Tag Archives: spiritual practices

Why there are so many yoga masters and people claiming to profess inner healing call themselves God?

To me yoga, meditation and such inner healing practices are well defined disciplined forms of exercises which helps us to nurture and maintain our mental, physical and spiritual health. But I find it extremely disturbing to see a number of specialists and experts in teaching yoga and meditation claiming themselves to be God. They cleverly disguise their own way of religious/spiritual practices into their yoga and meditation techniques. They have thousands of followers and tell their followers to ‘stay away’ from their families and loved ones and not to go to temples, churches etc because being close with loved ones and going to places of worship (claiming these places have bad vibrations!) will bring a lot of negative feelings into their mind and soul. Many of these so called gurus are very very rich and boast a luxurious life. Are they not ashamed to call themselves God and how is it their activities have gone unchecked for so long…..? Can people be so very naive and stupid?

Why is marijuana made out to be such a bad thing.?

After days of research on everything I could find about marijuana, I have come to the conclusion that marijuana is the miracle plant. True enough THC does affect the short term memory while intoxicated and if smoked it can cause cancer just like smoking anything else, the benefits are much greater and outweigh the those things incredibly. Marijuana has been used in religious and spiritual practices for thousands of years. It has been used in meditation and in gaining a higher consciousness, it has been used for pain and used as an aphrodesiac. My question is: If there are so many benefits of this PLANT which GOD created for us to use as a tool, why is it shunned on so much?
No studies have proven that it is a gateway drug, and The Great Creator put it here for a reason so if God didnt create it and give it life who did. Not man. Man did create Crack, Meth, Heroin, and several other chemically based drugs that are killing people. There is a 4:1 to 10:1 chance of dying of alcohol intoxication as opposed to a 40,000:1 chance of THC intoxication.

Any Buddhists use this forum?

What advice would you give to someone on a journey toward general Buddhist spiritual practices such as Tai Chi, meditation and martial arts?