Yoga Work 16

• The Ananda Conflict
• Press Release
• Elucidations

The Ananda Conflict

Ananda has tried to befriend SRF for years. Maybe the one you communicated with had grown weary. And maybe she was realistic, conditions being as they are.
      On 16 December 2002 SRF and Ananda came to terms on many issues after many years of battling in court (and off court).

Press Release Ananda wins more than 85% of the 12-year case A 12-year legal battle between SRF and Ananda Church of Self-Realization may have ended on October 28, 2002 . . . November 4, 2002 Press Release [Link] An UPDATE is here: [Link]

Elucidations

The thought of the Madre de Dios work is too much.

Q: . . . if you remember anyone who is ex-SRF or even in agreement with you about the cult.

Not all who have written to us agree copiously. But after one third of the SRF monastics left the premises around 2001 or so, it is harder for letter writers to feign that everything in SRF is perfectly fine and so on. Now I could have been too reluctant and lazy the times I declined to organise an SRF focused discussion board some years before the big Fat Sea Lion eventually came, but I feel all right about it anyhow. Only rarely does the Gold Scales serve as an intermediary for contact-seeking letter writers.

Q: I got banned from [the] Fat Sea Lion for quoting George Orwell].

Poor George - He fought intensely against that sort of stuff . . . But after all,

The poster put more into the posting than Orwell, and he used him for attacks. In other words, the Nobel prizeman George Orwell did not get the question-able fellow banned from the Fat Sea Lion. It was, as you might suspect, rude and uncivil content that did it.
      At times there is nothing better to do than striving to be fair. And here, once again we get one-sided whining and sulking over and over along with shunning of some simple facts.
      Here is how we may get Orwell to "lay gold eggs" for us - all the quotations below in sections 1, 2, and 3 (but not the headings) are by him [LINK]

Hm. "A saint is a sinner who never gave up". I'm quoting someone along with "It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good [Proverb, Op 144]."
      Be that as it may, you can be trained to consider difficulties to be great or small opportunities, at least when the difficulties and problems are small and hardly ever experienced as challenges, even. The sooner you solve problems, the better off you can be later too.

"Prepare for the hard while it is still easy. Deal with the great or big while it is still small. The hard has to be dealt with while still very easy. Everything great [to look at] must be dealt with while it is still small.
      "Therefore the wise man never has to deal with the great.
      "Who takes things very easy is surely in for dealing with more difficulty in the end. So "many easies" means many a hard. Who makes light of many things could find many difficulties." [Tao Te Ching, Ch 63, passim]