Tourist who go there come out confused.
Some of the scams skims the life long saving of the elderly of the Western countries.
Do not go there for an easy life and end up in one of the many trikeries.
The Thai Law protects the locals and scams are perpetual.
Think before you book a holiday which on surface looks promising.
Stay where you are and enjoy your Own Hospitality at a higher cost.
This piece is to highlight monasteries and Thai Meditation Masters who lure tourists and leave them stranded without inculcating Dhamma Principles.
Read my book on "Meditation (Weaponized) Commerialized", coming soon at Amazon books.
This book was long ovedue.
I postponed publishing, it mainly due to a few of my family members were involved in Buddhist Meditation not as monks but as lay people. Daryl Ankar come to my mind and he has gone nuts.
I had seen at least 6 guys over 55 with problems after attempting Meditation in their Retirement. I referred them to a psychiatrist who was a friend of mine.
I was his best man in his wedding.
By the way, I had performed this task 13 times and quit this ceremonial function abruptly.
The last one was with a Doctor few years younger to me. He ended up as a biochemist in U. S. A. He was an Anandian and was a crook. I was to to go to U. K. at the end of the same year on "No Pay Leave" and this guy somehow knew this and approched me one day and asked me whether I could become his bestman.
I said Yes without any hesitation since he was my deputy when I captained the University Hockey Team. He did all the organizational work of matches and I had to only come and paly.
He was very good organizer.
The understanding was that he would spend money for my 3 piece suit that would be useful when I vusit UK.
I did not bother to select the material and the colour. Of course, my look alike opposite Left Wing man was (I was Rught Wing) with me to guide me with the instructions on the day of the wedding. He was a parallel batchmate of him from the Science Faculty and he had the Wedding Schedule.
From 9AM in the morning delivering the invitation bouquet, till 630PM in the evening Wedding Photograph we were running from one place to another non stop. We were promised lunch at his home but we did not get even a cup of tea or a soft drink. Afterall, we could sacrifice a meal for a friend. After the photograph, I told my cohort "his job is done" and I would not come for the wedding ceremony. If I remember right, he had his own car and I asked him to drop me at the Colombo General Hospital.
I told him, I need a good bath and a drink at the Grand ?Grindley Bar located near Hyde Park Corner.
Rajanayagam
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