Courtesy of https://evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com/2016/08/27/roger-castillo-buddha-at-the-gas-pump-interview/
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Published on Aug 26, 2016
Also see https://batgap.com/roger-castillo/
Here I am, Roger.
From an early age I recall a natural inquisitiveness towards the nature and mechanics of all sorts of things. I was constantly observing and theorizing.
Fortunately, throughout life, the denser and more persistent forms of suffering were not something I was particularly familiar with. Life unfolded quite smoothly on an inner and outer level.
Although there was already a strong spiritual bent, it wasn’t until my late twenties that life introduced the notion of enlightenment and the underlying non-dual nature of life. When this happened all the cells in my body shouted ‘yes’ and there was an unexplainable faith that trusted what had been read. From that point, everything else faded into insignificance next to the quest that had been ignited.
This was the beginning of a wonderful phase which spontaneously…