Delighted to be invited to be a guest on 'Buddha at the Gas Pump'. For those of you who are not familiar with the programme, it's a wonderful online resource containing over 600 interviews by host Rick Archer with 'spiritually awakening people' from the well-known to the unknown and from a variety of backgrounds and traditions. You may want to explore some great interviews with the likes of Swami Sarvapriyananda, A.H. Almaas, Adyashanti, Ken Wilber, Bernardo Kastrup and Ruper

The felt sense of Self or Being or 'I Am' are still objects in our awareness, and therefore not who we are. What we are is prior to all of that: not an object, but the ineffable subject. We are not the Ground of Being, but what's left when the ground falls away altogether, the empty awareness of 'just this."

The harsh critic inside your head is a lie and a phantom. It is the inner personification of every external criticism and rebuke, every perceived failure and mistake you have ever known. Its denigration of you knows no bounds and its toxic gift to you is crippling self-doubt and self-loathing. It is a lie and a phantom and it has no business living inside you. When you discover the always present ocean of peace and silence within that is your true nature and you remain there

We are born into the matrix of a conditioning society that slowly moulds us away from ourselves away from our own wild nature away from our Natural State. We are encouraged to give ourselves up to the prevailing norms, even though those norms are largely empty and awash with greed and corruption and violence and war. Some lay claim to their own nature in the secret confines of their heart They play a waiting game feeling for cracks in the fortress of the matrix convinced thei