Friday, March 11, 2005

Stop my meditation class

i stopped going for my Qi-meditation class already coz there's nothing much to learn. In fact, with the yoga fad around recently, meditation classes are blooming like mushrooms and all the leotards-claded poseurs are rushing to attend them. But what do these people really know about yoga? They think that Yoga is a mere exercise and people of different religions can join without any conflict with their original faith. Wrong! In sanskrit, yoga means union with God, so if you are atheist, forget about yoga. For the poseurs, they only come in contact with the basics and knew nothing about the spiritual aspects. As for Christians and Muslims, the Vedic concept of God may be too different for them to assimilate. Asanas (the physical postures in yoga) are designed to strengthen the body so as to enable it to handle the energy involved during advanced training. It is a mere prerequisite. Most of the poseurs don't even know what kind of yoga they are learning, whether it is Bhakti yoga, Kriya Yoga, Raja Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Karma Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Tantric Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Mantra Yoga, or even Swara Yoga. The highest form of yoga is not the physical sorts but yoga of the mind, which is meditation. But can these pseudo practitioners sit down and meditate? No way, they will be too busy shopping around in their modern yoga gear and gym bag with a embroidered Om symbol on it, hah.

Back to the issue of meditation classes, the schools that conduct these classes are highly commercialised and are mere leeches out to suck your bank account dry. And they hardly teach any real stuffs. They play a tape or you follow the instructor's verbal instructions: "Breathe in, and chant So..........Breathe out and chant Ham...........". Bloody hell, the verbal instructions is in itself an obstacle for you to dive deep into the abyss depths of your mind. Serenity and sharpness of the mind cannot be bought with the money in your hand. Maybe that's why the commercial yoga schools come into the picture. To help get rid of yor money and put it in their safe hands.

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