…meditation retreat joke.
There's this person, he’s been on a meditation retreat for nine days.
And you do actually find that people do actually slow down.
You walk very slowly, you talk very slowly.
Can you get much more mindful even picking things up?
You pick it up and you notice all these amazing sensations
when you pick things up or you put it down again.
You do things very slowly.
So after the nine day retreat fella went back to work,
and he was working in Perth Zoo.
And so when the head keeper saw him,
you know, coming to work walking very slowly
and mindfully, he thought ‘’What am I going to do with this guy today?’’.
And so he thought he had this brilliant idea.
He said ‘’I know! I'm gonna put you in charge of the tortoise enclosure.’’
(laughter)
Obviously because tortoises go really slowly.
So if you’ve been on a meditation retreat,
if you're working at a zoo that's the best thing to do,
you know – look after the tortoises.
So he told the head keeper ‘’Yes. I. Will. Look. After. The. Tortoises.’’.
And he walked very slowly and mindfully to the tortoise enclosure
And at lunch time the head keeper decided to check up on him.
And there he was, in front of the tortoise enclosure, with the gate open
and all the tortoises had escaped.
(laughter)
When the head keeper asked “What happened??”
‘’Well.’’ said the meditator, ‘’I. Opened. The. Gate. And. Whoosh!”.
(laughter)
That's an old meditation teacher’s joke.
(laughter)
Because when you really go slow even tortoises whoosh!
(laughter)
So anyway…