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Posted by: X Insider - 11/02 - Family Connections
This is from a thread talking about what it is like inside the SRF ashram. The question was access to family and friends once one enters the ashram. Posted by X Insider on 11/16/02 down in thread:
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Everybody within the ashram is treated differently, according to his or her own particular circumstances. There is no one rule, although you are told there is even when you see there is not, so this is crazy making to say the least.

You are read the quote from Gyanamata about "what is OK for the lay disciple is death for the monastic." That scary language is enough to make you pause while your requests to see family are denied for a few years.

I was always terrified to request a family visit outside the boundaries of a few days every two years. The "counselors" are trained to make you feel really afraid and guilty about it and you get lectures about how you are being given exceptions (a common buzz word) and stuff like that. After you live in the hell hole for 10 years or so they ease up on you. And if you can manage to get your work covered, you can go.

Of course, there are monks and maybe even nuns who see family all the time. They have either managed to prove the brainwashing doesn't wear off (oops, I meant to say "discrimination") during family visits or their family has threathened to sue.

And of course, there are the elite who do kind of what they want, for various reasons, depending on what cards they hold, or how many years they have put in, or how they have managed to manipulate the system, God bless 'em.
It's a loony bin. But there are some really sweet people there. That's the sad part. No sadder, however, than the fact that people send money to perpetuate the farce.

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