Viivi Jokela - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview

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Viivi Jokela facilitates awakening in people who are inclined in that way. She had a spontaneous, deep awakening to true nature in 2022, followed by a strange and at times intense acclimation, which she refers to as no self realization or simply the natural state.
Viivi communicates a direct approach to realization, grounded on experiential insight on the aspects of awakening. She invites you to inquire into and recognize the awe-striking immediate, inherently awake radiance of your own being and of all being.
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
00:03:37 - Early Suffering and Alienation
00:07:22 - Finding Yoga in the Hospital
00:10:22 - The Powerful Kundalini Awakening
00:13:16 - The Journey of Purification
00:16:27 - Challenges after Kundalini Awakening
00:19:46 - Recommendation for Kundalini awakening practitioners
00:23:23 - Finding the Right Meditation Practice
00:26:55 - Defining Enlightenment and Liberation
00:30:16 - The Experience of Self
00:33:57 - Multi-Dimensionality of Life
00:37:16 - The Personal and Impersonal within a Larger Wholeness
00:40:18 - The Dance of Relative and Absolute
00:43:30 - Holding Multiple Perspectives Amid Conflicting Views
00:46:24 - Appreciating Different Perspectives
00:49:52 - Understanding the "I got it, I lost it" syndrome
00:53:22 - Extracting Instructions for Awakening
00:56:35 - The Beginner's Mind and Approaching with Curiosity
01:00:16 - Different Types of Meditation
01:03:58 - The Collapse of Fundamental Structures of Reality
01:07:38 - The Teacher and the Experience of Death
01:11:20 - Moments of Transcendence and Nothingness
01:14:34 - The Reality of the Deep Homecoming and Healing Through Realization
01:18:22 - The Disappearance of God
01:21:34 - Kundalini: The Most Powerful Energy
01:24:54 - The Relationship between Trauma and Relational Healing
01:28:34 - Dismissive Attitudes and Lack of Empathy
01:31:58 - The Contradictory Nature of the Experience
01:34:44 - The Importance of Having a Broad Perspective
01:38:40 - Exploring Aggression and Self-Respect
01:42:37 - Closing Remarks and Next Interview Preview