Becoming Happy: Recent Episodes
Stuart Perrin
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.
Says Stuart: "The reality is that if you do this deep meditation that we practice the first stages of it are really healing stages, they are therapeutic stages..."
Says Stuart: "Your need to have a spiritual life is tantamount to every other need. It shouldn't mean you don't have other needs, but its tantamount..."
Says Stuart: "There are two kinds of memory. One of them is what you remember in your head. And that memory does nothing but congest you and clog you up..."
Says Stuart: "I've learned a very interesting thing about all the healing I've done. First, you don't interfere with life coming into the world. And secondly you don't interfere with death..."
Says Stuart: "You can't address [your fears] with having a talk withy them. Just bring them here [in the third chakra]. If you bring your fear here it will dissolve..."
Says Stuart: "If you want a spiritual life it means you are going to have to learn hown to surrender everything. You can't be attached to anything that has to do with the earth..."
Says Stuart: "Being happy doesn't mean your spaced out. Being happy doesn't mean you live like an idiot. Being happy doesn't mean you're naive it just means you can take every day of your life and be grateful for it..."
Says Stuart: "There's one thing in life that's really dangerous. People have a tendency to give and give and give. They do it to such an extent that the giving becomes their detriment..."
Says Stuart: "The only thing missing is our own consciousness. If one really does inner work you build that consciousness. It's not going to happen in two days..."
Says Stuart: "If you need a mantra, don't chant therm out loud out here in class, but if you need something like that, then use it. That's what they're there for..."
Says Stuart: "You're never ready for death unless you've done your life. Nobody is ready to die, unless they have truly done their life on the highest level..."
Says Stuart: "One of the wonderful things that is happening in every one of these retreats that I have been doing in the last few months or so, the teachers are coming..."
Says Stuart: "There is something very important about this work. Often it gets confused in the minds of people exactly what this all about. The work can be in two levels. The first is a therapeutic aspect..."
Says Stuart: "Like should be magical. It should be interesting, it should be new things manifesting all the time for you. I might be a little nuts..."
Says Stuart: "You tap your need inside to be with God, you'll take in volumes of energy. That's a need that no one and nothing will deny. And it will open you..."
Says Stuart: "The Aum sound is very important. The more you open, and the more developed the chakra system is, that sound becomes a part of your everyday consciousness'..."
Says Stuart: "The best part about spiritual work and meditation practice is that it is incomprehensible. And being incomprehensible it forces you to deal with the unknown..."
Says Stuart: "Often I find the biggest blocks are in the heart. And when I find those blocks in somebody's chest or heart I usually put my fingers in the back..."
Says Stuart: "Rudi is right. If you do it mechanically it doesn't work. You get up at 6 in the morning, you have a cup of tea, and you feel grateful for your life. Then you're not doing it mechanically..."
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'..."
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...."
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...."
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?...."
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...."
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...."
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...."
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...."
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...."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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'..."
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'..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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...."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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...."
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...."
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..."
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..."
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!..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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...."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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...."
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?..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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?..."
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..."
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..."
Says Stuart: "It's very healthy to recognize we have impurities and that we're here to work on ourselves to grow. As you grow your chemistry gets more and more refined, deeper, and less involved in your neurosis and anxiety..."
Says Stuart: "I am here to give, that's what I am here to do. I'm like a cow. You've gotta milk the cow. And the more you ask and the deeper you go in yourself, the deeper your need the more it demands that I grow and provide the energy, the shakti..."
Says Stuart: "Compassion is alway about doing for other people. Compassion is the Holy Ghost. It's your communion with life. You communion with anger, your communion with unhappiness. If you commune with life with compassion the language you are speaking is the highest language on the earth..."
Says Stuart: "Patience is a big one. All day long stuff comes at you. If you're not centered, you won't have patience..."
Says Stuart: "The only thing that can hurt you in your life is your lack of trust. Because then you approach everybody with a shield. And you're going to be involved in a fight. First of all you've got to trust yourself. You have to trust your own life..."
Says Stuart: "When you don't try, you die. But there is the intelligent use of trying. When you try consciously, it means you use all the tools you have to open inside in a way where they work. You become a master of yourself..."
Says Stuart: "I promise you there isn't a person in this room, it could be in 10 minutes, it could be this moment, it could be in 3000 lifetimes, that not going to have to make this step towards commitment to a spiritual life..."
Says Stuart: "On the way in here Kris and I were talking about different aspects of, not so much meditation but really wanting to get to God. There is a real difference. Meditation, as I've often said is the gym. But the whoile commitment to having a spiritual life is very different..."
Says Stuart: "Rudi was working on a inner work that would take the consciousness outside of time and space. Advanced work is very simple. You evolve into it. When you've worked long enough o n yourself it becomes organic to your life..."
Says Stuart: "Start with having compassion for yourself, okay? Really accept the fact that you are a really beautiful soul inside yourself. Just accept it...."
Says Stuart: "I have let go of things that were so dep inside me I didn't even know what they were. But one day, I could feel... wow. What happened? I didn't have to know what it was..."
Says Stuart: "You are not going to let go all at once, but you can a step at a time. And don't beat yourself up if you're not perfect. Perfect is insanity. God is perfect. The rest of us are taking a step at a time..."
Says Stuart: "I think the best way to support any other human being is you build your spiritual life. If you build your spiritual life, if you live your life with your heart open, with love, as a happy person they will come to you..."
Says Stuart: "If you're saying a prayer for a person they're going to feel it. The love is going to flow between you and them. The love is going to be expressed differently with every human being..."
Says Stuart: "We've all blown it. Raise your hand if you haven't blown it at least 20 times in the last 4 days. We all makes mistakes, it's part of learning. We grow from that..."
Says Stuart: "There is a thing in meditation called mudra. Mudra is our hand positions you often see in paintings and statues of Buddha, they sit in different positions. You see Christ with his hands... It's all called Mudra..."
Says Stuart: "I'm not here to tell you what to do next. You open and it will come, I promise you.You open in yourself, go deep inside,whatever you're going to do next will come..."
Says Stuart: "The first cycle in a human being is learning how to become human. That's it. That's all you're doing on the first cycle. You are transforming all the things that are keeping you from functioning like a human being into Kundalini..."
Says Stuart: "Take in the energy. Open up. Do your exercise. get cenetered. Don't create a wall between you and what the Universe is trying to give to you. Open up. Let it come in. Trust..."
Says Stuart: Says Stuart: "You need fuel to work against. If we didn't have craziness we wouldn't have anything to work against. We need it. But it's what you do with it. If you're dumping it on people, if you're angry with the world, it's killing you..."
Says Stuart: Most emotions are like quicksand. The highest emotions are love, joy, and being happy, an open heart, sweetness. Your responsibility is to take all the negative emotions and transform them into chi..."
Says Stuart: "It is taking the things that are killing you— all the tension, all the emotion, all the problems you have, and building a chakra system that is strong enough to transform all those things into a spiritual life..."
Says Stuart: "Surrender doesn't mean you become some kind of wimp. Surrender means letting go of all the images of yourself. Then you go up there and say sh*t, I WANT. Here I am an empty vessel, I want my spiritual life!"
Stuart Perrin continues the series on "Becoming Happy II" with the 6th installment— "Igniting Kundalini". Stuart reminds us that the fire that transforms tension is at the base of the spine. And in order to ignite it you have to feed it. I use to have 4 fireplaces up in Woodstock and you had to feed them wood or they burn out. You have to keep feeding the fire. The best fuel to feed the fire is just our tension. Recorded live during a NYC meditation retreat, January, 2011. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 38 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues the series on "Becoming Happy II" with the 5th installment— "Wisdom & Compassion". Stuart reminds us that once you have a spiritual life you don't need religion. You are living at the center of God's creation. You're living with God. Everything is a manifestation of higher energy in the Universe. Recorded live during a NYC meditation retreat, January, 2011. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 38 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues the series on "Becoming Happy II" with the 4th installment— "Commitment". Stuart reminds us that when he met Rudi he had never heard anyone speak about the things that Rudi spoke about. He remembers thinking to himself, 'I don't care what I have to do, I will learn how to do what Rudi teaches.' That was his commitment. Recorded live during a NYC meditation retreat, January, 2011. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 38 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues the series on "Becoming Happy II" with the 3rd installment— "Healthy In Body". Stuart reminds us that there are so many venues in this world to make sure that we stay as healthy as possible. Your body is your temple. in your body the chakras are the altars in the temple. If you have an unhealthy body, all of your energy, all of your life, everything goes into healing yourself. It takes away from the prime purpose of getting to God. Recorded live during a NYC meditation retreat, January, 2011. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 38 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues the series on "Becoming Happy II" with the 2nd installment— "Renewal of Inner Life". Stuart reminds us that Higher Energy of the universe is infinite. It has no limitation. The limitations are what we set on it by the defenses we set up on ourselves, by all the borders and boundaries we create around ourselves, by that thing in us that says "I can't". Recorded live during a NYC meditation retreat, January, 2011. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 38 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin starts the series on "Becoming Happy II" with the 1st installment— "Trusting Intuition". Stuart reminds us that tuning into our intuition is probably the best guide we have to our daily life, because with in intuition is truth. You haven't rationalized it or figured it out, it is hitting you in the gut with the truth. Recorded live during a NYC meditation retreat, January, 2011. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 38 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Says Stuart: "The world around us is our guru. We are given a teacher from the moment we're born. Then you've got to go to some guru, in quotes, in a physical body in order to learn how to open deep enough inside to let life be your teacher..."
Says Stuart: "No matter whom I work with so many of the problems that people have evolve around the heart center. Every time I touch someone between the shoulders they practically bounce across the room..."
Says Stuart: "Generally when a cycle comes to an end there is going to be a lot of chaos inside you. There's going to be a lot of disruption and it's going to affect you deeply..."
Says Stuart: "The only reason that people are not enlightened in this lifetime is that they don't allow themselves to be enlightened. The real battle with becoming One with God is inside every human being..."
Says Stuart: "You're alive for God's sake, you go out in the world and you have a cab driver who's a lunatic, you have this, a person who tries to rip you off. It's life, what are you going to do? It's going to affect you..."
Says Stuart: "I know all these people do these readings based on the Akashic records and what your life is suppose to be, and frankly I would think that whatever you're told your life is suppose to be you better surrender it..."
Says Stuart: "Use that lightness of being, that opening in the heart, that consciousness that you don't have to plow your way through, you don't have to force your way through the situation. It's that refinement of energy that has a lightness about it..."
Says Stuart: "My first experience with kundalini was probably on an LSD trip. When I got finished with it, I said Stuart, unless you learn how to grow and find somebody who can teach you about this, this is going to kill you..."
Says Stuart: "Basically, we're born, we live, we die. We come here, we spend an alloted amount of time that we spend here, and we leave. We're guests. This planet is still here when we go. We come and we go. The terrible thing is, we come, and what a mess we make..."
Says Stuart: "Can I honestly tell you something? If you do this meditation deeply you will let go of so much garbage, you're not even going to know what you're going to let go of. But one day you're going to be walking around with a lightness of being..."
Says Stuart: "Transformation is tantric yoga. That's what tantric yoga is. It has to do with sexual energy, but that's where transformation takes place, in the sexual chakra. And by consciously drawing energy through that chakra you literally are transforming the human level of your life into a spiritual life...."
Says Stuart: "Look, this meditation defies everything. It would put half the therapists and doctors out of business, this meditation, if people would do it with great depth and properly, because it's a shortcut to get to your spiritual enlightenment..."
Says Stuart: "You can never know spirit. How do you know it? it's so far outside human comprehension that the very idea of knowing it is almost an impossibility. You can become, because you evolve to where your whole life is spirit. You know it, you're living it, you become a living manifestation of spiritual energy on the earth..."
Says Stuart: "Yes, it's good to be aware of who you are, your limitations and problems. But at the same time you can work out many of the things that are blocking you inside without knowing what you are getting rid of by just drawing the energy inside, opening up, you can free yourself of a lot of stuff that you don't even know what it is, but it's there..."
Says Stuart: "You want a spiritual life, you've made a commitment on some level to do the most difficult thing there is to do on the earth. There is nothing harder than building a connection in yourself to God or Higher Energy in the Universe..."
Says Stuart: "All spiritual work is about cleaning up all the garbage inside us. And it's a lifetime's work. It's not just a couple of weeks. That's one of the problems with people today, everybody thinks I'll take a meditation class once every two weeks. And the amount of tension and the amount of garbage inside people, and to get rid of all that garbage is a lifetime's work..."
Says Stuart: "One of the difficulties in doing what we practice is that the rationale or reason of it is exactly opposite of whatever we've been taught from the day we were born. The reasoning in this work is that there is no reasoning..."
Says Stuart: "How can you sustain anything in life? You have to be doing it long enough to become a master at it. And this is no different. The way you sustain this kind of energy and keep it in your daily life is by doing it every day, building a system that's capable of sustaining it..."
Says Stuart: "We all have will. And it depends on how you use your will. If you use your will to manipulaye other people, to get rich, power, all that stuff, then it all pours out of you. The substance, the essence of your being poured into maya, illusion..."
Says Stuart: "After meditation one day [Rudi] said 'I'm having a group of people upstairs if you want to come up", and I said 'Yeah!' He hugged me and invited me up to his apartment, and I think I had been studying with him for a month. And I went up there and everyone was sitting, and he was sitting on that chair, and he was sitting there in half-lotus position, and he was tossing shakti at everybody..."
Says Stuart: "The feminine energy is the energy of receiving. It's the energy of the earth. It receives, and then it gives birth, it produces that way..."
Says Stuart: "For whatever reason I have a very innate capacity to let go of just about anything. Except my connection with God. And it works for me. I find that the real nourishment I get in my life comes from the openness in myself to the higher force of energy in the Universe..."
Says Stuart: "The first thing I use my mind for is to open the center of balance in myself, that's the first thing. I know when I'm not centered, there's no balance, it means my mind is not working properly..."
Says Stuart: "What's wrong with women? Love them and understand that once you get involved, you'll have to deal with women. Once they get involved with you, they're going to have to deal with you..."
Says Stuart: "It's your responsibility in practicing this meditation to draw energy through the sexual area. One of the major problems in the evolution of inner consciousness is the congestion in the sexual area..."
Says Stuart: "It's through the exercise of being centered that you can transform all the things that are happening on your physical and psychological into a spiritual life. That's what they are there for. There is always going to be something wrong with you. Don't walk around naive, thinking one day I'm going to be perfect...
Says Stuart: "You can't be a psychic vampire if your heart is open. If you are allowing people's energy to come into you and there's gratitude, how are you a psychic vampire?, all you're doing is helping the people..."
Says Stuart: "There are so many indiscretions in this world, and we're so complicated, we have so many little nooks and crannies that we hide out in you have got to learn, they send you another one to find out that you've been hiding out over here..."
Says Stuart: "Everybody and everything, including your cat and dog, the rug, everything is a manifestation of spiritual energy..."
Says Stuart: "Certainly in a profession like you're in where you work on people— chiropractic, massage, stuff like that— you're going to pick up negative energies. You have a responsibility, first to yourself, which is to take a minute to drop the negative psychic tension..."
Says Stuart: "What's coming out of me now I'm totally aware that I'm being worked. I can't talk like this. I'm being used by the universe to bring this teaching to everyone in this room..."
Says Stuart: "You have to be conscious of the effort you're making to go really deep inside yourself and build a system inside that is strong enough so that you can let go of these things..."
Says Stuart: "You can't mend the wrongs you did to other people. You can't. They've already been done. But you can learn from them. You can grow, you can become more of a human being from them..."
Says Stuart: "You can heal yourself. That's what you are all doing here. You're healing yourself. By healing yourself I don't mean you have a specific disease, but you are learning how to master all the things inside you that will ultimately create disease..."
Says Stuart: "Most will is used in the external world. Most will is used to get the things we think we are suppose to get on the earth, the things we believe are coming to us. Usually it has to do with money and relationships, and power over people. That's usually how we express our will.."
Stuart Perrin continues this 11-part series with the ninth installment— "Loneliness". Says Stuart: "How can you be lonely if you're having a spiritual life? Having a spiritual life, every brief is your friend. You're sitting by yourself home alone, the very fact that you're alive fills you with joy, that you're doing things..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 11-part series with the eighth installment— "Becoming a Teacher". Says Stuart: "In my life I have made a hundred people at least, teachers. I would say at least 90% of them made my life insane. I got so tired of it I stopped making teachers. I found that I would make someone a teacher and all of a sudden I was dealing with this enormous ego of somebody sitting in this chair and they become very important..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 11-part series with the seventh installment— "Using the Double-Breathing Exercise". Says Stuart: "The exercise is just a way of building chakras. Now through the building of chakras you learn how to keep your attention here all the time, so that when things get a little discombobulated in your daily existence you're not in the mind, you're centered..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 11-part series with the sixth installment— "Pathless Path". Says Stuart: "They say in the Tao that the path to God is really no path. And the profundity of this truth is there. It's mind boggling, because if you think about it it will drive you crazy, because everybody is creating paths to God and everybody is creating dogma and their ways of getting to God and their religion, but in truth, the moment you're having a spiritual life, there is no more religion, there's no more path..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 11-part series with the fifth installment— "Difficult People". Says Stuart: "Everybody has the seed of God inside them. Everybody really somewhere inside themselves wants to be a happy person. Your growth should allow you to get to a place to where, when you are dealing with any of these people, you can touch that in them..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 11-part series with the fourth installment— "Being Used By Higher Energy". Says Stuart: Says Stuart: "It's not me doing this work. I don't know how to do this work. I'm being used by a Higher Energy to transmit shakti to people who truly want to receive this energy so they can develop an inner life for themselves, but it has nothing to do with me..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 11-part series with the third installment— "Pain As Part of Life". Says Stuart: "How many times have I said: suffering doesn't go away. Nobody is perfect. As long as you are imperfect, there is going to be difficulty, there is going to be pain..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 11-part series with the second installment— "Learning to Love". Says Stuart: "Why there should be so much resistance, why people are afraid to really trust— to love, to give, to receive unconditionally— is maybe one of the great mysteries of the universe..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin begins this 11-part series with the first installment— "Cycles of Change". Says Stuart: "Everything in life is contingent upon cycles. Where we loose out is when we're not conscious when these cycles begin and end inside ourselves..." Recorded live during the March 2010 New York City Meditation Retreat. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin concludes this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 12th and last installment— "Death and Rebirth". Stuart reminds us that every time we step into the unknown, every time we grown, every time a cycle completes, there is a death and rebirth. If you do this everyday, the fear of passing over to the other side will fall away. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 11th installment— "Transforming Your Life. Stuart says that the less there is of our ego imposing what we think is right or wrong, the more the opportunity there is for the universe to truly guide our life, to live in the moment, and witness genesis on a moment-by-moment basis. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 10th installment— "Difficult Relationships". Stuart says that it is not possible to be in a relationship and not have some sort of struggle going on. That struggle has a singular purpose, and that is to make you stronger inside. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 9th installment— "Closer to Nothingness". Stuart explains that as long as we are full of neuroses, we never have to live a creative life, we can always blame it on the things that are wrong with us. The first step toward our nothingness is letting go of that which no longer serves us. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 8th installment— "Guided by the Universe". Stuart reminds us that if we let go of the anxieties, the thoughts, the opinions to your spiritual life you make room inside yourself for the universe to guide you. And it will provide you with ways of surveying in the world that will be clear, pure, and filled with unconditional love. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 7th installment— "Sustaining the Work". Stuart tells us that spiritual growth is a minute-by-minute, day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year process in order to sustain that connection with God. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 6th installment— "Getting Out of the Way". Stuart speaks about the highest form of marriage between someone who comes to have a spiritual life and someone who can teach them how to do it. For this to happen both of them have to get out of the way to find a sense of nothingness. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 5th installment— "About Reincarnation". Stuart says it doesn't matter whether you believe or not believe in reincarnation. What matters more is to ask yourself the question what are you doing at this moment to develop a system inside that is strong enough to be able to live a life in unconditional surrender to God. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 4th installment— "Breath As A Tool". Stuart explains that shallow breathing feeds the craziness in the head. A conscious breath into the lower (3rd) chakra helps to free us of mindless mental chatter and the chaos of the world. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 3rd installment— "Having Foundation". Stuart explains how you can open your heart when things are difficult by being centered in the foundation of our being. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin continues this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the 2nd installment— "Keeping Your Heart Open". Stuart explains that we can free ourselves of our karma by truly opening our heart, and waking up to the fact that we are living at the center of all God's creation. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).
Stuart Perrin kicks off this 12-part series on "Becoming Happy" with the first installment— "Our Work On Earth". Stuart relates that our work on earth is to master ourselves, the chaos within, everything keeping us from finding a very deep inner happiness. Recorded live during a meditation retreat, February, 2010. Mr. Perrin is a Kundalini yoga teacher of 37 years out of New York City, practicing in the lineage of Rudi (Swami Rudrananda).