
The Election
Today, I'd like to talk about the election.
Thoughts that I'm riffing on, with regard to the Vedic perspective.
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Today, I'd like to talk about the election.

What is baseline happiness I hear you ask?

Hi Friends

If you were lucky enough to be amongst the 120 or so meditators that got to enjoy Guru Purnima with my teacher Thom Knoles last Saturday night in Los Angeles, then you can skip this post but for those that weren't, I thought I would share a little from the night.

In sanskrit, the language of the Veda, gu means remover and ru - means darkness so when they come together to form the word guru, the meaning becomes remover of darkness.

Sometimes, I think we can confuse being spiritual with being serious or more to the point, we can have the idea that to be spiritual means the sacrifice of anything purely "fun" or "leisurely" for a laser sharp focus on only that that's most evolutionary.

Having just come home from a very enjoyable dinner with some of my meditation teacher colleagues, I went to the bathroom and opened a drawer but rather than find what I was looking for, I came across a 200ml bottle of Vidyarthi Amrit I had purchased in India 18 months earlier.

My teacher Thom Knoles once recounted a story involving his teacher Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and it went a little like this.

On the one hand, it makes sense right.

The other day I was chatting to a friend and he was telling me how he feels like his life has been an 8 out of 10 but there’s something that’s stopppng him from getting to 10.