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Nothing for Neurotics
That old and cultured liberals stand up for well-proved issues in favour of long life, should favour young ones.
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| Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) |
Cults can be very hard to deal with, not unlike ripping your heart out.
Some of these pages are designed for fact-seeking ones.
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What is bold or carved in stone may and
may not be all tendentious. |
Do not be taken in by jargon: Perhaps established values of some "world-forsaking" clans need reassessment, for example in the light of a few potent questions like "Who's winning, and who goes for unfair advantage?" World-forsakers do not really forsake or abandon the world; they chose other modes of living in this world. So, monks and nuns do not really forsake the world, and stay in it till they die. What they do is to build "walls" against others and live like old people, those who can no longer have sex, or have sex only with difficulty. Monks and nuns live in their favoured spots and niches too, if they can.
Note their profiling: false relations is one: "Brother", "sister", "mother" and "father". The fake mother is hardly more ideal than the real one, but maybe titles of this "familiar" kind seem familiar, reassuring, no matter what? It's part of the monky business. Publishing books and asking for donations form central parts of it too, along with boasting in public of the founder of the order - some things like that.
One should seek to bring help to inexperienced ones against being outsmarted. For there is hardly any deep need for being duped and taken in as a youngster.
| Terms like "Bramble Farm" and "Guru Farm" may be understood as many a nastily bombastic cult. |
If our so-called Guru Farm pages initiate thinking, it could be good, for thinking processes can be harnessed in yoga too, and certain puzzles (koans) may or may not be used, just as in good Zen. What is more, budding or growing mental independence may be helped on and up through certain well-prepared and well-timed tales too.
We think you should stay away from cults, that is, for your own good.
Lessons Judged as Diamonds
Diamonds will be polished and can never be mellow enough ...THIS IS AN OLD YOGA SITE: We go against evident and sad effects of "yoga bitching" and also divulge health-serving and otherwise interesting parts of yoga teachings. We do not rule out there is good yoga, there is no need for that, as yoga and meditation has become mainstream in the U.S.A. due to research that has laid bare many helpful effects (fruits).
ADVOCATING FREE AND FAIR STUDY: Our standard way of presenting items goes rather well along with dominant outputs of a dominant Zen roshi (teacher, etc.) who is called Eihei Dogen (1200-53) - and we certainly do not strive to warn by conformity or to all sorts of conformity. See for yourself. [To Dogen-allied stuff: LINK]
GOING AGAINST HOODWINKING: Many are duped. Organizations see to that. There are dangers in these waters. And what is more, not all jewels (good sides to things) are shining. Some seem murky, at least for a while. You may help in polishing them:
ACTIVATING: Feel free to send your comments on what could be remedied. Thanks to all who have helped in improving our site by lots of comments. Feel free to suggest corrections, improvements, and additions to what is already here.
TOO FOND OF SPARKLING WISDOM? We may all do well
to train ourselves in thinking "well-well" - in reserving ourselves a bit. There are
fine ways of doing it, and we teach not a few: [LINK].
Guru Farm Plots and Critique
Free and good thinking is a help, and it hardly goes against fit and decent friendships either. Note that well.
"A bird shouldn't try to surpass itself and fly into the sun; it should descend
to ... where its nest is — If a bird will not come to its nest but flies higher and
higher, it eventually falls into the hunter's net."- I Ching, from hexagram 62. |
What is more, if you have been christened, these things should be tackled, nay, solved in advance to escape the bad conditions that some modern members may be experiencing.
Train yourself in cogent thinking, gain sound and helpful knowledge in handling life by such as adhering to what is called the Adult ego state in Dr. Eric Berne's Transactional Analysis (TA). And welcome to our health-giving, heart-warming, and even soundness-preserving teachings.
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| Literature | SECTION | First Page |
Ak: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1975.
Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Theosophical, 1946. On-line. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html]
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006.
Pa: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971.
Say: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.
[NOTE 1]
CLICK on 'Literature' for the references of about 2000
works.
ANNOTATIONS: Code letters (acronyms and initial words) in square brackets in the text refer to works. Click on 'Literature' to see examples. Page references are put right after code
letters. And the abbreviation cf. means "compare". [MORE].
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REFER: Prefer the standard 'location address' on top of the page(s).
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