1. Not about this article itself, but the words are an interesting admission (give useful insight) on how Hindu religion is perceived:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-schre...86099.html
More generally explains why everything Hindu is viewed and treated as Open Source. Must be why christianism feels itself free to pillage from Hindu religion and brand the stolen parts its own. (Christianism certainly viewed GrecoRoman religio-tradition as Open Source...)
And so one sees more recent oxymorons such as "christian yoga" ("islamic yoga" too! <- 2 instances of that last which I've noticed so far, one of which was on a Malay website mentioning how yoga had something to do with his non-existence jeebusjehovallah again).
The real blame lies at the feet of all those indians who were selling Hindu religion in the west as a free-for-all pillage fest. Only natural that others merely followed in their footsteps: when individual indians were selling it to them for free (no matter that no Hindu would ever have shared it, as Hindu religion isn't shareable, certainly not piecemeal), surely non-indians can sell it too? After all, wasn't it sold to them as being generically "spiritual and non-religious" in the first place?
And such cheapening is why Yoga's moreover been reduced not just to exercise, not even only to "relationship experts" advocating it for boosting people's libido, but now also to how that official playboy dude - what's the name of that near-dead dinosaur, oh whatever - how his organisation released a "Playboy Yoga Video" featuring one among his harem doing "Yoga" both in apparel and in the flesh.
What's wrong with that? Well, it's Hindu religion. How to explain. It's like if they were to use our sacred Hindu shlokas as soundtrack of their next video release. (But I'm sure that indians out there have sold shlokas too by now. What are they called, "chants"? Didn't they already sell Hindu keertanas as some 'non-Hindu', 'generic', 'spiritual' relaxative as well?)
Hindus needn't be alarmed. There is no genuine Yoga in the west. The west has merely heard the word, learnt to meaninglessly mimic some random poses and at times regurgitate with shallow conception some of the theory behind them (but these just end up in new-agey half-baked "spiritual" lingo). Since then it has therefore been (misusing) all these words and poses, which remain meaningless words and poses in their hands. But no actual Yoga in the west. People selling it there aren't authorised to sell it and so it doesn't work for the salesmen and not for their customers either. And hence it keeps ending up Not Computing to them, as seen also in how it is sold as bottled 'hinduism-lite' or even generic "spirituality", as mere beneficial "exercise", or the more extreme examples such as the "yoga" video by playboy.
Still, should never have allowed people to sell what was not shareable in the first place. Meanwhile many Hindus continue to think that the popularity of "yoga" in the west is somehow a sign of "our" (who's?) "success". If ignorant kids in your family had a garage sale and sold off priceless family heirlooms (which are specifically not for sale) at a tuppence a piece to others, and those others then paraded your valuables as their own, in the sewer room of their mansion, for you and others to come marvel at - of course it works out to be a compliment to you. (Not.) But Indians are ready to believe this, why?
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/waylon-lew...41222.html
Oh yeah, almost forgot to add. To make matters even worse:
Of all the people one feared would speak up on this subject, that self-appointed representative of who/whatever "Rajan Zed" or something - who, when he's not booing trivially in cheap 'defence' of hindooism because he doesn't know to pick the right fights and certainly doesn't know how to argue the Right point in the Right way, is far more frequently seen in Google news inaugurating interfaith 'stuff' with Catholics, Mormons, and other christian=terrorist cults, and who was most recently seen congratulating the Vatican for its "Deepavali greetings" (=ill fortune, as everything that emanates from Vatican's foul breath is like a deathly frost to flowers) -
yes, *that* Rajan Zed, of all people, has been booing at the Playboy Yoga Video. That's how desperate/laughable the situation is. I suppose, viewed optimistically, his inclusion in the story is but perfect: adding some unwanted comedy to the entire tragedy. But oh, can't he just go back to his favourite hobby of fraternising with Hindu religion's declared enemy (christianism) again (but preferably not under his assumed position as the un-invited representative of hindus)?
Hindus should declare all parts of their religion permanently off bounds for aliens, thereby reclaiming all the sacred aspects belonging to their religion. That's the cure.
The *prevention*, as usual, would have been far easier: if only all the cheap opportunistic indians - looking for fame, fast money and/or wo/men in the west - stopped selling Hindu religion, which they obviously care/know nothing about. Why can't they just sell themselves instead. I am most willing to help them auction themselves off.
I am ever reminded of the wise Nakota/Dakota/Lakota NA Native Americans and their landmark declaration - the one where they banned all aliens from stealing from their religion, and declared as enemies all of their 'own' kind who sold any part of their sacred religion to alien elements. But Indians are not so wise.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-schre...86099.html
Quote:However, the key point of differentiation between Hinduism and these other faiths is not polytheism vs. monotheism. The key differentiation is that "Hinduism" is Open Source and most other faiths are Closed Source.Interesting choice of words.
"Open source is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code."
More generally explains why everything Hindu is viewed and treated as Open Source. Must be why christianism feels itself free to pillage from Hindu religion and brand the stolen parts its own. (Christianism certainly viewed GrecoRoman religio-tradition as Open Source...)
And so one sees more recent oxymorons such as "christian yoga" ("islamic yoga" too! <- 2 instances of that last which I've noticed so far, one of which was on a Malay website mentioning how yoga had something to do with his non-existence jeebusjehovallah again).
The real blame lies at the feet of all those indians who were selling Hindu religion in the west as a free-for-all pillage fest. Only natural that others merely followed in their footsteps: when individual indians were selling it to them for free (no matter that no Hindu would ever have shared it, as Hindu religion isn't shareable, certainly not piecemeal), surely non-indians can sell it too? After all, wasn't it sold to them as being generically "spiritual and non-religious" in the first place?
And such cheapening is why Yoga's moreover been reduced not just to exercise, not even only to "relationship experts" advocating it for boosting people's libido, but now also to how that official playboy dude - what's the name of that near-dead dinosaur, oh whatever - how his organisation released a "Playboy Yoga Video" featuring one among his harem doing "Yoga" both in apparel and in the flesh.
What's wrong with that? Well, it's Hindu religion. How to explain. It's like if they were to use our sacred Hindu shlokas as soundtrack of their next video release. (But I'm sure that indians out there have sold shlokas too by now. What are they called, "chants"? Didn't they already sell Hindu keertanas as some 'non-Hindu', 'generic', 'spiritual' relaxative as well?)
Hindus needn't be alarmed. There is no genuine Yoga in the west. The west has merely heard the word, learnt to meaninglessly mimic some random poses and at times regurgitate with shallow conception some of the theory behind them (but these just end up in new-agey half-baked "spiritual" lingo). Since then it has therefore been (misusing) all these words and poses, which remain meaningless words and poses in their hands. But no actual Yoga in the west. People selling it there aren't authorised to sell it and so it doesn't work for the salesmen and not for their customers either. And hence it keeps ending up Not Computing to them, as seen also in how it is sold as bottled 'hinduism-lite' or even generic "spirituality", as mere beneficial "exercise", or the more extreme examples such as the "yoga" video by playboy.
Still, should never have allowed people to sell what was not shareable in the first place. Meanwhile many Hindus continue to think that the popularity of "yoga" in the west is somehow a sign of "our" (who's?) "success". If ignorant kids in your family had a garage sale and sold off priceless family heirlooms (which are specifically not for sale) at a tuppence a piece to others, and those others then paraded your valuables as their own, in the sewer room of their mansion, for you and others to come marvel at - of course it works out to be a compliment to you. (Not.) But Indians are ready to believe this, why?
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/waylon-lew...41222.html
Quote:Waylon Lewis
Founder of elephantjournal.com and the Walk the Talk Show
Posted: October 31, 2009 08:24 PM
Playboy Yoga?! Now We've Seen Everything
Now we've seen it all: Playboy Yoga videos with Sara Jean Underwood.
It was only a matter of time, the ultimate challenge to those "Yobo" fans who say that Yoga for Weight Loss, Disco Yoga, Bikram, Adidas Yoga with (my friend) Rainbeau Mars and Yoga without all that annoying granola, Chanting or Sanskrit may not be "traditional yoga" (a moving target in and of itself), but nevertheless may help open the door to those who might not ordinarily be interested in pure yoga, true yoga, quality yoga.
(Again: There *is* no yoga in the west. There's just exercise. And new agey sermonising which is but a diluted, cheap and meaningless shadow of stolen Hindu Yoga teachings.)
Well, Sara Jean Underwood, a young lady who won the 2007 Playmate of the Year award, has inaugurated a new series of yoga videos that are all over the Playboy.com site. Yup, there's a new url in town:
www.playboy.com/yoga
Just the url itself is enough to provoke convulsions, grimaces, grins, vomiting and/or ogling. Beauty -- or otherwise -- is in the eye of the beholder.
This is provocative stuff -- it raises some tough questions about the Future of Yoga (some of which are addressed by elephant, yogadork, itsallyogababy, and joellhahn in comments, by our readers in the links above).
(Neither the questions nor answers are up to the west/christos/whoever else to contemplate. Yoga never was nor shall ever be theirs to have a say in; no say about its past, present nor future. Like I said: what they do - what they know - isn't yoga.)
In any case, as the Buddhists say, it's our obstacles or enemies that are our best friends, provoking self-examination, questioning and growing pains.
Now we've seen everything.*
Oh yeah, almost forgot to add. To make matters even worse:
Of all the people one feared would speak up on this subject, that self-appointed representative of who/whatever "Rajan Zed" or something - who, when he's not booing trivially in cheap 'defence' of hindooism because he doesn't know to pick the right fights and certainly doesn't know how to argue the Right point in the Right way, is far more frequently seen in Google news inaugurating interfaith 'stuff' with Catholics, Mormons, and other christian=terrorist cults, and who was most recently seen congratulating the Vatican for its "Deepavali greetings" (=ill fortune, as everything that emanates from Vatican's foul breath is like a deathly frost to flowers) -
yes, *that* Rajan Zed, of all people, has been booing at the Playboy Yoga Video. That's how desperate/laughable the situation is. I suppose, viewed optimistically, his inclusion in the story is but perfect: adding some unwanted comedy to the entire tragedy. But oh, can't he just go back to his favourite hobby of fraternising with Hindu religion's declared enemy (christianism) again (but preferably not under his assumed position as the un-invited representative of hindus)?
Hindus should declare all parts of their religion permanently off bounds for aliens, thereby reclaiming all the sacred aspects belonging to their religion. That's the cure.
The *prevention*, as usual, would have been far easier: if only all the cheap opportunistic indians - looking for fame, fast money and/or wo/men in the west - stopped selling Hindu religion, which they obviously care/know nothing about. Why can't they just sell themselves instead. I am most willing to help them auction themselves off.
I am ever reminded of the wise Nakota/Dakota/Lakota NA Native Americans and their landmark declaration - the one where they banned all aliens from stealing from their religion, and declared as enemies all of their 'own' kind who sold any part of their sacred religion to alien elements. But Indians are not so wise.
Death to traitors.