Spin-off from a Big Walrus Study ☼

In the following a technique of creating mental distancing or space to the SRF guru and his church is employed. Folly may surface more easily by such means, but there is no guarantee it will. Distance-making techniques of various sorts can help humans deal with difficult topics and hence get it better, especially if form part of tidy forewarnings. An example of distancing is when fable animals portray humans and speak like humans too.

You may probably get an inkling of who Mahapanda in the mire of the world is. The giant panda admirers in the Loma-League and other such groups seem to quarrel among themselves. There is no need for that, but a need to let basic truths or points sink in with less anxiety. And that is what distance-making may do.

1. Now breathing in and out in a special way is more than loosely associated with the church of Loma-League

All my life I thought the Loco Guru was my guru and I was involved in Loma-League - the Mahapanda's Loma-League - on many levels. Since leaving 5 years ago, removing everything associated with Loma-League from my home, and not returning to the temples, I no longer feel anything for or from Mahapanda. So, can it be said that I left him or he left me? [D. E. Cadent (6/9/04 7:55 pm)].

Loma-League teaches breathing in and out in a special way only to the rules that limited human conditions, and it will kill the spirit of Loma-League.

Loma-League are trying to build their own church, the only way church – Isn't it so? - Somehow there is a big kink here – Two different intiations makes perfect sense. It may be why Mahapanda gave [some of his followers] the OK to give Kriya - Loma-League even goes so far as to say the Giant Panda Blessings can't be in the "Other" Kriya, because they are outside the org! [troyfel (6/8/04 10:04 pm)].

I took breathing in and out in a special way, with a "vow," - While it shouldn't bother me, it still kind of does. [Rhapsody (5/15/02 2:35 pm)]. (2)

I felt there was something unnaturally rigid about Loma-League that kept me at a distance. It has been interesting to have that confirmed [Ice Chimes (6/6/04 10:10 am)].

2. Earlier, lax breathing was not made conditional on any kind of cult membership

As the result of a "big dream" I had this year, (after mentally severing my Loma-League membership), I am deeply convinced that Mahapanda's friendship is given regardless - Can he be my Mahapanda if I believe so little of what he (apparently) taught? - he was not too concerned about that either - gave breathing in and out in a special way to a sceptical scientist-type, saying " - Try breathing in and out in a special way and find out for yourself."

Breathing in and out in a special way was not made conditional on any kind of church membership until 1960.

I think - that Loma-League started down it's slippery slope in changing - They probably had good intentions (the kind the road to hell is paved with) - Combine that with threats. [Damor (6/7/04)]. (4)

Loma-League make you feel that loyalty to Loma-League is the same thing as Mahapanda-loyality - and leads to some of the weirdness - Loma-League are a cult and use Mahapanda as the draw. [Hsss (1/17/02 7:12 am)].

I believe that learning to breathe in and out with skill to be the entry into a teacher/disciple relationship with Mahapanda - an advanced panda admirer can also stand in as proxy for Mahapanda . [Lotto (6/7/04 11:41 pm)].

3. The guru-given prospect of a lifetimes sentence if you quit, really exists

There are all kinds of rumours (I guess they're rumours). However, they come from the lips of Mahapanda about how if you give up doing breathing in and out in a special way you won't have the chance again for this "higher" technique for another x amount of lifetimes.

It has felt awkward to seek other teachings or paths to help myself, because of the feeling that I get that I am doing something wrong. [ladygodiva (5/14/02 1:21 pm)]. (5)

"Who wants to know if So-and-so is Really her Giant Panda?" [prantee (1/1/04 1:51 am)].

Summary: On the Wrong Track

Beware.

1. Hatha-yoga may be learnt outside Loma-League. Breathing in and out in special ways are part of hatha-yoga. Ujjayi pranayama is one such method. For learning it, no tip-toe-adjustments as underling is needed. It is free. Such points may be worth considering in the light of a kriya yoga oath, in part in the name of Jesus who reportedly said, "Do not swear."
2. Ujjayi, a free, easy pranayama method, has been known for centuries.
3. The sorrry prospect of a persecuting sentence if you leave Yogananda, really exists.

There is only one guru uniquely the devotee's own. But if you turn away from the emissary of God, He silently asks: 'What is wrong with you . . .?' . . . He who cannot learn through the wisdom and love of his God-ordained guru will not find God in this life. Several incarnations at least must pass before he will have another such opportunity." - Paramahansa Yogananda, SRF magazine, spring 1974, p 6. From a talk at the SRF Headquarters, 8/17/39