I ran into an old high school acquaintance at Christmastime two years ago. An incredible actress and singer in high school, she was now a TV news anchor in the Midwest. She asked me what I was doing, and since my sila (ethics) seemed to be preventing me from lying and I had just been sitting a three-month meditation course, I had to tell her the truth. "Oh how interesting!" she genuinely replied. "Are you going to get a degree in that?"