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Ascensions

TODAY'S RIGHT CAN PLEASE
A look into impress-me-well teachings and how stupid they could make you.
Pet There are mine-fields of life, and some mines are stupid regulations, where a very servile mind can lead some astray. Accordingly, now and then dare to ask, "House-dogs and other pets, are they fattened victims of men's stupid desires?" How far do they revenge themselves secretly through nervous biting?
Now, not every family dwarfs and maims free enough, natural pet living as bossy superiors either. Still, the active and passive person's established values could benefit from reassessment according to such as, "You may ding [beat] the devil [or dog] into a subordinate, but he that has a wife has a master." (In part a British proverb).
A bird said, "I ascend into the sky from time to time, but how may I know that it is awsome to others? Soaring and flying is inborn with me. Do you know how great that is?"

Yoga: getting trained to perish?
Sit as lifeless
Double certain
Overwhelmingly wrong guesses or better?
Flattening strategies T
Roundabout means

Supporting reservations are presupposed throughout:

Yoga: getting trained to perish?

Some rude 'clowns' can train you to perish under them. How can you ward it off, in case? How can you protect yourself?

Think "well-well" to fit in and avoid drudgery.

Another great Harding handling brambles . . .

Some strangers boast a little and deceive well. That is seldom a big problem for hardly Airdale terriers. Good luck to them.
The words soap operas make regular use of, reflect public esteem. And great-looking words may not come true. Tao Te Ching, ch. 81.
Very speculative and domesticating abuse of great words are hardly as serious as massive, infiltrating innunendos, though.

THE WORD God requires no outward gestures - only fine diving inside (contemplation).

All Of A Sudden Warnings And Words That help

A SKILLED entertainer once explained that not all members of his family were like himself.
"My cousin Wilfred was eleven years old, sitting on a fence and watching his father plough a field. A bull broke through into the pasture and made straight for Wilfred's dad. Wilfred yelled at once,
"Hey, dad. Look out for the bull."
Well out of the field his dad went up to Wilfred and said, "Thanks for warning and saving me, my boy. But how come you are speaking all of a sudden, after all these years? You haven't said a word before."
"I did not feel it was worthwhile then," said the boy. [Of]

Better to ask the way of decent work than enter a flock of animals (read: sect) that helps non-living [cf. Dp 11]

How to evolve Spirit-attention

Self-mastery depends upon the acquiring of four states of consciousness:
First, [pratyahara] Prohjihara, or the state of withdrawing the attention from sensory disturbances; Second, [dhyana] Dhyan, or the state of focusing the withdrawn attention on Spirit; Third, Dharana (conception) or the state of holding the attention of Spirit; Fourth, Samadhi (identity of meditator and object of meditation) or that state of realizing Oneness with Spirit. - Swami Yogananda.

These vital steps og yoga mastery are delineated better in the Gold Scales' commentary to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras [q.v.].

How to sit as if lifeless

If you sulk in the ordinary ways, you should perhaps know that there are far more economical ways to do it: Just listen inwards, sit silently and get wise before it is too late to remedy things very well.
If your leader said "Jack of the Beanstalk lives on, and there are many sorts of cosmic giants, after all," would you believe that climbing the cosmic ladder is gliding inside into a Jacob's ladder found by sitting still and closing your eyes - at least halfway?

"It was just a dream," some say.

I am climbing
Jacob's ladder . . ."
- Negro Spiritual.

ONE DAY a man called Jacob set out on a journey. At a certain place he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream. In it he saw a stairway [or ladder] resting on the earth. The top of the ladder was reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
There above it [or there beside him] stood YHWH, and he said: "I am YHWH [it sounds a little like the ash Yggdrasil], I will give you that your descendants will be like the dust. I will not leave you till I have done what I have promised you."
When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, "Surely YHWH is in this place, and I was not aware of it."
He was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven."
Early next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it [cf. Genesis 28:10-19].

He got the ladder and the angels and God on his side - quite a lot through fraud and trickery in the first place. Not too many know that full well.

Compare: Jack and the beanstalk

Heeding some calls of nature or not

Formerly, new made popes were seated on a chair with a hole in it. Then they threw money to the people. The design of this delicate throne was to intimate to the newly elected pope that he was subject to the calls of nature like other men. [Of]

"Jesus can reincarnate again . . . in flesh and blood right now" - Paramahansa Yogananda [Ak 232] Will he?

How to make double certain

"One night (Yukteswar) failed . . [Pa 113]. — I thought I would go mad . . . I approached him cautiously. He wasn't breathing. — This was my first close observation of him — It filled me with fright. —
To make double certain . . . I closed his mouth and nostrils with my fingers. — His body was cold and motionless. —

He did not bother to go to the toilet, shave well, wash his face and body in the damp Indian climate, surrounded by ardent disciples in a minor room. What did all this sum up to or smell like? Is not that relevant to look into at last?

"He was giving me a demonstration," I thought. "That is (what) I must strive to attain]." [Pa 114].

To be merely furtive is not as good as letting lots of snug drivel strengthen the mind.

"I Die Daily" not "I lie sailing"

Many common people fear dying a lot, and this often gets repressed under the humdrum trivial matters and surface veneer throughout adult life. It seems like a problem. Opposed to it, Yogananda at times quoted the bible passage, "I die daily," [1 Corinthians 15;31], and said kriya yoga (q.v.) or something similar was the method for it. Only to very, very few, one should perhaps add, and

"We ought not to fear to practice conscious death, i.e., give rest to the internal organs. Death will then be under our control," - Paramahansa Yogananda. The Science of Religion [Scp 78]

"The more one practices it with patience and regularity, the more one feels intensely". [Scp 73].
The requirement for getting able to sit for hours, days, weeks and so on are:

Love to learn it.
Earnest inquiry.
Going about steadfast till one dies.

Maybe the good thing is that one is said to get back from death too. However, Yogananda claims that if we go halfway, the result - dying - will not come about. It seems like hanging oneself halfway - it should not count. [cf. Scp 73] 4.
Besides, Yogananda also says: "Do not waste time in negative thinking." [Scf 53].
We should all mind that. So far we have seen that one thing is being afraid of old age and death. Another thing is striving to die without dying . . . and perhaps lose the fear of death in so doing. That could be nice, or what? Like the old maxim memento mori, remember you must die, which alerts one to sharpen up to get a fuller perspective on this and that.
Most thoughtless people would guess that striving to die is the ultimate no to living, the topmost negativity, but Yogananda taught otherwise, loving to look at, insisting on telling the truth and that (some female) God was on his side. His regular training in getting able to breathe quite like a dying artist is called substantial help, not undermining. But things also depend on who have the upper hand in your life - is your free will intact, and how does it serve you after you have been bound? [See Scp 74].
Now, to be butchered is to be outsmarted, no matter what it is called, supreme help or something better - through a sad faith.
Yogananda teaches you a staunch, erect position of the head, neck, spine and with non-drooping shoulders - and gasping very well - almost inaudibly. You do not believe that but stand firm enough against negative thinking and being fooled into deviant living.

Write down your ideas and include one or two funny stories . . . finish with a quotation. - Paramahansa Yogananda, [Say 68]

Your most supreme cosmic giant's alarmingly bizarre wrestling match

ONCE when a man called Jacob was alone in the wilderness or nearby, a man popped up and wrestled with him till daybreak. The man saw that he could not overpower him, and then he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said,
"Let me go, for it is daybreak."
But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
The man asked him, "What is your name?"
"Jacob," he answered.
Then the man said, "Your name will not be Jacob any longer, but Israel, [he struggles with God] because you have struggled with God and men and have overcome."
Jacob said, "Please tell me your name."
He replied, "Why do you ask my name?"
Jacob found: "I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
The sun rose above him, and he was limping because of his hip. [Cf. Genesis 32:24-32]

"This is just one more of the stories of that lying Jacob, the rascal who lied to his dad and cheated his own brother to steal God's terrific blessing to the first-born twin," many may say. "Here the very demagoguous yarn is that he seemed equal in wrestling for a whole night - equal to the maker and twister of the world - Believe as you may."

Overwhelmingly Wrong Guesses Or Better?

Handling Bosses

THE SKILLED insider could do well to pause and think tactless thoughts to his own advantage. Example:
"Almost none around believes this till he is on the other side or has contemplated well - maybe not even then:
Deft handling of this and that law is had by governing over it somehow. Hidden to the man in question, maybe his master-ordained giant purification serves as the best way to get rid of him while he thinks he is specially favoured under his stern teacher's patronage - under his wings.
In fact, the public opinion can operate just like that as well, and not infrequently. Like unsound, unduly dogmatic and overbossy master-discipline that could work as the traps to get a man down into outre customs, rigmarole and perhaps also collective dwarfing."

WE BECOME glad by handling lots of good inheritance well.
We often do well to take good conduct to be the root of much conform, regular discipline.

AND WE NEED some basic codes for how to live together as man and wife under the larger family's wings again - in part through well-founded standard get-along-well-discipline that has the plotted propensy of getting rid of prigs and things that count. Good living is that."

Found In Laws of Manu

The yoga anecdote and its aphorisms tie in with cognitive matter found inside the ancient book Manu Samhita, translated into English by G. Bühler, and published by Oxford University [Mux, verses 110-18, mainly] [Link].
We have tried to make the selection and exegesis fit for a stout lad all along. Let there be no doubt about that.
We have tried to make the selection and exegesis fit for a handy lad; they can seem overwhelmingly wrong . . .
That the gnosis of Jehovah is spoken highly of, and yet is taken to work overwhelmingly wrong in the eyes of the many by how they live, is old doctrine. On top of that, maybe the good thing should seem overwhelmingly wrong to you too - are not you and your family well inside the world somewhere? If that is not so, let us know -

Flattening Strategies

Really fiery experts may have floundered or so. There are ample reasons to insist on the better alternatives to getting fiery and cracky. Much fullness of heart makes a bit lax; and then there was Samson -

Coyote combats and much better

The stand in lots of martial arts is to put oneself into the opponent's place and "breathe" like that one, so to speak, to get a feeling from a different perspective

WE COULD note that to get sectarian-bitten or smitten could be the outcome of a smart fishing ministry. To get bitten can be marked by getting blunted or dwarfed between the ears. There are many sweet and lovely ground rules for that accomplishment. Much takes off from being taken in in the first place, and next halfway enslaved by blunderbuss teachings. Hits against them or proselytes could in turn do excellent harm to good masters - there is that risk. For there are more animals than a wicked or fiery coyote in the environs of a huge prairie farm.
Think of six concentric circles if you care to; and seek to get well guarded and helped on and up in any way you can. You can handle such significant Hi-Tech things before hard encounters with fools intent on murder or rape, or stubborn believers that mean to hate you for good turns. There are not a few hypocritical, hateful guys all over the United States.
To be true to fact, one could flounder without combatting strength - it often means meanness. And to get solvent is much better after it, much more costly to go for. Perhaps very outsmarted pigs and hens do not think of it that way. Yet, do not just sit there and wait or flounder. Try to get aided by higher conscience. Tick tack toe strategems may surely lighten the load after many plan bits are neatly seen through.

We should not do much on top of hearsay.

DAO SEARCH

Combatting many of the things that count, turns you into some dark horse. And if so, get aided by lovely scenery

Deep needs surface and come to the fore once in a while, and through such outlets that seem available.

Highly perfidious mentions bring on peculiar study skills and combatting measures -

ONE CARDINAL question is whether bosses are out to help and save, or capture chatterers and klutzes, for example. What we need to do is to actualise themes and important topics, next articulate more and better. it is a good procedure and could put the feet of some of us on somewhat more solid ground than that of tales of hearsay. Perfidious mentions will hardly amount to saving anyone, not even you.
Doing things like that can bring us close to encounters with fools intent on murder, or stubborn believers that mean to hate us. There are not a few hypocritical, hateful guys in the States.
Think of three concentric circles with God in the centre, all those you think highly of outside that, and then you can go on to get well guarded. You might need it. ¤
Outsmarted peacock hens run here and there. It is their way. But in limited settings it's more or less unsuitable for self-defence. In the open it should work.
If your over-riding setting is so little agreeable that you find the hare has got it better in his free-wheeling life-style, go for thoughts that have a practical outcome for you personally. Rise on top of one set of such thoughs the sooner the better and love to forget God's intervention if that helps. You are called to do greater works that God Jesus, the gospel says - and also: "All is possible with the one who has faith." [Cf. John 14;12. Etc.] So do not just sit there and flounder.

Not every family on US prairie farms needs to get dwarfed and tamed by kings

THE THINGS we look into should determine a lot of what is articulated, and likewise should higher conscience. Inside the standard instructions of our Bramble Farm there are master-given and later somewhat boss-ridden medley standards that hardly suit an Eskimo. To be true to fact, he could flounder due to them. And to get solvent is much better, much more costly to go for.
We should note that to get 'ear-bitten and mind-smitten' could be the outcome of fishing ministry. No one should get blunted or dwarfed between the ears. Guard against it, even as you turn on the radio. Ear care is fit for many. There is a tribe in Africa, the Makaans. They treat their ears gently, speak softly and nicely to one another, and keep an acute hearing all life ling. [see Mum].
There is a statement: GIGO. It means "Garbage in, garbage out". [see Ap] It suggests, "Listen to bossy medley and reap the results" - it could be a wrangled mind. To help yourself in a GIGO setting, a Bramble Farm somewhere, you could use the night time to listen to the radio if you dare. It could help, just as it helped Norwegians through long years of being occupied through the most of World War 2. We just point to an alternative - one that could mean a difference for young ones submitted to trolls.
In real life there are many sweet and lovely ground rules for basic accomplishments, but more goes into a life than beginners' hints. No one that means well should make a living and get hailed by taking in many innocent ones, and bind them vehemently. The gardener and fruit farmer lives better than that, we suggest. Your savoury knowledge could make a difference, but do not let it turn into a "fiery, wicked coyote" near the Farm of someone. There is danger in that. Better take care and keep some distance, for example.

It normally pays to get artistic and well in time

YOU CAN expect tricks from those that are strong enough to feign all-powerful and eager to help and rescue OK and fair men.
You do not have to be a great philosopher to study our tick tack toe programs. They are fit for fair men all over the planet, because the cosmology and outlooks inside them is incredibly synergetic - in fact advanced. The quite all-round strategy of the tick tack toe system allows us to say things somewhat tersely, in gross outline, and yet with relevant precision - this acrobatic feature is a novelty. In short, we may use it to sum up lots of things in a nutshell. It may serve us well.
If big, puffing wolves and idolators really bring Christianity, it is hardly the regular apostolic growth, yet very many of the tales the yogi wolves circulate, can be loved as fantastic stories - is that a problem? Yes, if they are used to dupe for a following - and it could happen parts of the content appears to suit inmates of cloisters or asylums fairly well. There it is, the mention fit for tackling over-riding hearsay. It's not much substantiated, not verified by first-class back-up, and so on. These are marks among men of class. ¤
Tedious self-help yoga could lead some of us to a God inside, and that All-God looks like the potter and God of heaven and earth with earth as his footstool.
And for the record, God has not been observed by me on roller-coasters yet, even if Jesus has said he is inside needy little ones.

Summary

TO ACCOMPLISH sinister, bad things, look elsewhere. To accomplish fine things, including sermons, associate much better than all sorts of knaves. Also learn to escape the plotting enemies the day you can. Basically, neither gambling, ill manners and lots of inadequacies fit all that. Smartness does.

TURN TO IMAGERY IN THE ART OF UPBRINGING. Combatting many of the things that count, turns you into some dark horse. And if so, get aided by lovely scenery. Raise the example. Like the content of the saying "A picture says more than 512 words," the value of the raised example is grossly underestimated in the art of upbringing.
YOU CAN TURN TO NICE, GOOD UNDERSTATEMENTS IF YOU SO LIKE. Not every family is served by getting grossly "dwarfed" and half-tamed into servility by bigwigs, topdogs or crazy kings. The things we look into should determine a lot of what is articulated. Yet good things and nice scenery have to be guarded. it is a forerunner of it to find: "There's no good coyote in the Wild West when not even Jesus Christ was good - only God alone." He said so: then you can believe it.
ARTISTICALLY FORMED WISDOM MAY HOPE TO SURVIVE BETTER. It has been like that for ages. It normally pays to get artistic and well bred in time. Admittedly, bible sayings may not be solvency-giving, and many are not substantiated by modern, statistics-rooted research either. One example: The poor did not inherit Spain, where about one per cent of the people owns ninety-nine per cent of the soil. Yet, the real value of a proverb or classy saying is found in the practise attuned to it, first and foremost. Sometimes it fits, sometimes it doesnt. Very many handling skills are formed on top of scientifically unverified wisdom, and so is tact and culture in gross outline. Without it, we could hardly hope to survive - it seem to be a great, alarming problem to some.

It's good to turn to heartfelt images in the art of upbringing till the young ones reach twelve years or so. And various fables do use "cunning understatements" that show much at stake anyhow. One of the strokes is called distance-making. When animals portray gross, old conditions of mankind, it is due to a method of distance-making. Blossoming cartoonists use it too. And wisdom so portrayed can survive if it brings few or no problems to those who hand it over to next generations. It tends to be like that, and do not forget.

Hardening 'Ape'

Petty dictators
behaving immaturely
unload their moods
doing what they please
do not check their indulgence in sadistic habits
gradually become mental alcoholics
Thus lose respect.

Self-control practiced daily
will help.

This poem is a string of well selected fragments from the book Man's Eternal Quest [Ak 201-2].

And what about you, little lamb?

Are your teeth strong and good to look at from the hand of nature? and loveable?
Let all your inner organs and senses be in good shape
no matter what.

Roundabout means

The methodology devised is not new. There is a talking donkey in Numbers 22 in the Old Testament.

Aesop devised parable-like methods of instructions that were much skilled and have flourished in Europe and even Japan to this day. [Fo]
A brand new teaching method that borders on parable teaching can be very well. It could be cogent and in over-all harmony with how the mind deep inside deigns and comes to grips with a lot of things - and this pertains to children, youngsters and grown-ups alike. The deep mind has facets and functions that operate in various contexts and on lots of significant levels. We are good and skilled educators of human beings if we reach methods and content that fits well. Here we speak of methods with significant congruence to the inner mind and how it is most likely to work and thrive.
The very allegorical (poetic or semi-poetic) devices of such as fables, parables, many proverbs and skilled poetry, can and do allow us a indirect entry or three into the hidden aspects of the mind, and that could be rather important. The suggestive art that we speak of here, operates on wavelengths or levels that frequently reach into the archaic mind and instruct inside it. The brisk, candid and straightforward manner may meet with resistance and plotting manoeuvres against unwelcome insights, but the indirect, often roundabout manner of tall parables can still hit the mind fairly well. Or so it seems. There is good enough reason to assert with Dr. Eric Berne that the archaic level of mind is seldom reached through abstract presentation, but can be reached through imagery, allegorical mastery and emblems that fit. And since primal moral seems to be linked to that archaic level of the inner Child, (Dr. Berne's term), there is reason to suggest that the roots of good moral dries up or dies if they are not catered for in fit manner - imagery and devices found in fairy tales, fables, good proverbs and the better parables. It could be that way.
Without parables Jesus Christ did not instruct the public, says Matthew in chapter 13 - he took to parables to teach very well. it is the model. In our tales you get that best feature incorporated, in part aligned with Old Testament wisdom. Can any instructional method be more classy than the ones God himself stood for again and again? It can be debated. Here are hard-won parables on top of proverbial sayings from the Old Testament. The Book of Proverbs of the Bible consists of collections that are just attributed to king Solomon, shows Encyclopedia Britannica.
Rare, primal-looking semi-identification is no small feature of parable and fable. Sound identification is a rare feat. It can be had by letting fable animals represent, enact and talk, due to significant encoding that matters. We find that in parts of Nordic folklore as well. In themselves, fables, parables and even sound, rustic proverbs can teach the inner mind a lot of good stuff, in ways that work well. At times they let us be candid and yet gentle when we teach the unwelcome lesson.
We find that fables, allegories and cartoons of quite mature calibre, ride high on some distancing. Skilled distancing imparts rationality and better, more impartial overviews in things that matter. We speak of significant teaching devices here. Without them we could end up getting too concrete, far too specific and perhaps make innocent minds suffer from regular, boring drill. Such strides inside teaching can very well evoke harsh, tense or awkward manners later in life also. Good parables can hit the target fairly well and often counteract a bit of that.
Brisk-looking and adequately attuned poetry (Aristotle's concept poesis in new and old ways) is likely to enter a Child mind as well.
Good and pertinent humour can also help - it depends. It can depend on such as solvency and esteem involved, and lots more. But excellent humour in itself is related to very high and solid functioning, or mental alertness and brightness, asserts Dr. Tollak B. Sirnes [cf. Toh].

For such reasons as hinted at above, the candid, terse gentleman and his gentleman humour may fall short in some settings, whereas good fables that have reached artistry of style and grace in the first place can embolden innocent beginners through indirect means.

Adjoined

Ak: Yogananda, Pa.: Man's Eternal Quest. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1975.
Ap: Mieder, Wolfgang (main editor), Stewart A. Kingsbury, and Kelsie E. Harder: A Dictionary of American Proverbs. (Paperback) Oxford University, New York, 1996.
Dp: Fergusson, Rosalind: The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs. Penguin. Harmondsworth, 1983.
Of: Fuller, Edmund: 2500 Anecdotes for All Occasions. Wings. New York, 1970.
Pa: Yogananda, Pa.: Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1971. – ONLINE 1st edition
Rajn: SRF: Rajasi Janakananda (James J. Lynn): A Great Western Yogi. SRF. Los Angeles, 1959.
Say: Yogananda, Pa.: Sayings of Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
Scf: Yogananda, Pa.: Scientific Healing Affirmations. Self-Realization Fellowship. Los Angeles, 1958.
Scp: Yogananda, Pa. The Science of Religion. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1953.

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