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Becoming Happy

Stuart Perrinwww.stuartperrin.com
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

Dropping Heaviness

Says Stuart: "You're going to have to work against heaviness the rest of your life. I have that. Everyone in this room has that. We don't walk around like twinkle-toes'..."

Mar 24, 20123 min

Your Best Friend

Says Stuart: "You have to accept the things that are wonderful about you, the limitations, you have to forgive yourself. The only person you live with 24 hours a day is you...."

Mar 24, 20124 min

What You Know Is Your Limitation

Says Stuart: "What you know is your limitation. What you don't know is going to get you your spiritual life. You can't open to what you don't know, the unconscious, to that endless energy, if you're full of what you know...."

Mar 24, 20122 min

Time

Says Stuart: "Time is an illusion if it is your enemy. Time is your best friend and will get you there if you know how to use it consciously. You don't waste it. Understand?...."

Mar 24, 20121 min

The Guru Is Life

Says Stuart: "I remember when Rudi told me this, he didn't say it in these words, he said if anyone ever asks you who the teacher is, the guru is life. Of the 100 million things I heard from Rudi, that always stayed in my head...."

Mar 24, 20125 min

The Chattering Mind

Says Stuart: "The mind is a surgical instrument. If you use it properly it really gives life. If you allow it to do it's thing it eats you alive. So in class, your responsibility is to focus your attention in the 3rd chakra...."

Mar 24, 20122 min

Saying No

Says Stuart: "Nobody has the right to dump their garbage on anybody else. How far do you take that? It depends on who's doing it. If it happens to be your mother or father or your children, you have to take it for the rest of your life...."

Mar 24, 20125 min

Not Looking For Students

Says Stuart: "I'm not a young man any more, I'm not 30 or 40 years old, but one of the things I'm doing is trying to reestablish this meditation practice, trying to develop it, to build it again on a much more mature level...."

Mar 24, 201211 min

Forgive Them

Says Stuart: "There is a great thing in the Bible: 'Forgive them, they know not what they do.' Conscious people don't do things like that. Conscious people don't hurt other people...."

Mar 24, 20122 min

Every Second Is A Form Of Meditation

Says Stuart: "Every single moment of life is precious. It's a miracle. Once consciousness is expanded and opened you begin to realize this. And we never take anything or anyone for granted..."

Mar 24, 20125 min

Embodying Chi

Says Stuart: "Kundalini is essential if you want a spiritual life. That's why I build this chi, that's what the whole class revolves around, is building foundation..."

Mar 24, 20126 min

Contributing

Says Stuart: "Your reponsibility is to come to the meditation classes, come to retreats, and use the energy in these situations to build a chakra system that is strong enough to where you can contribute enormously..."

Mar 24, 20125 min

Being A Vessel For Higher Energy

Says Stuart: "It was a question that Ramana Maharshi used to ask, when his students and disciples would come he would just say to them "ask yourself who you are'..."

Mar 24, 20126 min

Being Vulnerable

Says Stuart: "The problem is that people spend half their lives building walls around themselves because they're afraid to be vulnerable. 'I don't want to get hurt'..."

Sep 25, 20115 min

Fastest Way To God

Says Stuart: "You'll never get free of suffering, not in this life. You'll get to where you can manage it. You'll get to where you can deal with it, and transform it..."

Sep 25, 20113 min

Forgiveness & The Nobility Of Soul

Says Stuart: "There's no relationship in your life where you're going to have where you're not going to get hurt. If you want to be in that relationship you have to forgive that person, and that's unconditional love..."

Sep 25, 20119 min

Have, And Be Free

Says Stuart: "Detachment is an important part of any spiritual practice. I would say that most of the problems we have is because of all the attachments we have in life..."

Sep 25, 20114 min

Impatient Patience

Says Stuart: "So meditation, the first thing it teaches is patience. When you begin to realize you are up against all that mystery and and yourself it's a constant unfolding of consciousness..."

Sep 25, 20116 min

Know Thyself?

Says Stuart: "We have incredible tendency to blame everyone for what's wrong with us, not ever accepting full responsibility that we are the problem...."

Sep 25, 20113 min

Letting Go Is Like Giving Birth

Says Stuart: "The desire for anything means you have to move forward. You really have to free yourself of the things that are keeping you from getting there..."

Sep 25, 20112 min

Living In The Present

Says Stuart: "The moment you behin to consciously live your life in the present you've really have let go of the whole fantasy-world of living, all the maya. It just vanishes..."

Sep 25, 20112 min

Living Within Your Means

Says Stuart: "People today don't live within their means in any way. They spiritually don't live within their means, they don't energy-wise live within their means..."

Sep 25, 20115 min

Right-Wrong

Says Stuart: "If you quiet the mind you suddenly eliminate right and wrong. You suddenly stop judging the world. You suddenly can look at the world and you see harmony and balance..."

Sep 25, 20112 min

Developing Inner Gifts

Says Stuart: "Rudi was born highly gifted. At 6 years old Rudi would see Tibetan lamas sit in the palms of his hand, he was being taught and trained by them at 6..."

Aug 24, 20113 min

From The Red Sea To The Desert

Says Stuart: "You have to take what you get here and take it into the rest of your life. Like I say, this is the gym, the place where you come to work out...."

Aug 24, 20115 min

Frustration & Patience

Says Stuart: "Frustration is just a waste of energy. Use the same energy of frustration to take your work a little bit deeper. And understand you've got to have patience...."

Aug 24, 20115 min

Getting All The Chakras Open

Says Stuart: "Sometimes the more intelligent you are the worse it is. There are people with extreme intelligence who can spend their entire lives figuring everything out..."

Aug 24, 20112 min

Going 15 Rounds With Life

Says Stuart: "How many people trust life? Most people are at war with life. They're angry, they're upset, life has given them a raw deal, or they're beating life up and extracting from life what they think is their just due..."

Aug 24, 20112 min

Gotta Keep Growing

Says Stuart: "If I stop growing, there's no sense in you sitting here with me. That's the job of any teacher worth his orange tee-shirt. You gotta keep growing!..."

Aug 24, 20116 min

Infrastructure

Says Stuart: "A human being has a spiritual life. We aren't human if the chakras aren't open, developed, and working properly. If the heart is closed, there is nothing human that comes through us..."

Aug 24, 20115 min
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