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"Let us cast aside . . . formalities." - Paramahansa Yogananda, in "Reforming Religion by Science". East West 2-6 October 1927 - November 1927. |
The Old Art of . . .
Facets of the old art of getting stately (kingly)
"We could look deeper into the classical, self-undermining movement Tamed Forever,
so as to come better to grips with looming and soaring "forces" and deceit of a sort. Here's
a former insider's groans on "The lost art of handling swindling wolverines in sheep's
clothing".To cope better, also bulwark better. And next you have to grow up - at least you have that option if things run well on an even keel. Fit nicely in to any strained tick tack toe epigram (study) to live out here. Look on each of them as a parable fit for a bridegroom and all can go well. Even Cain had his chance. The tick tack toe parable is a kind of masked thriller - maybe rooted in times, places and persons long ago, but with over-riding influence. Do as well as you can and harvest as much as you can from the many sorts of tales while remembering the British scholar and explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) to your heart's content. Hm
"For thirty years I served Her Majesty at home and abroad without acknowledgment or reward. I publish a pornographic book, and at once earn 10,000 pounds and fame. I begin at last to understand the public and what it wants." There can be Sufi instructions inside
After Sir Richard Burton's death his wife burned all his journals and diaries. She
was afraid that he would be remembered for his scandalous works.Arabian Nights contain many fit tales on how to deal with bad guys and influences, be it fakers, fakirs, djinns or others. Djinns may be looked on as bad angels and have to get trapped; so the story goes. Let natural and frisk development come first. If your innate libido system gets soundly developed, it hardly turns kinky. It should not then look for succour in the clouds, not in wailing for a Giant Mamma as told. Though you suffer father-loss or mother-loss or serious setbacks as a cub, don't invent goddesses from it - or form idols on top of unfulfilled natural urges. In some circles they seem to love to institutionalise severe, misfit-giving god-love neuroses coupled to unsound rigmarole. Stay away from the instituted "cry like a puma cub for the Divine Mom because I say so, and she is sure to come after you are ten". It happens that whims grow unshapely on top of losses. It is to be feared that those who get endorsed such regression plots get hurt. It has shown up - in time it may show up. However, if the hurt runs deep, it is hard to find out. There is no neeed to be freakish and look cute as a grown-up in the wild. It may even feel offensive to animal and experienced meditator. It could be like giving up the sound practice for inferior ballyhoo, or even dross. Further, a misfit-making scoundrel's cry-baby plots run contrary to sound contemplation and concomitant character development as we know it, in that they are "other-focused" and over-focused at that in addition. Sound contemplation is more of a glide deep inside, by letting mental ideas and categories dwindle for a spell. One lets lots of notions lie for the time being. That is how simple it is. Every mountain lion should have a place to contemplate like that or bask in the sun. Note that the over-riding essentials in the art of contemplation have to let holy guru thinking and guru concepts go for the time being, nothing less is to be had and mastered. Be proud for it. You can hardly be stern enough for it. Daya Mata on TemptationIn her book "Only Love" [On] Daya Mata once communicated the same as the following, in essence,If thoughts come and disturb your meditation, it is temptation.She advocates deep contemplation, hence. But how broad is her counsel's applicable range? That could depend a lot. By way of example, figure you were among the people who had the strange experience of attending a Yogananda service at the Golden Lotus Temple in Encinitas right before the temple slid into the ocean. Let us imagine you were sitting in contemplation there and then, and suddenly the guru who led the Easter Morning Service called out: "Hey, all of you, get out of here at this very moment!" Let us say they all ran out, and that the temple slid into the sea a few minutes later. He saved their lives, so that they could sit down and contemplate for hours and decades afterwards, but in disturbing the congregations's contemplation, was the guru allied to the subtle tempter, as Daya Mata seems to tell us? I don't think so! He did the best he could on the nick of time. Let us admit that in this special thought experiment he disturbed, but the purpose was good: To save the men and women attending, from gliding into the bottom of the sea with the temple. The story about the temple that slid into the sea is not wholly invented, by the way. Farewell to Golden Lotus TempleThe lovely temple, built at the bluff's edge in Encinitas (twenty-five miles north of San Diego) in 1937, was lost by landslide in 1942, when it slipped away from its foundations and fell. By then, water draining had softened underlying clay and resulted in shifting earth, which plunged the temple down the cliff.Before the temple fell, fell, fell down the bluff overlooking the ocean, Yogananda was tempted to hold a last Sunday Service there, but refrained, realizing that the weight of all the congregation might cause a major disaster. He realized he and his congregation might all to go down with the temple. So he announced even though the Golden Lotus Temple was still standing, "No meeting for a month." Then, commending the temple to God, Paramhansaji left Encinitas. Building movers [and God] were to take care of it. He told them that if they were late they could do nothing. They came late and saw the temple fall in front of them. It had been the first for-all-religions temple. [Source] LessonsWe normally do well to stay away from non-significant thinking, no matter who the originator is, and his or her status. Yet, that is too hard for some. Here are a few sayings to entertain you:
Yogananda became the head of many nuns, and some of them were of Mormon upbringing. At least three of them became members of the Board of Directors in Self-Realization Fellowship. We might halfway suppose that in some ways - mainly psychological ones - their wants deep inside were carried into the Fellowship, perhaps to flourish later, long after his death and the UN's charter on Human Rights from December 10, 1948. How to deal with many monastics: it hardly pays to intrude. They may want to shut themselves out, too. British proverbs and likeable fables could counter-act unhealthy abandonment of a fulfilling, rewarding personal life. Watch Your Heart's AgendaIt pays to be intrigant or irreverent on some occasions. That is a moral in the Grimm tale The goat and her kids.
Candid archangelAdamant or fair - much suffering is wont to come your way unless you bite!How and when will sweet life come?
If you haven't understood
Let a candid soul express a lot Handling brambles
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