Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.

We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together.

This is the Commune podcast where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live

this healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life.

So I have started writing a weekly Sunday article called commusings,

where I alternately wax poetic and sometimes pathetic around spirituality, philosophy, and culture.

On occasion, I will also record these screeds as bonus episodes for the podcast.

And today, I share with you a piece entitled Eight Minutes 46 Seconds,

which flowed through me in the days after the murder of George Floyd.

Now, in addition to commune's courses on yoga, meditation, and personal development,

we also offer an array of social impact courses, including unwinding prejudice, redefining

leadership, and organize a march. If you are interested in enrolling in any of those course

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commune.com right now I think we can all benefit from learning and growing in order to

better serve our communities my name is Jeff Krasno, and welcome to Commune. Eight minutes, 46 seconds.

It's late Saturday night.

There's a curfew in place here in Los Angeles.

Hours ago, police discharged rubber bullets and pepper spray at protesters on Fairfax, less than two miles from here.

I feel a mix of fury, confusion, guilt, powerlessness, and a rare uncertainty about what to do. I sense I am not

alone. In college, I concentrated in race relations. I remember studying Robert F. Kennedy's

extemporaneous eulogy for Martin Luther King, as he consoled a bereaved crowd in Indianapolis

on the evening of his assassination.

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