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...primary education which equips a child with the Eskimo technique of making a snow-house, but does not teach him how to spell. . . . Man has to earn his intellectual bread by the sweat of his brow. Why should primary education attempt to convert our children into little lotus-eaters...
Yogins have eight different ways of breathing. Most effective posture for breathing is the lotus. One sits crosslegged, spine and head erect, hands crossed palm-upward on the lap, eyes focused either at the tip or the root of the nose. Expert yogins hold their breath four times as long as it takes them to inhale, and take the equivalent of two inhalation periods to exhale. Thus their breathing ratio is 1:4:2. They inhale once every two minutes. Beginners, advises Dr. Behanan, had better use at 1:2:2 rhythm, to prevent dizziness and anoxemia...
Rinban Masuyama is currently busy with plans for a $60,000 temple for his San Francisco flock, to contain in its cornerstone a pinch of Buddha's ancient ashes and 50,000 lotus petals. Turning temporarily from his plans, the little Japanese took the gold Buddha down to Fresno, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. There Rinban Masuyama gave the statue to a Fresno priest named Enryo Shigefuji, and spent the weekend elevating Fresno's two-story, pagoda-roofed Temple to the status of San Francisco's that of Betsu-in or chief...
First, in a ceremony called Chigo, 300 children paraded to the Temple, carrying artificial lotus leaves as a symbol of purity. Among the moppets was one of Buddhism's 2,000 white California followers, a 14-year-old named Emma Balaric In the Temple, priests chanted, incense fumed as the statue was enthroned. That evening, with more chanting and with the congregation praying with 108-beaded Ojuzus, or prayer-strings, the Temple was made a Betsu-in and bespectacled Priest Shigefuji became a Rinban of equal rank with Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took...
...these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally the wind comes, blowing the locusts back up the valley. Back to the sing-song house goes Lotus. Back to the land goes Wang. Back to Olan, just in time, go the pearls...