Monastic Order of Self-Realization

Index of my posts about the Order of Self-Realization Fellowship and monastic life in the SRF ashram.

Ashram, monk life

• A Monks’ Ashram Weekly Routine
• Abandoning Family for a Guru
• Ashram Silence
• Dowry of a Postulant Monk – monies required to enter the monastery
• Existential Risks and Trauma of Leaving an Ashram
• Monks’ Halloween: Chinese Shadow Play
• My Daily Rituals with Monks
• The Secret, Underground Libraries of Monks
• Leaving God and Monastic Order
• Unholy Silence, Hollow Men

Bizarre beliefs and politics

• Ashram Politics
• The Ashram: Spiritual-Corporate Caste System
• Darshan: Mind-Reading Saints – Daya Mata’s powers over monastics
• Her stigmata crashed into my karma – strange monk beliefs about stigmatics and yogis
• The Postulant House Cat: Queen Nefertari
• Sleepitation – sleeping during meditations in Monks’ Chapel

Confessions

• Celibacy – Path to Bliss or Madness?
• Dark Nights of Meditative Souls
• Elvis in the Ashram
• Ex-Monk Autobiography
• Fearlessness is Doubt, not Faith
• Former Monk, Joy After Leaving Ashram
• Nonbeliever Ex-Monk
• Sex Was Death

Vows and Rules

• Spiritual Duties and Rules of Conduct of a Resident Disciple of the Monastic Self-Realization Order
• Vows (and Rules) of the Monastic Order of Self-Realization Fellowship
  • Chastity
  • Loyalty
  • Obedience
  • Simplicity

Monasticism, general

• From Monastic to Domestic Mindfulness – tracing mindfulness from Buddhist monks to everywhere in America
• Preserving Sex Fluids for Yogic Transformation & Immortality
• “Sacrificed” Child-Monks – excuse for child abuse in Asia