Buddha at the Gas Pump TV/YouTube Show

[Guest guest]

My Radio/TV show idea has changed a bit, but is finally getting underway:

I am starting a TV show on which I'll interview people who have undergone a

spiritual awakening. There are many such people in my town, because

Fairfield is a vanguard in a global awakening which is well underway. My

initial idea was to have this be a radio show on our local low-power FM

station, but now I'm doing it as a TV show on FPAC - The Fairfield Public

Access Channel - and putting the videos on YouTube as well.

If this interests you, here are your options:

.. You can watch archived interviews at

http://www.youtube.com/user/buddhaatthegaspump. A video of the radio show

pilot is already archived there. Audio quality of that one is poor due to

technical difficulties which won't plague future broadcasts, but it's

listenable, and the guests are interesting. If you to that YouTube

channel, YouTube will notify you each week when I upload a new show. I

should be uploading the next one in a day or two.

.. I'm going to create an email list to which I'll occasionally send

special announcements, schedule changes, and other relevant news. Probably

only one or two emails a month. If you'd like to be on that list, just reply

to this email and let me know.

.. If you live in Fairfield and are a Mediacom r, you'll be

able to watch the interviews on Channel 9 and record them to your DVR for

later viewing. Broadcast times will be announced to the email list.

.. I've created a chat group at

BuddhaAtTheGasPump where people can discuss

points brought up on the shows. Please join it if you're interested. I'll

invite show guests to join it too so you may pose questions to them

directly. Here's the chat group description, which will give you a better

idea of what the show is about:

People everywhere are undergoing a shift to a radically different state of

consciousness which is transforming their understanding of themselves and

the world. For some, this shift has been abrupt and dramatic. For others, it

has been so gradual that they may not have realized it has occurred..

Such shifts, or " awakenings, " are not new: Christ spoke of the " Kingdom of

Heaven within, " Buddhists speak of Nirvana, Zen masters of Satori, Hindus of

Moksha, but these traditions generally regard these states as rare and

difficult to attain.

Most people are therefore skeptical of claims of higher states of

consciousness. They find it hard to believe that apparently ordinary friends

and neighbors might be experiencing something extraordinary. Maybe they

expect Enlightenment to look as remarkable on the outside as it is reputed

to be on the inside.

This show will attempt to dispel skepticism and misconceptions by week after

week, allowing otherwise ordinary people to relate their experience of

spiritual awakening. The terminology is tricky, because there are no

universally agreed upon definitions to describe this experience. So please

forgive us if we use some unfamiliar terms. We'll try to clarify our

definitions as we go along.

I hope that after a while, those listening will become convinced, as I am,

that genuine and permanent spiritual awakenings are not just a pipe dream,

but are real and are becoming relatively commonplace. We're not yet able to

make this a call-in show, but this chat group will enable people to pose and

discuss topics brought up on the show. I'll invite guests to join so that

you may chat with them directly.

Rick