Leo Gura

No serious yogi would be that way. That is a cartoon caricature. Hinduism is eclectic and tolerant of religious diversity.

I don't trust anyone with anything. So I am the wrong person to answer your question.

Sure there is doubt. But it matches his general pattern of behavior at the time. He was def pushy with women.

There are corroborating witnesses. For example the rape victim's father told her it was rape when she told him what happened to her the day after it happened. That father was a credible witness. It wasn't a simple he said she said.

Why? I am sure she loves him and she knows he was a devil in the past. She loves him for his reformed self. A crime from 20 years ago should not be a death sentence. People mature and develop. Look at Mike Tyson.

I would not trust anyone to provide for me. I would try to maintain some kind of career so that I am able to earn money if I need it. There is a middle way between no career vs nothing but career. Mothers should have some degree of career, even if they don't do it full time.

1) Plenty of yogis become famous. 2) Religion has always been about self-help. Self-help and spirituality are very connected. Separating them makes little sense.

This is a no true scotsman fallacy. Sadhguru is a real yogi. Yogis have a wide range of views and beliefs.

1) I did not say the hallucination is easy to take off. The opposite is the case. 2) I said nothing about all cultures being equal.

He was only convicted of 1 rape. But I agree he probably raped more women who we will never hear from. He probably did much worse things that we will never know. These women were the tip of the iceberg. It is fair to say he was an abusive asshole in his heyday.

Being a Hindu is a hallucination too. So there's no contradiction. Culture is a construct of Mind.

To me it is different when Westerners cosplay as Hindu or Buddhist versus actual Easterners who come from those traditions. Sadhguru is a genuine, homegrown yogi.

Of course men don't enjoy that because men don't like being submissive. But it is bad for women too. It is bad for anyone to be financially trapped.

@enchanted Are you asking how you can love them, or how to get them to love you?

I don't see him drawing from any spiritual tradition but Hindu ones. He is a Hindu yogi. Calling Hindu yogis New Age is not right.

But he only needs to serve 66% of the 10+ years. So he will be out in 7 years. That's more reasonable.

Video of the judge's sentencing:

So what? Hinduism is not just a religion, it is a culture. He uses a lot of material from the culture and he teaches to people from that culture. His yoga is quite traditional. Sadguru is a typical Hindu yogi. Following their traditions. He's just not dogmatic about it, which is how it should be. I have not seen him do anything bad.

So what? He teaches yoga. This is a fact. And he has built Hindu temples to Shiva, etc. Pointing out the obvious flaws in religion does not make one New Age.

New scandal around Brand emerging:

That sets too lax of a precedent. Rich people could commit crime, go born again Christian, and then pay alimony to stay out of prison. He deserves prison time, just not 10 years.

He is not New Age. He teaches Hinduism and yoga. As Hindus do.

He got 10+ years. Brutal.

I'm making this thread to collect every important video or source of information I find about understanding Israel's deceptive behavior. I've found dozens upon dozens of important videos, too many to fit on the blog. So I'm going to keep adding them here. Feel free to add your own. This is not a thread about debating the Israel-Gaza war. I want to build up a playlist of quality videos for people who want a deep understanding of Israel's deceptive behavior -- the underbelly, if you will. This playlist does not focus on understanding Hamas or Arab terrorism or the latest news about the Gaza conflict (since we already have a thread for that). Warning, this list will be pretty negative as it focuses on uncovering deception, propaganda, bias, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and deconstructing illusions. I see a lot of deception and bias about Israel in mainstream western media which I want to dispel. That's what this playlist is about. This is part of my study of self-deception and self-bias. Sorry if this doesn't seem fair, but this is what I needed to study to unravel the deceptions. This is part of my own sense-making journey. Feel free to discuss any of the videos or share your own. Be mindful not to share low quality, hateful, or misleading/untruthful material. The point here is not be deliberately negative but to gain a deeper understanding of the Israel situation. I will delete any low quality material posted here.

This is a catch-all thread for any comments or discussions you guys wanna have about any entries from Leo's Blog.