Teaching meditation in the land of its birth
I’M BACK, after nearly four weeks of grueling but highly successful lecture tour in Sri Lanka and India.
The hectic trip brought my wife and me to Colombo in Sri Lanka, and Madras (now Chennai), Bangalore, Hyderabad, Calcutta (now Kolkotta), Poona (now Pune), Bombay (now Mumbai) and New Delhi in India where I conducted workshops for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) chapters there.
Remote viewing, self-healing through visualization and telepathy are topics completely outside an executive’s field of work and competence. But these mental exercises that I made them perform were very well received and highly successful.They were an extraordinary group of management people.
In Pune, for example, almost all participants successfully performed telepathy to their great surprise, the highest percentage of success I ever achieved. In remote viewing, over 90 percent of participants in each chapter succeeded in projecting their sense of awareness to a distant place and described accurately what they had never seen before.The percentage of success in the self-healing through visualization exercise was difficult to determine because laboratory analysis was required to find out some illnesses. But those suffering from physical pain like headaches and back pains, were relieved of their problem.
FascinatingI have always been fascinated by India because of its antiquity, mysticism and many stories of paranormal events. I’ve heard that in India, there are people who can make things appear out of nowhere, walk on fire or have their skins pierced by sharp knives without getting hurt. People can stay alive without any food or any liquid for months, and heal all sorts of illness at an instance.
I thought I would have a chance to witness these things, but I saw nothing of the sort. Mystic people with extraordinary powers are not found in the cities but in far places or remote villages hundreds of kilometers away. They shun the dazzle and noise of city living and prefer the quiet calm of country life.
Instead, what I found was a very modern, progressive and dynamic country with a robust economy. It is a far cry from what I had been told it would be.Before I went to India I was told that in some parts people were so poor and hungry that some literally died on the streets.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.In fact I’ve seen more poor people on the streets of Metro Manila than even in Calcutta. I’ve seen places here that are dirtier and more crowded. There’s nothing like being in the place itself to change one’s false impression about a country.
ModernizingBut it is true that in India, traces of an agricultural life can be seen side by side with modernity. I saw late-model cars running in the metropolis alongside cows and pedal-powered rickshaws.If one is not careful, one can easily step on some cow dung especially near Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim temples that are visible everywhere like fast foods are in Manila.
Just to show how modernization had eclipsed the ancient religious culture of India, in Bangalore we had to pass inside a big department store building to reach the big statue of Shiva in a temple behind it.There is no direct passage to the temple except through that department store! It is like entering a 21st-century building and exiting into a Jurassic Age edifice.
Although I saw almost none of the mystical and paranormal side of India, the trip had its own rewards. My wife had a grand time exploring the famous pearls in Hyderabad, the cheap but quality jewelry in Bangalore, and the magnificent silk and carpet products in Jaipur.
Cheap books
Me? I enjoyed visiting the bookstores with their unbelievably low prices. I couldn’t resist loading my luggage with a lot of them. I don’t know why the Philippines can’t have cheap books and cheap medicines like India.
Like most Asian countries, India is fast losing its battle to preserve its traditional cultural heritage against the onslaughts of modernization. I asked our licensed tour guide, for example, what he thought of Ayurveda, the traditional herbal healing modality of India. He said, “Well, it also works, but British medicine works faster.”
Here’s another example. I felt awkward teaching Indian executives how to meditate and reach the alpha level of their brain waves, because where did meditation come from? India! It was like selling ice to Eskimos.
But these modern business executives have, generally speaking, lost touch with their glorious ancient past, like wealthy Filipinos who have become so at home with western concepts and practices they get surprised when introduced to something their ancestors practised for thousand of years.
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The hectic trip brought my wife and me to Colombo in Sri Lanka, and Madras (now Chennai), Bangalore, Hyderabad, Calcutta (now Kolkotta), Poona (now Pune), Bombay (now Mumbai) and New Delhi in India where I conducted workshops for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) chapters there.
Remote viewing, self-healing through visualization and telepathy are topics completely outside an executive’s field of work and competence. But these mental exercises that I made them perform were very well received and highly successful.They were an extraordinary group of management people.
In Pune, for example, almost all participants successfully performed telepathy to their great surprise, the highest percentage of success I ever achieved. In remote viewing, over 90 percent of participants in each chapter succeeded in projecting their sense of awareness to a distant place and described accurately what they had never seen before.The percentage of success in the self-healing through visualization exercise was difficult to determine because laboratory analysis was required to find out some illnesses. But those suffering from physical pain like headaches and back pains, were relieved of their problem.
FascinatingI have always been fascinated by India because of its antiquity, mysticism and many stories of paranormal events. I’ve heard that in India, there are people who can make things appear out of nowhere, walk on fire or have their skins pierced by sharp knives without getting hurt. People can stay alive without any food or any liquid for months, and heal all sorts of illness at an instance.
I thought I would have a chance to witness these things, but I saw nothing of the sort. Mystic people with extraordinary powers are not found in the cities but in far places or remote villages hundreds of kilometers away. They shun the dazzle and noise of city living and prefer the quiet calm of country life.
Instead, what I found was a very modern, progressive and dynamic country with a robust economy. It is a far cry from what I had been told it would be.Before I went to India I was told that in some parts people were so poor and hungry that some literally died on the streets.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.In fact I’ve seen more poor people on the streets of Metro Manila than even in Calcutta. I’ve seen places here that are dirtier and more crowded. There’s nothing like being in the place itself to change one’s false impression about a country.
ModernizingBut it is true that in India, traces of an agricultural life can be seen side by side with modernity. I saw late-model cars running in the metropolis alongside cows and pedal-powered rickshaws.If one is not careful, one can easily step on some cow dung especially near Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim temples that are visible everywhere like fast foods are in Manila.
Just to show how modernization had eclipsed the ancient religious culture of India, in Bangalore we had to pass inside a big department store building to reach the big statue of Shiva in a temple behind it.There is no direct passage to the temple except through that department store! It is like entering a 21st-century building and exiting into a Jurassic Age edifice.
Although I saw almost none of the mystical and paranormal side of India, the trip had its own rewards. My wife had a grand time exploring the famous pearls in Hyderabad, the cheap but quality jewelry in Bangalore, and the magnificent silk and carpet products in Jaipur.
Cheap books
Me? I enjoyed visiting the bookstores with their unbelievably low prices. I couldn’t resist loading my luggage with a lot of them. I don’t know why the Philippines can’t have cheap books and cheap medicines like India.
Like most Asian countries, India is fast losing its battle to preserve its traditional cultural heritage against the onslaughts of modernization. I asked our licensed tour guide, for example, what he thought of Ayurveda, the traditional herbal healing modality of India. He said, “Well, it also works, but British medicine works faster.”
Here’s another example. I felt awkward teaching Indian executives how to meditate and reach the alpha level of their brain waves, because where did meditation come from? India! It was like selling ice to Eskimos.
But these modern business executives have, generally speaking, lost touch with their glorious ancient past, like wealthy Filipinos who have become so at home with western concepts and practices they get surprised when introduced to something their ancestors practised for thousand of years.
http://showbizandstyle.inq7.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view_article.php?article_id=25738
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