This is the almost awakened podcast, a no-nonsense approach to spirituality with your hosts,

Brittany Hartley and Bill Reilly.

Here we dive deep into the wisdom traditions, while acknowledging insightful breakthroughs in science,

psychology, and human development.

Our goal is to explore the good life and the very best of spirituality, no nonsense required.

Check us out at almostawaken.org, where you can check out past episodes, make a donation,

email us a question or comment, or find out more about the resources we shared.

And now, today's podcast episode.

All right, and you'll just need to fix that,itt sorry about that i go all right so here we are

another episode of the almost awakened podcast uh britt hartley how are you doing i'm so good bill

how are you good good this live show stuff sometimes there's a little glitch here there but

hey it wouldn't happen at all if you weren't doing the tech.

What's new?

Anything going on?

No, I am just really excited for our guest today.

We were talking a little bit off air about the Dalai Lama and that kind of debacle.

So what was your, tell me what was your kind of initial response and then after reading more,

kind of where you landed with that. Yep. So, and I'd love to get Caroline's thoughts here at some point

in the show as well. But obviously the event. So folks need to, who haven't seen it, the Dalai Lama is

at some thing and this young kid walks up. I'm going to guess the kid was

nine years old, 10 years old, somewhere around there. And the Dalai Lama proceeds to kiss him on the

lips and then stick his tongue out. And he ended up apologizing, but what was supposedly asked was

...