| > I recommend the book "Inner Engineering". The book does not teach anything. It's largely an upsell to Sadhguru's cultish meditation programmes. Meditation instructions in the book are something like: a) pay attention to your heartbeat, or your breath, or your little finger for 11 minutes three times a day, b) eat less food, mostly raw, c) draw mandalas on the floor and place a ghee lamp in it and notice how the energy of the room subtly changes.
This is a joke, right? It reads like somebody who doesn't know anything about meditation is lampooning meditation. Sadhguru himself is an aspiring cult leader who teaches pseudoscentific twaddle like drinking happy water (because he claims water carries emotional memory [1]), how he can trap evil spirits in boxes with obscure tantric rituals (like Ghostbusters), encountering the frozen spirits of Native American soldiers in a forest [2], etc. He also claims his wife died by attaining Mahasamadhi [3] (allegedly you can meditate really hard and make your soul leave your body). Regardless of the murder charge, having to believe this nonsense to get with his programme seems hardly worth it. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C1p4HUHlfE [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBKvFnABpcA [3] https://ksmphanindra.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/the-controvers... |