The yak penis is served with a dragon. In the Guolizhuang restaurant there are more than 30 different animal penises on the menu. And for very special guests there’s a list of others
Guo Li Zhuang (Chinese: 鍋裡壯店; pinyin: GuōLiZhuàngDiàn; literally “the strength inside the pot”) is a restaurant brand that specializes in dishes prepared from the genitals (penises and testicles) of male animals from a wide variety of species[1][2] such as horse, ox, donkey, dog, deer, goat, sheep, and snake. The first restaurant was opened by the Guo family in the Chinatown of Atlanta, Georgia in 1956 on the occasion of the birth of Jason Guo, the eldest son in the 7th generation of the Guo family.[3] The first Guo Li Zhuang restaurant in Beijing was opened in November 2006.[4] Since then, restaurants have been opened in several locations in Beijing. The name of the restaurant is derived from homophones of the family name of its founder (Guo), the family name of his wife (Li), as well as the nickname of his son (Zhuang) and literally means “the strength inside the pot”.[1] The dishes are supposed to include medicinal secrets passed down in the Guo family[3] and are often given poetic names such as “The Essence of the Golden Buddha,” “Phoenix Rising,” “Jasmine Flowers with 1,000 Layers”, “Look for the Treasure in the Desert Sand”,[1]“Head crowned with a Jade Bracelet”, and “Dragon in the Flame of Desire”.[4]
Beyond genitals, the restaurant also carries such curious (and rare) delicacies as stewed deer face, sheep foetus in brown garlic sauce, and peacock claws.(wiki)
According to a well-known saying, “Chinese eat anything with four legs, except tables. And everything that flies, except airplanes,” and the food served at the Guolizhuang Restaurant, in Beijing is proof of that. This bizarre establishment opened its gates in 2006, offering all kinds of dishes with animal genitalia as the main ingredient. Many Chinese believe animal penises increase male potency and do wonders for women’s skin, so word about the culinary wonders served at the restaurant on Dongsishitiao Street spread quickly, and the owners were happy to expand their business. There are now several franchises throughout Beijing and one in Atlanta’s Chinatown…
Eating at and even visiting the Guolizhuang Restaurant is not for the faint-hearted. Almost all the dishes served here are made from animal genitalia, although most of them are presented in an edible form and have interesting names like ”The Essence of the Golden Buddha,” “Phoenix Rising,” “Jasmine Flowers with 1,000 Layers”. They sound pretty good, but they’re really just ox penises cut into the shape of stars, sheep gonads on a bed of curry, or thinly sliced donkey penis. The bizarre food is sometimes also eaten raw. Because the foods served at this restaurant is uncommon, even for China, part of the waiters’ job is to explain the properties of each dish to guests. For example, women should not eat testicles, because the hormones could give them a deeper voice and a beard, but penises are harmless.
All of have seen the iconic Coca Cola crate.What is its story and who is behind it?
Coco Cola crate.
‘We’ve all seen the famous yellow crates, and whether the logo was in English, Arabic, Spanish or Vietnamese, we knew exactly what they were used for — carrying Coke bottles known to consumers the world over.
At his home about 25 miles from Coca-Cola’s Atlanta headquarters, the now 90-year-old Chandler was able to share with us what went into creating the massive crate some 50 years ago.
Through our conversations, I also learned that Chandler was responsible for installing every rivet in thousands of wooden Coca-Cola poster frames that sold for a mere $2. Today, they’re considered coveted collectibles worth hundreds of dollars.
As for the Coca-Cola posters that he framed, Chandler lithographed many of them himself — using the storied “Coca-Cola red” paint — which he blended as carefully as if he were mixing the celebrated beverage Secret Formula.
And thanks to a Coca-Cola employee named Jason Grubbs, I also discovered why the giant crate was built in the first place — another mystery solved!
Well,straying from the tested field to an uncharted course!
Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola is partnering with a french drugs manufacturer to launch a new line of beauty drinks which it claims will carry weight loss and other well-being benefits.
Coca-Cola and pharmaceutical company Sanofi will begin selling the Beautific Oenobiol brand later this autumn as part of a small-scale pilot to a limited number of outlets across France.
The companies confirmed the decision following a leak by Sanofi’s labour union representatives, who claimed workers were furious to see the drug maker ‘spouting about beauty drinks’ just a month after it announced to plans to reduce its workforce by 900.
Coca-Cola, the world’s largest beverage maker, declined to comment beyond a brief statement. But as concerns about sugary drinks grow at home and abroad, the Atlanta-based company has moved to diversify its options.
Earlier this year, Coca-Cola in France introduced Sprite with stevia, a natural sweetener that has no calories.
We have a crook in Atlanta professing to be a Swami and cheating People in the name of Hinduism, charging anywhere between $ 499 onwards(Bata price tag?).
Alcohol,beer and meat, all allowed in the premised.
A Guru will reach out to you if your search is honest and sincere.
He will not proclaim HE IS A Guru nor will he advertise.
Please read my blog on Guru,Acharya filed under ‘Hinduism’ and other blogs filed in the same category.
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ATLANTA (MyFOX Atlanta) — A million dollar mansion — luxury cars — and a religious leader who promises to heal the sick for a price. If you think you know where this story’s going — hold on.
I-Team reporter Randy Travis says chances are you’ve never met a preacher like this.
ATLANTA (MyFOX Atlanta) — For leaders of the Hindu faith, the temple grounds are sacred.
No alcohol or meat allowed on the premises. But some priests say they routinely had to clean up beer and meat after parties at the Hindu Temple of Georgia.
And as I-Team reporter Randy Travis discovered in his special report, that’s just the beginning
Video:I-Team: The Swami, Part 1 — FOX 5’s Randy Travis reports.
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I have that the cause for the raise and fall of governments are also due to black magic.(Commander Selvam Annamalai is an astrologer gemologist and a practitioner of Atharvana Vedha in the United States and India.)
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Dr. Selvam, an Athervana Vedha practitioner, believes he has the knowledge to cure problems ranging from backaches to marital conflicts. Selvam is a doctorate scholar and gold medallist from the Sri Meenakshi Institute of Vedhic Studies. In the United States and Canada, he is the only Atharva Veda spiritual healer, and his astrological services, prayers, poojas, Akasthiya Healings and detection and prevention of evil powers be used by over 4,500 families and ninety one US Corporations. Selvam’s studies have lead him to believe that of the four Vedhas, Athervana Vedha is the most effective in helping people better themselves, because it deals with the facts of day to day life.
A desire to avoid the facts of life is also the reason Selvam believes, Athervana Vedha has not been studied as extensively as the other Vedhas. He is only among 200 other scholars worldwide who have devoted themselves to learning the Atharvana Vedha. The practice of Atharvana Vedha includes chanting moola mantras, administering herbal medicines, reading astrology and palms, forecasting the future and performing poojas to Goddesses. According to Selvam, one of the facts of life that is hardest for people to accept is that humans are not controlled by Gods but rather by the planets. Selvam says the position of the planets control Gods, humans and all living creatures proper consultation can counteract any problems planetary alignments may cause. He believes Aadhi Aathmikam, problems caused by our mind and heavenly souls can be identified by astrologers with the help of the position of the planets.
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Unless these these eight steps are followed in order and you have a personal God Yoga will not be effective.
What is now being taught by so called Gurus is nothing but a fraud on Yoga.
Read Patnjali’s Yoga Sastra.
Yoga in this sense belongs both to Hindus and non Hindus if they follow it correctly.
Hinduism does not need labels;it does not need some one’s certification.
It is for your benefit.
Take it as it is.
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Sheetal Shah, an official with the Hindu American Foundation, hears a lot about the physical practice of yoga these days – but not much about its religious roots.
So her group, which seeks to provide what it calls “a progressive voice for American Hindus,” recently mounted a “take back yoga” campaign, including appearances at conferences and attempts to raise media awareness of the practice’s Hindu origins.
For Shah, who is the Hindu American Foundation’s senior director, yoga is primarily a moral and spiritual philosophy, a fact she says has been lost as the popularity of physical yoga has boomed in the West. “There has been a conscious De-linking between Hinduism and yoga,” in the United States and elsewhere, she says.
Yoga is mentioned in many of the ancient Indian texts that form the basis of the religion now known as Hinduism, which claims to be the world’s oldest religion – and which is the third most-practiced faith on the planet.
One main source of yoga philosophy is the sage Patanjali, who lived in the 2nd century B.C. and whose Yoga Sutras describe a philosophy comprising 8 limbs, one of which is the physical poses, or asanas, which are commonly referred to as yoga in the West.
Other elements of Patanjali’s yogic philosophy are concepts like the yamas, moral vows that include chastity and nonviolence.
Sheetal Shah of the Hindu American Foundationpractices yoga asanas in her home. She tries to incorporate yogic concepts like nonviolence into her life.
In a yoga class offered by the Hindu Temple Society of North America in a New York temple, yoga is taught as a spiritual practice in which the physical asanas are an essential component. But the practice is supposed to lead to meditation.
“Yoga is really a spiritual discipline,” says Uma Mysorekar, the Hindu Temple Society of North America’s president. “From its origin in Hinduism, yoga really originated from a Sanskrit word yuj, which means union.”
That union is supposed to happen, she said, “between individual being or the soul with Paramatman,” or cosmic being.
According to a 2008 study commissioned by Yoga Journal, there are roughly 16 million yoga practitioners in the United States. Those people spend $5.7 billion dollars a year on yoga classes and gear.
Most of that yoga is marketed as physical exercise as a health practice. Some Sanskrit terminology is usually used, and many practitioners in a non-religious context say they sense a vaguely spiritual aspect in the activity.
But most American practitioners wouldn’t go nearly so far as to label yoga as a religious act or even to relate it to a specific religious tradition.
“Yoga is a great thing, no matter what style you do, how you come about it, why you come about it, what you end up with spiritually from it,” says Donna Rubin, the founder of Bikram Yoga NYC, a New York chain of yoga studios offering yoga in the style of Bikram Choudhury, a contemporary Indian yogi who now lives in Los Angeles. “So to start nitpicking or criticizing this type of yoga or that type of yoga or what it’s not doing or what it should be doing, I don’t really see the point of that.”
Bikram yoga involves a set series of postures performed in a heated room.
“Bikram has developed this specific series so that it’s more accessible,” said Christopher Totaro, a Bikram Yoga NYC instructor. “It’s more palatable to a wider demographic of people by pulling that religious part or separating that religious part from it.”
Yoga students exercise at an Atlanta Hot Yoga class in Atlanta, Georgia. Classes are conducted in a room heated to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Among those that have taken up yoga in the United States are devout followers of Western religions.
Atlanta, Georgia’s Northside Drive Baptist Church holds a weekly yoga class.
Amanda Gregg, who instructs the class, says that she is respectful of Hinduism but argues that yoga didn’t “come from” Hinduism as much as it developed alongside the religious tradition.
“Although Hinduism and yoga grew out at the same time of the Indian subcontinent and there are references to yoga in the Upanishads and in the Bhagavad Gita, that doesn’t mean that Hinduism has the exclusive hold on yoga,” she said, referring to sacred Hindu texts. “Sort of like Jews don’t have the exclusive hold on prayer.”
Some churches attempt to “Christianize” yoga by adding Bible verses to the practice, but Northside Drive Baptist Church does not.
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Is Yoga a Form of Hinduism?
Is Hinduism a Form of Yoga?
– Wendy Doniger
Debates about these questions have been making headlines lately. Some American Hindus have argued that American yoga is not Hindu enough, that Hindus should “Take Back Yoga” (the label of a campaign by the Hindu American Foundation). Other Americans agree that the Hindus should take back yoga—but because yoga is too Hindu: R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, advises Christians to abandon yoga if they value their (Christian) souls, for “yoga, as a spiritual practice, runs directly counter to the spiritual counsel of the Bible.” The problem should not have been breaking news; a spoof in 2003, “Yoga: A Religion for Sex Addicts,” depicted a Christian minister who was asked, “Should Christians practice Yoga?” He replied, “Are we going to have to bring this whole thing up about Yoga again? I thought our Sunday school curriculum included lessons about the evils of everything Oriental, including Yoga!”
But the issues involved are not trivial. Is yoga, in fact, “a spiritual practice”? More particularly, is it a Hindu spiritual practice? The word “yoga” originally meant “yoking” horses to chariots or draft animals to plows or wagons (the Sanskrit and English words are cognate). Though many yoga practitioners, particularly but not only Hindus, insist that their practice can be traced back to the Upanishads (c. 600 BCE) and Patanjali (c. 200 CE), the word “yoga” in these texts designates a spiritual praxis of meditation conjoined with breath-control, “yoking” the senses in order to control the spirit, and then “yoking” the mind in order to obtain immortality.
Buddhist sources in this same period also speak of techniques of disciplining the mind and the body, and the word “yoga,” owing as much to Buddhism as to Hinduism, soon came to mean any mental and physical praxis of this sort. (Similar disciplines arose in ancient Greece and, later, in Christianity, a subject on which Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault had a great deal to say). This is the general sense in which the word “yoga” is used in the Bhagavad Gita, a few centuries later, to denote each of three different religious paths (the yoga of action, the yoga of meditation, and the yoga of devotion). But these texts say nothing about the physical “positions” or “postures” that distinguish contemporary yoga. The postures developed much later, some from medieval Hatha Yoga and Tantra, but more from nineteenth-century European traditions such as Swedish gymnastics, British body-building, Christian Science, and the YMCA, and still others devised by twentieth-century Hindus such as T. Krishnamacharya and B. K. S. Iyengar, reacting against those non-Indian influences.
So there is an ancient Indian yoga, but it is not the source of most of what people do in today’s yoga classes. Contemporary yoga traditions are a far cry both from the Upanishads and from Hatha Yoga. Most twenty-first century American yoga practitioners have more in common with a jogger than with a meditating sage; they want to relax after a hard day at the office, tighten up their abs, and reduce their cholesterol and their blood pressure; their yoga of relaxation and stretching may also involve regular enemas, a cure for back pain, a beauty regime, a vegetarian diet with a lot of yogurt (which is not etymologically related to “yoga”)–oh yes, and a route to God.
Is yoga, then, for the mind or for the body? Is it like going to church or like going to the gym? Is it a spiritual praxis or an exercise routine? To all these questions, the answer is: yes. For some people (both in India and in America) it has been one, for others, the other, and for many, both.
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