Mark Griffin

Mark Griffin may refer to:

Mark Griffin (spiritual teacher)

Mark Griffin is an American spiritual teacher in the lineage of Bhagawan Nityananda. Griffin is an author and authority on the philosophy and practice of Yoga Tantra. He emphasizes spiritual practice (sadhana), especially meditation. He is the founder and director of Hard Light Center of Awakening, a Los Angeles-based spiritual school that offers intensive training in meditation and other practical techniques of Enlightenment. He is also an artist.

Biography

Born Mark Edson Griffin, son of engineer Jack Griffin and Barbara Griffin. Griffin attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1976 to 1979, and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and has made art continuously ever since. In 1976, at the age of 21 he met his Guru, Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa, the disciple of Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri.

He spent 7 years studying meditation with Muktananda, mostly in his Oakland Ashram, in California. He subsequently spent 6 years studying meditation with Kalu Rinpoche.

Mark Griffin (politician)

Mark Griffin (born 19 October 1985) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the Central Scotland region. He is the youngest person ever to be elected to the Scottish Parliament.

In May 2012, he was appointed the Scottish Labour Spokesman for Sport. He held the role until July 2013, when he become Shadow Minister for Transport and Veterans. When Jim Murphy was elected Scottish Labour Party leader in December 2014, Mark was appointed as Shadow Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland's Languages, covering school education, qualifications, science, HM Inspectorate of Education, the Scottish Qualifications Authority and languages.

Mark Griffin was also a North Lanarkshire Councillor from 2008 until 2012.

Upon his election at the age of 25, he became not only the youngest MSP of the 2011-2016 Scottish Parliament, but the youngest in its history.

He sits on the Scottish Parliament's Education and Culture Committee and is a member of a number of Cross-Party Parliamentary Groups, including the Cross Party Groups on Deafness, Sport and Industrial Communities.