Course announcement

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Hare Krsna prabhu,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

After Krsna Lila's course here in Radhadesh, we got some papers announcing a

a special weekend course in 'Creative Suffering'. Here it is:

 

 

 

THE COUNSELING DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MAHA MAYA

Announces a special weekend course in CREATIVE SUFFERING

Twelve Proven Techniques to Help you Become Depressed:

 

1. Dwell on past mistakes and failures. This is most effective when you

focus on things which cannot be changed.

 

2. Set unrealistic expectations for yourself and others. Expect

perfection now! This way you can guarantee failure.

 

3. Constantly compare yourself with others. To get the most out of this

technique compare your worst traits with their best.

 

4. Avoid all involvement and responsibility. It will be unwise to try

something new and risk success and satisfaction.

 

5. Remain negative and problem oriented. Spend all energy and effort

you can criticizing and judging yourself and others. There are always faults

to be found if you look long enough.

 

6. Allow yourself to be controlled by people and circumstances. This

way you can dislike yourself for being weak and others for controlling you.

 

7. Internalize and personalize the problems of others. Believe that you

are somehow to blame and you should have the responsibility to make it

right.

 

8. Don’t forgive yourself for anything. You deserve to be unhappy. To

really suffer, hold long and deep grudges against yourself as a further

proof of your unworthiness.

 

9. Seek isolation and avoid contact with those who care about you. Be

cautious and reject any help offer.

 

10. Do everything you can to please others. Believe that your personal

value depends on their acceptance of you. You might find that compromising

your standards and values for someone else will help you feel even worse.

 

11. Base your worth as a person on external things. View such things as

“how you look” (appearance), “what you can do” (performance), and “what you

have” (possessions), as a measure of your personal value.

 

12. Forget serving the servant of the servant as often as you can.

 

Note: If you want to be really unhappy and miserable, do several of this at

the same time. Remember, the more of these you can make part of your life,

the worse you will feel.

Master Teacher Sadhness Bendover, P.H.D.

Will conduct this counseling workshop in

Krsna Lila’s apartment the weekend of Father’s Day.

 

Dr. Bendover, is an internationally acclaimed teacher of self-negation and

author of the best selling book the Ecstasy Through Suffering. Dr. Bendover

will present how you can discover and enrich the depths of our own

depression as a path of purification and spiritual awakening.

Bendover will explore the 12 bacis techniques as they relate to our core

negative beliefs.

Refreshments will be provided, please wear uncomfortable clothes.