Meditation traps

There are many respectable centers for spiritual refuge. Unfortunately there are plenty more that would sooner take your money than soothe your soul. When choosing a meditation course, be sure to avoid any whose literature mention:

Payment: It’s a matter of etiquette to leaving a sum of money to the monastery as you see fit, no matter the amount; it will express gratitude for the course and pay for your board. But if the course is priced, then something is not right Acupuncture, which has nothing to do with spirituality Guoxue (国学, Classical Chinese Culture), an overused and rather devalued term Yangsheng (养生, health nourishment), another hackneyed TCM term, without specific meaning “High-end”: This invariably means the target audience is probably a particular class of moneyed entrepreneur and the goal is just profit