Guru meditation

Following my tradition of taking weird courses, I took a meditation course last weekend, and for the first time ever I actually had a feeling that I was meditating rather than just sitting with my eyes closed. So I’m going to meditate twice daily for a time, just to see how it works for me.

Pop quiz: Which popular home computer signalled system crashes with the error message “Guru meditation”?

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2 responses to “Guru meditation”

  1. tveskov Avatar
    tveskov

    Easy; Commodore Amiga.

    The legend says it was choses because the OOM chant is sometimes part of meditation. In this case OOM is Out Of Memory.

  2. askyle Avatar
    askyle

    http://info.astrian.net/jargon/
    has another theory on the subject, search for "Guru Meditation"

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