Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM and Karma Yoga
As much as ™ itself is said to be effortless meditation it does take some discipline to do. At the outset it is actually something you ‘do’. I have these old cassette tapes from the India TM teacher training courses with Maharishi, outdoor lectures with crows cawing in the background and such. He says plainly that ™ does take some concentration (in particular) to do, to recognize what is going on and ‘do’ the practice, it requires a little action to do. So yes, TM it could be said is ‘karma yoga’ from that standpoint and then all those old meditators out in coffee shops when they could be meditating, are just ill-disciplined loafers.. ‘taking it easy and taking it as it comes..’ as if that is a spiritual practice in itself. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : According to the concordance, on pg 303 of SofB, there's something on karma yoga. Hope this helps. cardemaister offers: At least YF seems to be karma yoga par excellence: simultaneous intense action (karma) and "non-action", samaadhi (yoga)?? On Thursday, July 12, 2018, 1:09:47 AM CDT, eustace10679 wrote: No, that's not it. I remember reading plainly that TM *is* Karma Yoga, the important issue being that after diving in you *have* ti get out and transfer to the outer world of action the what you got from diving in. That's why in TM extended practice -- without outside action -- is not recommended under normal circumstances and unlike other meditation practices. I remember reading it in the Science of Being -- and I've also read the Commentary. Maharishi's statement was straightforward and it did not involve interpretation. I think everybody should know about it. If anybody has the book handy and haven't read it, This statement remained in my memory as the most interesting in the book. And BTW it was written many years before the introduction of the sidhi program. Eustace -- The Meditation Meter Website http://emf.neocities.org/tm/meditationmeter.html http://emf.neocities.org/tm/meditationmeter.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Appropriating Patanjali Yoga
There is a professor who teaches religion at U Missouri who often brings his students up to the vedic yagyas that are scheduled out in the Fairfield meditating community, see: http://vedyagya.blogspot.com/ http://vedyagya.blogspot.com/ , he gets called on as an expert witness in to the colossal lawsuit actions going on between different (posture) yoga organizations and teachers trying to seize trademark over ‘yoga’. He is called to speak to explain how little there is in vedic and hindoo scripture specific to posture asana. Not much there to hang a hat or turban on that is not made up or is necessarily spiritual ‘yoga’ by scripture.. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : It could seem that material western culture is appropriating what were Eight limbs of yoga down to trademarks, like inside the marketing of ‘yoga’ as postures, though posture in practice is only noted in a couple or so of incidental comments of Eastern spiritual scripture,, These excerpts from, Namaste Nation http://rumyaputcha.com/ What “Cultural Appropriation” Misses.. Too often the conversation about cultural flows across color lines devolves into a useless debate about appropriation versus appreciation, a reductive rhetoric that misses, content. To this point—in 2016 the Indian government created a new “yoga visa” category, specifically for sixty-day yoga teacher training programs, which cater to Western (White) women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NVqjsmZxRg. .. A closer look at the numbers corroborates this point and reveals some startling statistics. According to recent industry data as well as research conducted by the National Institutes of Health, 36.7 million U.S. adults practice yoga. 73% are women and a whopping 80% identify as White. Mattel released a blonde “Yoga Teacher Barbie https://www.amazon.com/barbie-can-yoga-teacher-doll/dp/b0074uxqak” in 2012—a testament to the ways White women identify with and are identified by yoga in the United States. American Girl sells a yoga gear set https://www.amazon.com/American-Girl-Yoga-Gear/dp/B004QJHIMO, too. But, it’s not just that yoga is an incredibly homogenous and aspirational White female culture, it’s also an astoundingly upper-class culture. As of 2017 https://www.statisticbrain.com/yoga-statistics/, over 40% of yoga practitioners earned over $75,000 a year, and 25% over $100,000 annually. In other words, yoga studios are the new country clubs. The rabid commercialization of words like “namaste” provides a perfect case-in-point for how this system operates. A quick Google search of “namaste,” for example, pulls up a host of bizarre, but rampant mistranslations as well as a range of gendered lifestyle products, from jewelry and t-shirts that read “Namastay in Bed” to a Canadian television show called “Namaste Yoga,” featuring mostly White and light-skinned women doing yoga in beautiful locations in the woods or on a beach at sunset. / ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Spiritually, some of the Eastern saints in coming to the West like Ammachi, Karunamayi, Mother Meera and others have reflected their deep respect and admiration for Maharishi’s work and the place of Fairfield as a meditating community. Each one of these people in their own way articulate a marvel at what is happening in the West generally with the heightening of more people in spiritual life. From their travels they observe how many Westerners are actively pursuing spirituality, noting that in ways there is more of spiritual cultivation occurring in the West now than possibly even in India. What they mark is their seeing more Westerners who may have their time and resources devoted to enabling a prioritization of spiritual cultivation in their life practice, and while in India by contrast so many have to work so hard to just exist are left with little time or energy to lend towards spiritual life.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Appropriating Patanjali Yoga
It could seem that material western culture is appropriating what were Eight limbs of yoga down to trademarks, like inside the marketing of ‘yoga’ as postures, though posture in practice is only noted in a couple or so of incidental comments of Eastern spiritual scripture,, These excerpts from, Namaste Nation http://rumyaputcha.com/ What “Cultural Appropriation” Misses.. Too often the conversation about cultural flows across color lines devolves into a useless debate about appropriation versus appreciation, a reductive rhetoric that misses, content. To this point—in 2016 the Indian government created a new “yoga visa” category, specifically for sixty-day yoga teacher training programs, which cater to Western (White) women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NVqjsmZxRg. .. A closer look at the numbers corroborates this point and reveals some startling statistics. According to recent industry data as well as research conducted by the National Institutes of Health, 36.7 million U.S. adults practice yoga. 73% are women and a whopping 80% identify as White. Mattel released a blonde “Yoga Teacher Barbie https://www.amazon.com/barbie-can-yoga-teacher-doll/dp/b0074uxqak” in 2012—a testament to the ways White women identify with and are identified by yoga in the United States. American Girl sells a yoga gear set https://www.amazon.com/American-Girl-Yoga-Gear/dp/B004QJHIMO, too. But, it’s not just that yoga is an incredibly homogenous and aspirational White female culture, it’s also an astoundingly upper-class culture. As of 2017 https://www.statisticbrain.com/yoga-statistics/, over 40% of yoga practitioners earned over $75,000 a year, and 25% over $100,000 annually. In other words, yoga studios are the new country clubs. The rabid commercialization of words like “namaste” provides a perfect case-in-point for how this system operates. A quick Google search of “namaste,” for example, pulls up a host of bizarre, but rampant mistranslations as well as a range of gendered lifestyle products, from jewelry and t-shirts that read “Namastay in Bed” to a Canadian television show called “Namaste Yoga,” featuring mostly White and light-skinned women doing yoga in beautiful locations in the woods or on a beach at sunset. / ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : Spiritually, some of the Eastern saints in coming to the West like Ammachi, Karunamayi, Mother Meera and others have reflected their deep respect and admiration for Maharishi’s work and the place of Fairfield as a meditating community. Each one of these people in their own way articulate a marvel at what is happening in the West generally with the heightening of more people in spiritual life. From their travels they observe how many Westerners are actively pursuing spirituality, noting that in ways there is more of spiritual cultivation occurring in the West now than possibly even in India. What they mark is their seeing more Westerners who may have their time and resources devoted to enabling a prioritization of spiritual cultivation in their life practice, and while in India by contrast so many have to work so hard to just exist are left with little time or energy to lend towards spiritual life.
[FairfieldLife] Appropriating Patanjali Yoga
Spiritually, some of the Eastern saints in coming to the West like Ammachi, Karunamayi, Mother Meera and others have reflected their deep respect and admiration for Maharishi’s work and the place of Fairfield as a meditating community. Each one of these people in their own way articulate a marvel at what is happening in the West generally with the heightening of more people in spiritual life. From their travels they observe how many Westerners are actively pursuing spirituality, noting that in ways there is more of spiritual cultivation occurring in the West now than possibly even in India. What they mark is their seeing more Westerners who may have their time and resources devoted to enabling a prioritization of spiritual cultivation in their life practice, and while in India by contrast so many have to work so hard to just exist are left with little time or energy to lend towards spiritual life.
