Staying insightful, playful, and alert, by Rohan Gunatillake
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This April Fool’s Day, Rohan embraces the sense of play that exists in all of us, designing a unique meditation to foster a feeling of alertness on this day of pranks. He then invites you to take on the mantle of the wise fool, that all-seeing court jester who upends convention and ensures that we all see the world through a brighter lens.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners, exciting news. The Webby Awards have just announced their list of nominees and |
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| 0:44.0 | Today we have a solo meditation for you, |
| 0:46.0 | based on one of my favorite days of the year, |
| 0:50.0 | which explores the value of learning through playfulness. |
| 0:58.0 | My father's birthday was April the 1st, |
| 1:02.0 | so that day always had a double meaning for me when I was growing up. |
| 1:07.2 | I celebrated the man and father of course, but given that the 1st of April is known as April |
| 1:12.4 | Fool's Day around the world, |
| 1:15.4 | I also loved commemorating the art of the prank. |
| 1:20.5 | Having over the years dug into the history of April Fool's Day, there are many varied accounts claiming to be its origin, which I guess is rather fitting. |
| 1:31.0 | One of my favorites is that back in the 1500s the calendar would change not on January 1st but April 1st. |
| 1:38.0 | And people who hadn't realized it would be called April Fools. |
| 1:42.0 | And in France they'd be called April's Fish, |
| 1:46.1 | and little fish paper all otherwise would be tagged onto their backs without their |
| 1:50.8 | knowing. So that to this day a prank is called a Poisson or Fish |
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