My favorite Rick and Morty episode is “Tales from the Citadel” or “The Ricklantis Mixup” if you prefer. The entire set up of this world and the socio-economic and political commentary are genius told through the variations of these two characters we’ve grown to love. What really makes this episode next level for me is the introduction of Simple Rick’s Wafers.

If you are reading this and don’t know anything about Rick and Morty, I’m surprised you’re still here, but I appreciate that dedication and will give you a little background. Rick is Morty’s genius grandfather who takes him around on intergalactic adventures. The series is pretty much based around his genius and his ability to essentially teleport using a portal gun making him able to traverse multiple dimensions and realities. As such the Ricks and Mortys of infinite dimensions have often interacted and in this episode we learn about The Citadel, which is essentially a government run by Ricks. There a lot more to it, but for that you’ll have to tune in, or read the wiki page, I guess, but really it’s a great show don’t let the incel, red pill, 4chan types turn you off.

So within this Citadel, is a corporate soulless Willy Wonka type candy company (so basically Nestlé), that makes Simple Rick’s Wafers by playing the happiest moment of “Simple Rick’s” life for him on a loop and using the chemicals (presumably dopamine and oxytocin) secreted from his brain as he realizes how blessed he is to be a father. So he’s comatose and rewatching this one moment of his life on a loop. Who knows where his daughter is? How was he taken? How was this moment capitalized on by other Ricks? The questions are endless.

The tagline of the commercial ends with “Come home to the impossible taste of your own completion. Come home to Simple Rick’s.” This is presented to the audience with great irony of course. In Rick’s world, there is no sense of completeness. His pride, need for control, sense of superiority, etc make it impossible to escape his mind, live in his body and just… be. That’s why another ongoing gag is his alcoholism. Life is unbearable when lived with full presence.

This is all even funnier of course because, we can come home to the taste of our own completion and it doesn’t require a partner or children or anyone at all. All it requires is a willingness to be present. Yeah, I’ll say it. Meditation is a tool for uncovering the very possible taste of your own completion. Because you are already complete. What most of us don’t realize is that inner peace or completion isn’t about finding something outside of us, it’s about diving within.

You’ve heard it before. Whether it’s a hero’s journey tale where the magic was inside you all along or a talk by Eckart Tolle, I’m certain you’ve heard that joy, love, all those wonderful things we crave can only truly come from within. That’s why meditation is such an effective tool to get there. What I love about the concept behind Simple Ricks Wafers is that it so eloquently, directly and precisely hones in on what drives us towards every purchase. It’s why advertising and consumerism have been so successful. Because people are trying to convince you that what they have to offer will make you complete.

It is not lost on me, of course, that I’m doing that as well (along with all other teachers of this ilk). I offer services that help you find that sense of completion. The difference, of course, is that I’m not a product, and what I’m really peddling is your own ability to become conscious, present, and powerful. The goal is not to have you subscribe indefinitely, but to help you develop the skills to get there on your own. To perhaps spread the joy and wisdom you’ve gained in your own right. So what’ll it be? A wafer or a yoga mat? The impossible or the very possible taste of your own completion?