Unexplained pains

What you got ? Back pain, leg pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, kundi pain, pain shooting down the leg from the back (sacro-iliac joint)? It hurts like hell but you don't really know why the pain started? No, that explanation that you came up with two days after the pain started and then simply believed afterwards doesn't count.

If this is you AND you have an open mind, then let John Sarno talk to you and find yourself free of pain.

This has had a tremendous impact on my immediate personal circle. People suffering from some sort of long term/recurring pain - my self, wife, mother, brother, father, friend (Carpal Tunnel), brother's friend all read it. Of these, mine was probably the one that lasted the shortest. That list includes people who had pains for years, people who were in a virtual house arrest because of the pain, people who could not participate in any sports or exercise, people who couldn't sit in front of a computer for any decent length of time.

The common thread - no doctor would diagnose an actual damaged tissue or broken bone in their body. Slipped/degenerated discs don't count as causes! Read the book and you'll see why. Not every person who's been recommended this book has read it. However, every single one of those who read it is doing well today. By simply reading this book and really following it! The book is very well written for anyone who has a good degree of scientific skepticism. But this will probably not work for the diehard scientistists and doctorists. No one can help those. To them, I say "Enjoy your pain!". In fact, my only suggestion for improvement for the book that I'd recommend to Sarno is to work on getting through to these people as well.


I hate to back up facts that can stand on their own merit by citing the names and qualifications of people who concur. But a come-down from this position for once is alright since this could end up helping some lead a much better life. Read the reviews of common people like you and me on that Amazon page if you want to hear how it worked for others. Dr. Sarno is a professor at New York University's medical school and is the director of rehabilitative medicine at the Rusk Institute. The Harvard-Radcliffe RSI group recommends two of Dr. Sarno's books very strongly. Several other physicians have contributed to his latest book A divided mind. But I shouldn't have to say all this if you pay attention and analyze/question everything in the book for yourself, rather than trying to view this as the opinion of someone authoritative.

One note - of course, if you do have a broken bone or torn tissue, this doesn't apply to you!

Stop that meditation now!

OK, don't read this post if you're likely to be offended by graphic material. I know that's like an invitation for some of you, much like the PG certification of some movies.

Dangers of Meditation

Follow the link that describes the dangers to your sexuality
. OK, I did jump to that link first, I'll admit it.

There did not used to be straight and gay. There were "householders," people who worked and were married and maintained houses, and there were "monks," who were single and lived in groups of men, and wore really chic robes.

That's right, meditation is sooooo gay.

I have done thousands of pujas over the years, and I am always stunned at the fabulousness...

AND, it is sooo French, er... Freedom.

The downside to all this specialness is that regular people get the feeling they are not good enough to meditate, and that they have to accessorize extensively first. You can't just sit down in your old jeans and meditate, you have to wear the right silk, and you can't just meditate any old way you feel, you have to do the technique taught by a teacher whose name sounds exactly as foreign as a French fashion designer. You don't practice the "Joe Smith" technique. No, you wear only Louis Vuitton and Prada, and you only practice the meditations taught by Chetsang Rimpoche.

How come my yoga teachers are named Victoria, Carol (and no, they aren't male. I know what you're thinking).

Things get more graphic as Buddhist philosophy is discussed...

Once Buddha was approached by a monk with a penis so long that he could suck on it. Obviously, having sex with a woman was a sin, but what was wrong with sucking on his own cock? It is recorded in the scriptures that Buddha ruled that sucking on your own cock is a sin. A different monk had a penis so long that he could fuck himself in the ass. He approached Buddha respectfully and asked, "Sir, is this a sin?" Buddha ruled that yes, this was a sin.

OK, if that left you wanting more, follow the link and read it yourself. He (It's a man) then explains that Buddhist monks are the best in fellatio! And then, the piece de resistance, a picture with title Woman worshipping the penis of a naked sadhu that's obviously Western.

Then there's the mandatory reference to the Lingam. The author's own experiences are now introduced

A couple of years after the 1971 Majorca course, I was in Switzerland on a meditation course, and found out for myself what a delight sex in the afternoon is when your days are spent in meditation and doing yoga asanas....

and it goes on.

This person's site provides a fine example of what happens to you when you do a PhD, or, as a friend points out, when you meditate too much :-)
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Yesssss!

The BBC reports today that India has passed a new law banning employment of children (the article doesn't provide a definition by age) as domestic help, in tea shops, cycle shops etc.
BBC NEWS | South Asia | India bans child domestic labor

This was very common among middle class families in cities where I grew up. My own family was somehow very careful about it and we always had adults as maids if we had ones at all. (There were some old people employed, but that's for another day). Sexual harassment? If anything, they went to the other extreme. The youngest one to work in our family was this 17/18 yr old girl and she complained to my mom that I (then in 2nd class) was whistling while she worked. My mom promptly gave me one on the forearm with a really hot dosa spatula, burning a nice hole in the skin, leaving a permanent mark. Were you CRAZY, mom? I was all of six and a half and just trying to learn to whistle!!! Certainly not at HER! OK, it's cool. Just giving you a hard time. I know that you didn't realize it was hot. All forgiven. I love you, mom! My point is ... That was probably good education for the rest of my life :-) to treat women with respect and watch when/how/where you whistle.

Yes, there is that argument, "at least they get a place to sleep in and some food to eat....".

No, they should go to school and not have to work until the various lobes in their skulls fully fuse. Of course, the gov. that makes the law should (and does) also provide free education to the kids, including lunch.

A ban is a good place to start. Like most things in India, legislation is no guarantee. But at least, there will be a stigma attached to it and at least the middle class will stop doing it, at least in the cities. Eventually, it will go away.

Speculating.....what caused this change... people generally started having a conscience over time? I think not... I think this has to do with the increasing affluence in India. Money can do wonders...

Beks and Ro

Beks and Ro