Francis Lucille - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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Francis Lucille is a spiritual teacher of the tradition of Advaita Vedanta (non-duality). He became a disciple of Jean Klein, a French Advaita teacher whom he met in 1975. This was the beginning of a close association that lasted until the death of his friend and spiritual master in 1998. Jean Klein's own guru, "Panditji" Rao, whom he met in India in the nineteen-fifties, was a college professor in Bangalore who taught Sanskrit and belonged to a lineage of traditional Advaita Vedanta teachers. www.francislucille.com.

Interview recorded 10/29/2012

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Francis Lucille
00:02:54 - The Impossibility of Proving Consciousness
00:05:58 - The Belief in Limited Consciousness and its Revolt
00:08:51 - The Search for Truth
00:11:26 - The Reality of Consciousness
00:14:08 - The Reality of Consciousness
00:16:30 - Discrimination between the perceiver and the perceived
00:19:04 - The Journey to Enlightenment
00:21:56 - The Difference Between Intellectual Understanding and Realization
00:24:18 - A Zen Story about Satori
00:27:08 - Establishing Peace and Happiness
00:29:35 - The Journey to the Summit
00:32:00 - The Importance of Physical Proximity in Transmission
00:34:43 - Becoming Addicted and Finding True Nature
00:37:28 - The Natural State of Fulfillment
00:39:43 - Enjoying the Show and Following Your Heart
00:41:20 - The Value of Exemplarity
00:43:40 - The Watershed Moment of Enlightenment
00:46:01 - Incremental Glimpses of Consciousness
00:48:15 - Glimpses of Not-Being
00:50:29 - The Litmus Test for Awakening
00:53:04 - The Three States of Consciousness
00:55:53 - The Unity of God in Sufism
00:59:30 - Expanding Consciousness and Connecting with Others
01:02:07 - The Body Expanded to the Size of the Universe and Contains All Things
01:04:37 - The Surprise of Absolute Happiness
01:06:24 - Recognizing the Love for Truth
01:08:56 - The Miraculous Intelligence in Everything
01:11:24 - The Divine qualities in consciousness
01:13:42 - The Bird Enjoys the Singing
01:15:36 - Gratitude for Donations and Closing Remarks