Kriya Yoga initiation concerns

@Jaredfelix You're correct. Anmol teaches a bunch of different things. His main specialty seems to be Kundalini Yoga. @Chodpa Would you rather these monks not travel and teach? That's the alternative. The airlines won't let them on the plane without money. Without money you teach a whole lot less often and there is overall less learning. The swami I learned from let me slide because I had no dough. Many months later, I sent in my contribution. They're not about money, but they know it makes teaching a lot more possible. Anmol makes money, too. He just has a different business model. Crank out a bunch of free videos and sell a few things to loyal fans after they enjoy a bunch of your content. People admire that more because he puts out a bunch of free stuff, but there's a business model in there. If revenue is flowing, then he can spend a lot more time producing that content.

 

First of all most of them are not monks.

'They' also don't travel to teach very often. The follow up is more important that the initial instruction. If they are not making a permanent center then there's no reason for them to come anywhere.

Also, I don't know who 'these people' are specifically but if 'these people' include Rajaneesh, Chogyam Trungpa, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and so many others then yeah, I would rather they didn't come teach their stupidity and abuse of others along with their 'spirituality.'

I do promote some teachers, but they ask for nothing. They have donors who also pay for others to attend teachings. They teach dharma, not just jargonma. They live their teachings, and die them. They don't keep others on leashes like pitbulls.

No karma police at the events, no politics, no splits in the sangha, no special clothes, no secret teachings, no individual private sessions, no splitting the sexes.

No bullshit.

I can't just judge some group's soul by a website. Though I can judge a teaching pretty well now.
But this is what I said:

NO PayMentS AccepTed evEn iF OffereD unTil You UNDERSTAND whaT iT is youRe geTTiNg INTO.

Once you have understood the subtext of the practice - not just yoga and Patanjali but the fact that you're becoming familiar if not actually Hindu, or Buddhist, if that's the case. It may not be. But the teacher should make available all teachings and promote thorough study of them so you can know, before a cent is ever accepted.

Try to judge your teachers based on that level of concern.

In your time and on your terms. The practice is for the individual not for the group or the teacher. You must be empowered to fill your thirst, or not, to come and go, to feel the truth and even refute it.

It's your world.

 

True. There's lots to choose from, and hopefully we learn on our own terms. We can make up rules for what's enlightenment and not enlightenment, but we can't change what enlightenment is. It goes way beyond opinion and ideology. The truth is not in opinion. It's behind the thoughts.