Is Your Heart Open?
Says Stuart: "You want to be at peace with the world? Open your heart. Get your heart open. Feel unconditional love in your heart. Get your heart to where it's not an entangled mess of emotional stuff..."
Aug 24, 2011•4 min
Becoming Happy
Stuart Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda). "Becoming Happy" offers practical guidelines to master ourselves and the inner chaos to attain real and abiding inner happiness in a world of change.
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Episodes
Just Live It
Says Stuart: "There's a thousand petal lotus at the crown, that opens, and then there is a lotus here too. Have you ever seen those buddhist images, lotus within lotus? The lotus is a great symbol..."
Aug 24, 2011•3 min
Living Wisdom & Compassion
Says Stuart: "In the world we live in it is so antithetical to the way people think, behave and act today where they are so used to filling themselves with what they are as human beings..."
Aug 24, 2011•7 min
Preparing For Class
Says Stuart: "I recommend being as relaxed as you can, I recommend doing work before sitting down in the class so that your dropping tension and relaxing and leaving the streets of New York outside..."
Aug 24, 2011•3 min
Psychic Gifts
Says Stuart: "Psychic gifts are gifts. Sometime people are born with them, some develop them. They are no different than the gift of mind and breath..."
Aug 24, 2011•7 min
Purpose Of Sexual Energy
Says Stuart: "Sexual Energy has a real purpose in meditation. It's a very important aspect to meditation. That energy transforms all the lower elements in your life into a spiritual life..."
Aug 24, 2011•6 min
The Fasting Buddha
Says Stuart: "I saw an exhibition yesterday and there was a fasting Buddha in this exhibition. The need to go deep was so great he was ready to give up his entire body...."
Aug 24, 2011•4 min
The Higher Self
Says Stuart: "Your Higher Self is above you,it's below you, it's inside you, it's everywhere. Your Higher Self is your capacity to raise your consciousness to where it's connected to Spirit or God..."
Aug 24, 2011•4 min
Transforming Tension
Says Stuart: "As soon as you step out into the streets of New York you're going to have other people's energy all over you. Your job is to get strong enough to where it doesn't effect you..."
Aug 24, 2011•6 min
Wiring the House
Says Stuart: "You have to like yourself more. You have to get up in the morning and say you are worthy of having the most extraordinary life possible. You can like yourself, you can love yourself, you can live with your heart open..."
Aug 05, 2011•3 min
When the Heart Closes
Says Stuart: "As long as you're on the earth you've got to be cleaning up your messes. So don't feel distraught if your heart closes. We're all human, my heart closes. It's like the oyster and the pearl, you need an irritation to keep you working..."
Aug 05, 2011•2 min
Treasure of the Human Heart
Says Stuart: "I've know a lot of rich people in my life, filthy rich people. And I've never met a happy person amongst any of them. I'm not putting them down, some of them were nice people I use to have dinner with them..."
Aug 05, 2011•5 min
Teacher-Student Relationship
Says Stuart: "A Teacher-Student relationship only works if both of them want to get to God. If one of them is there because they like the teacher or the teacher likes the student, or if there's some sexual thing, or the food's good, a great social life..."
Aug 05, 2011•4 min
Respecting How Others Live
Says Stuart: "It's very smart to use what's given to work on yourself to continue to grow. And never assume that you arrive. Because the second you assume you've arrived you life is really over. You just level off..."
Aug 05, 2011•7 min
Nothing Intimidates You
Says Stuart: "When you have a spiritual life, nothing and no one intimidates you. They don't. You don't care if people think what you're doing is right or wrong. It simply doesn't matter what another person's opinion is of you..."
Aug 05, 2011•5 min
Got It?
Says Stuart: "The energy will never manifest the way you think it is suppose to. It will always come to you in a way that is so totally surprising that you have to defer to it, open to it, let it teach you. The second you go, Aha!, That's It! you've lost it..."
Aug 05, 2011•3 min
Getting Rid of Tension
Says Stuart: "When you build the kind of system that Rudi had you can talk about anything. I use to walk across Manhattan with Rudi every night practically to meditation class. I would meet him in his store and we would walk from 7th Ave. South to 10th St..."
Aug 05, 2011•5 min
Finding Wisdom & Compassion
Says Stuart: "Wisdom is a very generic word. It's something we all need to live with. There are no 2 people who will manifest wisdom in exactly the same way. No 2 people will be channels for that type of energy in a way that are alike..."
Aug 05, 2011•7 min
Don't Evaluate, Transform
Says Stuart: "There are so many things wrong with us who needs it? Instead of evaluating I transform. I bring all the crap in me and bring it into the third chakra, turn it into chi, then draw it through the sexual area and activate Kundalini..."
Aug 05, 2011•2 min
Feeding Off The Energy Of God
Says Stuart: "What we're trying to do is evolve our consciousness to a transcendental level, and that means that we get outside the realms of time and space. We realize that time and space, we're limited to what the mind can comprehend..."
Jul 04, 2011•4 min
Signs Along The Path
Says Stuart: "We use to climb up the mountain to that airplane crash site up near Hunter Mountain, there were little blue markers that would take us up the path. And for some reason the path went right past where the airplane crash was. Well we have thpse little blue markers within ourselves...."
Jul 04, 2011•7 min
Ultimate Goals
Says Stuart: "When you do inner work and you're really working to have a spiritual life, there is no goal. How can there be an ultimate goal when what you're doing is connecting to energy that has no limitation?..."
Jul 04, 2011•4 min
Using The Analytical Mind
Says Stuart: "I think the best use of mind in everyday work is the same use of mind in this meditation class. If you are focused here throughout the day it means what's working for you is chi. It means when you have to deal with people and all their stuff there will be clarity in dealing with them..."
Jul 04, 2011•3 min
Working With Sexual Energy
Says Stuart: "Sexual energy is not Kundalini energy. Sexual energy feeds Kundalini energy when it's used consciously. Sexual energy is the area on a human being where the human begins to transform itself to the spiritual..."
Jul 04, 2011•6 min
About Promiscuity
Says Stuart: "Promiscuity defines itself. A promiscuous person is someone who bounces from bed to bed, and has no commitment inside to loving somebody, but is simply the act of bouncing from bed to bed. I use promiscuity as a metaphor, that we bounce from meditation group to meditation group..."
Jul 04, 2011•6 min
Daily Practice
Says Stuart: "What you are going through, bring it all down into the third chakra. You have to use every experience that happens to you to build balance and more foundation. You have to understand that you are going through a process like this of death and rebirth..."
Jul 04, 2011•7 min
Telling The Truth
Says Stuart, speaking to a student: "When you called up a hundred million years ago, shall I adopt my child and I said yes, would you afraid to call me up? You did it. Look what happened. It saved your life..."
Jul 04, 2011•4 min
The Aum Sound
Says Stuart: "The aum sound is basically the sound of creative energy. It is always there, it is always with us, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When I was a kid I would lie in bed and would hear this high-pitched electronic sound. I would be listening, and where was it coming from?..."
Jul 04, 2011•4 min
The Greatest Romance
Says Stuart: "The way to stop the complaining is to be grateful. You can set through a class where the energy is this strong and it can nurture you, it can feed you, and you can come out of this class like the beginning of a great romance..."
Jul 04, 2011•3 min
The Child Of God
Says Stuart: "There is a child in every human being that has run away from home. Mostly children run away from home because they are unhappy, the environment is lousy, the parent are not happy, they're fighting all the time, a lopt of trouble at home. We have a child that lives in us also..."
Jul 04, 2011•6 min
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