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Can there be rare effects of contemplation?
"Better be alone than in bad company"
Quite startling evidence
Who is troll, Claus or master expert today? T
In Sum

That "A thing well done is done forever" is just not true.

Can There Be Rare Effects of Contemplation?

Transcendental Meditation (TM) is the most tested meditation method.

Up in the air

The photo is also on this address. A university in Fairfield, Iowa teaches persons methods that involve or aim at "hopping" or "soaring" like these.

Mind Diving

Diving inside your mind is a figurative expression. It stand for the same as deep meditation.

Complications Too

A complicating factor for divers (contemplatives) outside the church is that the endeavours of some seem monopolised and lorded over by bosses with big mouths. They take to great-looking terms that hardly help and can do havoc. Some people get sidetracked from it, others apparently deranged, and not every victimised person can be helped.
Risking your neck may not be so wise.
Some masters are nasty, as judged from surfaced evidence. In the light of this, sound and careful and polite enough beginner suspicion should not harm too much in the long term - after all, soundness-helping and meticulous ways of science are rooted in suspicions that are handled well according to the "formulas of science" - it may be called hypothesis making with follow-ups".
Besides, if we learn to stay prepared for the worst, we may become handy enough to route out nastiness that otherwise could crop up easily as time passes by. On top of and well aligned with this outlook some learn to master life better.

Better Be Alone Than in Bad Company, Presumably

An old fairy tale to think of is here: LINK.

Sex, Drugs and the Rolling Stones

An interview with the guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. Asked by a TV reporter to comment that the Rolling Stones had become family entertainment these days, he mused,
"It was we who invented sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. And if you believe that, you will believe everything."

Do Not Believe the Great Assertion That Makes You Flounder

Once Maharishi fought for this: "All disease stems from stress in the nervous system. TM removes that. Nothing else is needed (etc.)" Ideally. However, the growth of his movement shows that some other things help too, such as education, good yoga postures, fit buildings to live in, and further.
Regular TM (Transcendental Meditation) can alleviate much stress and results of stress in the course of time. One also needs to take care of the fare and seek to remove unpleasantness, including alarming stressors, in the environment. That could be good.
Stress presents us with problems to tackle, and stress may bring on disease and untimely death. If you are fond of solving problems and the like, it could work well to marry - but be aware that to most persons getting married brings with it stress. Among the fourteen worst stressors in an average Joe's or Jill's life, up to eleven stem from having got married, as can be seen from the Holmes and Rahe rating scale. The top fifteen stressors are given these ratings:

Death of a spouse 100
Divorce 73
Marital separation 65
Imprisonment 63
Death of a close family member 63
Personal injury or illness 53
Marriage 50
Dismissal from work 47
Marital reconciliation 45
Retirement 45
Change in health of family member 44
Pregnancy 40
Sexual difficulties 39
Gain a new family member 39
Business readjustment 39

Now the scale does not discern between good spouses and mean ones, between death of a lousy spouse and a noble one, and so on. A happy marriage is great. To be dismissed from injurious work is great too, even though it is ranked as it is. In other words, the scale is not perfect, but nontheness gives some interesting indications.
The scale averages have been found to predict diseases: If you score 300 and over, you are at risk of illness. A score between 150 and 200 gives only a moderate risk (reduced by 30%), and a score less than 150 has only a slight risk of illness. There are 26 more stressors in the scale than the top fourteen shown here.
Holmes and Rahe examined the medical records of 5000 patients that had recently suffered illnesses. They then asked the patients whether they had experienced any life events preceeding the illness. Patients were then asked to rate the events with a score. It was found that many had suffered major life events preceeding their illness. The scale created does not allow for individual differences; people perceive and react to life events differently. The scale creates a simple way of rating the amount of stress, though, and how likely one is to suffer illness.
To make your marriage top delightful is much to go for. Maybe a good problem solver wants to lay part of the foundation for future happiness in time well spent with a congenial mate and building a superb home life together. The challenge is reflected in statistics too. For example two out of three Swedish marriages break, and more than 70 percent of the marriages in Oklahoma.
A modified scale has been developed for non-adults. Stress points for life events in the past year are added and compared to the rough estimate of how stress affects health. The top 10 out of 39 are:

Getting married 101
Unwed pregnancy 92
Death of parent 87
Acquiring a visible deformity 81
Divorce of parents 77
Fathering an unwed pregnancy 77
Becoming involved with drugs or alcohol 76
Jail sentence of parent for over one year 75
Marital separation of parents 69
Death of a brother or sister 68

"Entering a cult" is not a category on the list, but may involve "Change in acceptance by peers (67 points), getting a "Serious illness requiring hospitalisation" (58 points), and some more stressors, like "Arguing with parents", "Isolation from parents", both of them not on the non-adult list either.

Balancing Work and Contemplation Could Lead On And Up

This approach is much recommended. Most people have to balance sleep and activity. If meditation is included too, there is one more old activity in the balance of combined progress.
Then there are particular circumstances that need to be overcome - To overcome a strangling solitude and isolation tha enervates, you could have to be vile, nasty, infamous - more or less or something like that. Thus, stress can also be a great servant - a needed reaction to inconveniences in the environment, or to having mates that love to tickle you over and over.
What good delving (meditation) may do, is to make you recuperate from some of the nerve-battering fruits (results or consequences), but if you expect to become perfect through meditation, it may be an impossible road if skilled work is a part of your perfection too. Krishna works too, to set an example, the teaching poem Bhagavad Gita holds. Living depends of lots of careful balance works on your part, is the loose bet.
There are times a man can do nothing better than to play out the good cards he has got on his hand, as in poker. And most important, a good fare is had only if we deal with things (elements) as they are. Often we have to look through the veneer to cope better. Look below.

Better be alone than in bad company. (British proverb)
What can you do among masks in a net of hearsay and untruth?

Shame the devil and look ahead

To flounder is easy, to steer well is the needed thing.

The esteem and reverence great cheaters may get, could be on the increase. But even if narcissists (outright self-lovers) love great words, great assurances and majestic-looking promises, let hard reality have its last say - test them on that proof-rock.
By the way, thinking over one's inner beliefs is hard and stressful. It can be be severe - really tough.
To flounder is easy, but to keep one's assertiveness, realism and sense of balances intact is much and feels marring if the problematic stressors from infiltrators and their propaganda become too hard or too many or both. Then many a nervous system in a duped flock has its break-down. If so, who or what brought it about? We may guess and assort inside a huge loom: It could be one or more of such factors as:

Heredity,
individual inner make-up,
lack of helpers and friends,
adaptation plots,
estrangements,
snares,
isolatedness of the general urban life-style,
career-hungry rat-races

- and and much else tend to go together to bring it about.
"If a strand in the carpet breaks, it may not be the fault of the string; the whole carpet might have been woven to become too tight, or askew." - In the same light an initially sane mind that gets a break-down instead of plodding along with conform flock is perhaps be the sanest if over-all conditions are inhuman, not only insensible. The Scottish psychiatrist Ronald Laing (bless him) is into that part of the "game" in the exploiting West.
People of influence should not make over-bold and exaggerated statements. Better be fair in the light of "Every shoe fits not every foot." [Dp 62].

Not thought to Be Perfect, but Very Helpful for Old Persons Anyhow

Garlic does not promise much at all, but has a good influence on the arteries according to medical science. You can improve your odds of survival by adding it to the customary diet.

Garlic makes a man wink, drink, and stink. [for man's good, that is] [Dp 73]

Be Not Outsmarted

To be a man is often equal to make it in unbribed manner. Both smart submission and seduction may cost as time goes by.
If you get interested in a movement, investigate discreetly about it if you can. It may pay, and is far easier to do than getting stuck. If you have to pledge things you do not understand and won't understand either, something is wrong. If there is an old master-submissive ritual, beware. It may take part of your freedom. There may be many other reasons to be aware too.

Quite Startling

Kind Diving Should Pay For Yourself In The Long Run

Not all who learn to meditate, keep it up. That is largely their own business.
Some who meditate, get surrounded by adverse influences, bossing, depleting environment, bad company, wrong living, and so on. Then the health-restoring effects of good meditation may get less than desired.
The reasonable thing to do is to increase the odds for survival and success in life, and do it well. Meditation helps, and Transcendental Meditation appears to be far superior among the well known methods, at least in Europe.
Good master backs up cool efforts to minimise jams and increase favourable outputs and good outcomes. It should be like that. Judged from presentations come our way, Lahiri Baba (1828 and 1896 and so on) is that way.
Why is not everyone that is called Yogi-Christ in Bramble Garden (SRF) like a father or helper, listening to his sons and daughters in no mean way? Who do backed up disciples of him stand up as know-alls like little children in much too large shoes? Maybe you can find out what is behind institutionalised arrogance and lassitude that harms children instead of helping them. Lots of individual waves of the ocean help themselves. Once started, such missions may last for a long time.
We have to look deeper than the surface to avoid wrong conclusions or shallow doctrine. A fair study tries to see things developing, see how things possibly interrelate, and much else. Some problems may be due to a self-rinsing process. And other "problems" are due to faulty and defective research, which can mar.
Your family may not like it if you take up a decent and solid meditation method, like TM. Prejudices and people being largely uninformed may give big problems. The Hindu culture elements may not be very bad in themselves, only alien and ridiculous, and that easily makes the accommodation suffer in tender, formative persons.
A third major problem as I know it, is the harsh demands that may set in for insiders or master vassals. Hinduisation is a big price to pay for learning how to delve inside yourself, free from demagogy, narcissistic propaganda and too big claims.
A fourth major problem has to do with assets. You should keep them to yourself and reserve the best for your family, no matter what the master says, and much power may drop away from him.
Advanced counsel could save you.
Cater enough to your personal freedom. it is a big asset and hard to come by.

Who Is Troll or Master Expert Today?

Handling brambles

A fellow is not all right if he swindles much. But strive to tone down thundering outbursts if you can as you go for gathering evidence so as to reduce mishap, perhaps. Still, one who exposes offences and swindles, may get an awful lot of troubles anyhow.
It is far from the best a man can do to let the advantages of life and work evaporate due to being just and fair either. Let that be a challenge to tackle very soon.

To tone down thundering outburst is attuned to "look and consider before you leap" so as to lessen mishap

To enter the little endearing movement can be rather dangerous, and even ruining to many.

Alarming trolls . . .

ONCE A VILLAGE was very scared of a sorcerer, a troll. He looked ugly and scaring. But a wise man among them said:
"This troll is not the worst there is, he is not much to be feared. Fear instead the trolls that seem lovely and make you love them. They are dangerous trolls."

Trolls are heartless, and some make their victims weep.

Toned down

A million persons have learnt TM in the USA, and the last world-wide estimate is 6 millions. Many have been helped by TM, statistics show. I think I can recommend TM. [Link]
PICT

The master is not all right if he swindles much

You could translate "tendentious marihashi" into "Little Claus" by pointing at more and better than remote, semantic roots in India: maha, great, rishi, seer, thus "great seer". Indian master can also represent boss. Maybe "Holy Claus" can encompass it all for us, due to the figurative features inside a good folk tale.
If a master that stands up is a troll in disguise is not for me to say here. Idries Shah (bless him) has told of how the best trolls are: You hardly ferret them out till it is too late.
In Nordic folklore the lesson is much similar: Only the individual - figuratively represented as the Ashlad - can detect a troll in time and counteract it.
The jovial-looking Indian took heart and called himself maharishi. He liked it. I did not take offence, but I resented insistence on foolish doctrine, such as "All troubles are due to stress in the nervous system". it is not like that. Very many troubles stem from outside, from uncongenial surroundings, troublesome neighbours and a lot others. What good diving can do in harsh environment, can be likened to first-aid. Preventive measures can and should be taken to offset offences. (4)
Do not like demagogy-butcher-masters; young, inexperienced guys have to be politely informed in advance.
I find that the things to study can take on an amusing tone if you learn to render halfway poetic, by frisk, fit elements that follow from folklore. I grant the terms had better be much grounded, and reasonably fair. Otherwise the advantages evaporate, in my opinion.
The stuff I present varies, but certain parts get a ring of folklore and poetry, as I have methodically gone for it. I have tried to lift and lift certain tall expressions into figures or fresh simile-sounding presentations.

Fit education is good for something and often neglected a lot

The gist of my endeavour is to go for something more and better than "dynamic equivalence" or terms and expressions, which is what most good bible translators strive for. (¤Trap) (6)
I find that it does good to peel off the master jargon to escape his world-guessing games a bit easier. A master is a teacher. Gurus like to inform us that the word also refers to divine teachers, divine experts in pedagogy. It may not be sound education that significant master perverts stand for, anyhow.
Leaving the politeness that serves the pirating masters aside, maybe we should make a point of the figurative help inside "troll". You can set in "troll" instead of "Little Claus", or just "Claus". I recommend "Claus, for then you have not demasked anything - you might mean Santa Claus or Little Claus - but hardly Big Claus.
I replace the terms by homelike ones if I can, to explore a grossly neglected field. It needs expertise. It reaches into the domain of Western education these days.

Summary

To tone down thundering outburst is attuned to "look and consider before you leap" so as to lessen mishap.
The master is not all right if he swindles much.
Fit education is good for something and often much neglected.

Thundering outbursts can do harm if they go against a decent education and job. So refrain to the degree you can and find vicarious outlets too.

Try to say amiable and gallant things

When he was 97, Fontenelle* at a dinner reception, said many amiable and gallant things to an attractive young lady, and later passed before her without seeing her, to place himself at table.
"See," said the lady, "how I ought to value your gallantries, you pass without looking at me."
"Madam," replied the old man, "if I had looked at you I could not have passed."

Outbursts did not exactly help the education that was needed

Another day late in life, he gallantly but foolishly tried to retrieve a fan that a young woman had dropped.
"Oh," he cried, as she rushed to his aid, "if only I were eighty again!"

Last Words

One version of his last words: "It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are."

* Bernard de Fontenelle (1657-1757), French writer, moralist, and philosopher.

In Sum

On the Outlook for Sound Wisdom to Make Someone Happy

- for example yourself; you're someone too -

Going for sound wisdom from whatever quarters, delight to know that the Vatican permits us to seek God's wisdom in other religions. Jean Calvin did it long before that, he went to Plato, evidently. He founded Calvinism and aided citizens of Geneva in his days (in the 1500s) ¤Omo.
True wisdom can be better than words. The wisdom that is made use of, put into practice and bears good fruit for the right persons, is the wisdom that you should become proficient in, and go for.

The sum of wisdom of old traditions is inside their cosmology, yes, their best astrology, concludes Carl Gustav Jung. it is fair to say it.
Good adaptations need wisdom at their roots. (2)
And some Gentiles claim that you can puff and puff and in the end become a god-man or master. Divine comes in addition, then, by the yogic art of self-effort, not transcendental grace.
The wisdom is in the culture, the tact, the customs, the ways of doing things and combating croaking experts that did not favour their countrymen. (3)
Inside scientific disciplines much handling wisdom is had by paradigm parts - the roots of the trees. (5)
True wisdom can be regularly found inside the best proverbs. I should say British proverbs are fit very often, and the proverb that comes to mind is: "too much of a good thing is a bad thing". This is against overdoing it.

"It Is Better to Laugh Than to Cry Your Eyes Out."

Little can a long tongue lein ["lein" means conceal] (Proverb)

Growling kid: "Better an egg in peace than an ox in war." (British proverb)

The best remedy against an ill man, is much ground between (British proverb)
Putting feathers on a buzzard does not make it an eagle [cf. Ap 492]
Man is the only being on earth that can be skinned twice, or so it seems. Do not succumb.
Fools sometimes build great castles and enterprises for 'ogres'. It sometimes happens.
A good name to a big puddle does not make it a lake. (New)

Adjoined

Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1975.
Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1958.

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