet/therefore utterly truthful as is.

Tell me what´s to believe about that, what´s to be realized about that?

You might heard concept for decades (as You´ve stated) - yet, hearing and understanding are not synonyms .. Sadly - not knowing the difference between these two (happenings) is clearly taking it´s (toll as well as a) place in (thinking of)Rick.

[BuddhaAtTheGasPump]

Because we're not talking about a concept, but an experience - a living reality. A lot of neo-advaita enthusiasts don't get this. They mistake understanding for realization. I've understood the concept for decades. The full realization is another thing. Liberation yet another.

[iecoie]

almost, almost, almost - nice reaction, isn´t it? :)

[iecoie]

Looking forward to this approach of Yours (strange-full inclination)

"VS" (face to no-face of:) Tony Parsons.

Shall be interesting.

Thanks for the show, nonetheless.

(even though it´s highly-irritating at times - it´s existence is quite appreciated and enjoyed /in/ here)

[iecoie]

Rick, Rick and Rick (all three of Ya!:) ..

why don´t You think (a little - more), before repeating already repeated??

"What about progress.. I think, there is a possibility" - "The guy was say´n - the "Cup is Me"" ..

Please, why are You paraphrasing/while caricaturing/ the message shared with You - not (for the first-ime) trying to get it?

Your resistance/inability/ to grasp the ´simple´ non-dual (non)concept is almost mind-boggling to me.. Funny, almost.

(almost)Fine interview, otherwise.

[MellyJuffin]

@iecoie Instead of picking on Rick, who provides this unbelievably generous service to the world from the exact place he is at right now, turn that mirror around and have a look into it..... what is it that emanates from you out into the world.... maybe that's where your attention would be better focused right now.

[iecoie]

@MellyJuffin - "Picking" stands for "interest (however the "object picked" might object to it) is not absent" + the "Thank You" was expressed (as I recall) + the Rick seems to like the interviewing, me picking or not (or walnut) + Picking is my favourite (almost guilty) p´laisure .. sinfull filling of my spare time, Yes!

Picking up cherries, roses, garbage, pimples and pimpimg buddhas that are gassing too much (beans I believe - makes you guess:) .. Nothing that´s written is personanal(at all:).

[cma1972]

Wonderful interview! Thank you.

[jpyoshi]

Stoner for sure

[bfrankleebold]

Just wonderful. Just wonderful. We want more Mooji!

[shunyam56]

Yes, I have met Mooji without to speak a single word in english...it was some years ago...the best gibberish group in my life...I had a good insight over me: "If you understand, things are as they are; if you do not understand, things are as they are." Hi Rick, hi Mooji!