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East meets West, by John Adago (2014)
DIR By: forbitals
Date: December 11, 2019, 8:20 pm
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East meets West, by John Adago (2014)
East meets West : the stories of the remarkable men and women
from the East and the West who built a bridge across a cultural
divide and introduced meditation and Eastern philosophy to the
West / John Adago (2014)
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Okay so he is talking about this London School of Economic
Science, started in the 1930's by Leon MacLaren. And this
should not be confused with the London School of Economics.
And then there was or is also this School of Practical
Philosophy in NYC.
John Adago gives an entire chapter of his own biography,
starting when his grandmother emigrated to the US from Italy in
the first decade of the 20th Century.
So he talks about many, like Gurdjieff and Ouspensky.
And especially Leon MacLaren and his father Andrew.
Andrew MacLaren (1883 - 1975)
"Wealth results from work. There is no such thing as a
'windfall'. When one acquires wealth without work or great
wealth with little work, others are being deprived of the fruits
of their labor. A community without justice will not survive:
to each must be rendered his due. A society, through its laws
and institutions, must inhibit one man from harvesting the crop
of another, that each may reap what he has sown."
Labour Politician
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Campaigned for the ideas of the American Henry George
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Re: East meets West, by John Adago (2014)
DIR By: forbitals
Date: December 16, 2019, 7:28 pm
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So finishing up with:
East meets West : the stories of the remarkable men and women
from the East and the West who built a bridge across a cultural
divide and introduced meditation and Eastern philosophy to the
West / John Adago (2014)
Want to record some of its references:
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
Leon MacLaren, MacLaren Lectures
Ouspensky, Tertium Organum,
Tertium organum : the third canon of thought : a key to the
enigmas of the world / P.D. Ouspensky ; revised translation by
E. Kadloubovsky and the author ; originally translated by
Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Bragdon (1982 edition 298 pages)
Author Uspenskiĭ, P. D. (Petr
Demʹi︠an︡ovich), 1878-1947
Francis C. Roles, multiple books, but not in libraries
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Standing for Justice: A Biography of Andrew MacLaren MP
(Enduring Quest), by John Stewart
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But not in libraries.
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Re: East meets West, by John Adago (2014)
DIR By: forbitals
Date: December 17, 2019, 5:58 pm
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East meets West : the stories of the remarkable men and women
from the East and the West who built a bridge across a cultural
divide and introduced meditation and Eastern philosophy to the
West / John Adago (2014)
So it mentions Thomas de Hartman, R. A. Orage, Maurice Nicoll,
Rodney Collin, as people from their group who follow Gurdjieff
and Ouspensky. And yes, these are some of the most well known
are read, but there are others.
Mention Adi Shankara, and Indian teacher who lived 788 AD o 820
AD.
Various mentions of Vedanta.
San Jose house
HTML https://www.vedantaberkeley.org/san-jose-center/
founded by Swami Swahananda
but also
HTML https://www.cmsj.org/about-chinmaya-mission-san-jose/
founded by
Swami Chinmayananda, affectionately addressed as “Pujya Gurudev”
blessed our effort when we acquired the property on Park Avenue
in San Jose in 1987. He named it Sandeepany San Jose. Pujya
Gurudev sent us the best teacher he then had in India, Swami
Tejomayananda, to be the first Acharya of Sandeepany San Jose
from 1989 – 1993. Swami Chinmayananda also formally named the
organization, Chinmaya Mission San Jose (CMSJ) in 1992.
Not sure if the above two connect to their Indian teachers.
So Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma, 12 January
1918[5] – 5 February 2008) was an Indian Guru and developed the
Tranendental Meditation technique. Associated with Beatles,
mentioned in song, and spoke to an audience of 4000 at the Royal
Albert Hall.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation_technique
HTML https://www.tm.org/
So this kind of meditation was seen as more suitable for
Westerners. ( note that Rajneesh/Osho would also proliferate
the number of meditation techniques.
HTML http://thinkexist.com/
So "Be Here Now" was written by Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
And there was some SYDA and Vedanta org established.
In 1994, at the passing of Leon MacLaren, Donald Lambie
succeeded him. Lambie is also a barrister.
Joy Dillingham, part of this.
They say this statue, Girl With Lamp of Wisdom is in Wallkill
NY. But here says it is in the UK
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book says statue is a bronze made by Nathan David.
So MacLaren and his people see the Gurdjieff - Ouspensky work as
introducing Eastern Meditation to the West.
For myself, I have always had only a limited interest in
Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation. Wanting things which are more
about thought and remembering. But yes, as that is what the
Gurdjeff - Ouspensky work seems to be, I have been practicing
for many decades.
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