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The Meditation Retreat

Day five of a silent meditation retreat. Sixty people sitting in perfect stillness. The guru discussing the importance of "letting go" when—BRRRRAP—a barki

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Day five of a silent meditation retreat. Sixty people sitting in perfect stillness. The guru discussing the importance of "letting go" when—BRRRRAP—a barking spider takes the teaching literally.

The guru simply smiled and said, "That, my friends, is the sound of true enlightenment." Most spiritual barking spider moment ever.

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