Thursday, November 4, 2010

Three capital ‘S’: sex, sects and…… stupidity


The other day, in Greece, someone must have woken up with a great surge of creativity and, after sitting at the computer, must have decided to make a new web site, a web site about the ‘Ashram of Shambala’, claiming to ‘reveal the whole truth about it’. Although the design is quite good, there is nothing original, really, about it; it is just a copy-paste - sometimes not so thorough -mainly of old articles published on other websites. Yet, it helps one making some ‘interesting’ points: firstly, how inaccurate self-claimed informers often are and, secondly, how much stupidity people can chew on in a day!!!
Obviously satisfied with this work of ‘art’, our creative genius and great ‘inquisitor’, holding a fag in one hand and a fresh cup of coffee in the other, must have immediately e-mailed the link of this site to a number of recipients; certainly a lot of unknown ones, as I also received it. Normally this kind of activity is regarded as ‘SPAM’ - a very serious internet crime - but, alas (!), this wise and courageous person, probably invested with God’s authority and protected by His blessings, must have felt that the old Machiavellian slogan, “ The ends justifies the means” had to apply in the present circumstances. After all, what is breech of the law, when one has the holy task of saving humanity from a terrible threat? So, in a courageous act of law infringement, the brave world- saviour must have decided to set out, disinterestedly, to denounce other people’s illegality …..


“Et voila! Le jeux est fait” must have exclaimed the self-declared croupier…..”Who knows what will happen? Where the ball will stop rolling? Yet, with such a massive e-mailing, chances are that things will work out as desired…..”
One of the most interesting accusations that this very informative site makes against the “leader of one of the most dangerous sects in the whole world” is that when the police broke into the premises of the ‘Ashram of Shambala’ it found in it not 1, not 2, not 3….. but 40 (!!!!) beautiful, almost naked women.
“What splendour!!!” they must have secretly thought!
Come on, Greek passionate men, the ‘best and most real’ men of the whole of Europe, how would you have felt? You would have been absolutely delighted, and the details of the scene, rather than raising disgust, in the days to follow would have been going from mouth to mouth….”What an amazing sigh, I was there!!!”
Not only Greek men, but most men in the world, live in the dichotomy: ‘manga’*: moral man, or better: secret ‘manga’, public moral man. Sex and naked bodies? Nooo!!!!!!!! They belong to a discourse built on the beach, to fantasies about blond Nordic beauties constructed behind thick and dark sunglasses, as fornication lurks in the most hidden –and not so hidden- recesses of minds. Some Greek men call Greece ‘a big bed’. They say this because, after the romantic “yes” of ‘wedding day’, most people here have the tendency to sleep around a fair bit. “How come this Guru seems to have what I would like to have??? Burn him to the rogue!” This is the image offered by the site, and some considerations emerging from it.
But…..there are other ways to look at this news: you and I are probably are not amongst the privileged ones who live in 1000sq.m houses. We belong to the crowd squeezed in 80sq.m. flats. Of course there are times when I or you are naked (right???). Still, if the bell rings, would you not immediately put something on unless…..? Well, obviously these 40 women wanted to thank the police for raiding the ‘ashram’….!!!
There is something ‘fishy’ about this report. Remember the recent case about a killer bullet bouncing off a footpath!!! Did you believe it? Of course not! When it comes to sects, accusations of ‘sexual nature’ seem to be the bullet bouncing off the pavement to make a kill!!!
Let’s have a close look at the ‘bullet’ then!

Will you, please go to the following link?


Hoops, another ‘sex’ scandal!
This time it involves the leader of a huge and respectable, Christian Orthodox country: Russia. Mr. Putin – in his concern for asserting his ‘virility’- does not feel any shame in showing off his ‘womanizer’s traits’. Is this what the 12 beautiful students of the Faculty of Journalism try to support in their leader when they give him his birthday present: a calendar exhibiting a ‘naked’ woman per each month of the year. Sexy holy month of Jesus’s birth, sexy holy month of Easter…. Mr. Putin, before going to ‘Resurrection/Anastasis celebration, as the legitimate head of a Christian Orthodox state …. fill your virile eyes with the image of splendid, slender legs in suspenders, of firm breast that hardly fit into a black sexy bras, of the captivating smile full of sexy promises....Of course you are not a charismatic man without political power…..
The sex ‘bullet’ of the inquisitor can hit the wall, and come straight back where this candid person above all suspicion sits looking satisfied at a just built website, that only denounces this person’s lack of discernment, logic evaluation and appraisal, bias and illegal spamming….



Sunday, October 10, 2010


“We have received the order to erase him from the face of the Earth!”

interesting video

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAvktEGevak&p=58E8C1C4B9FF5B0B&index=9&playnext=9

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Spiritual persecution and the rhetoric of freedom: contemporary man at a turning point






When in 1937 Russia started to clump down on religion, accusing not only high clergy, but also simple village priests, highly loved and respected in their community, of ‘espionage’ no one had imagine that they were about to witnessed one of the most furious attacks on people’s spirituality and freedom, typical of  the inquisition.  
Maxim Usov is a man of honour, a man of our times, and a highly educated being. Like many, at some point in his life, he could no longer ignore the impelling existential questions arising from an unknown, but increasingly hard to ignore, part of his being. After many years of search and inner work, he finally became a saddhak (student) of Teacher.   He is now a happy man, full of vigour and joy; he helps people to become also healthier, happier and more fulfilled.  His father and grand father had been presbyteries in the Evangelical Church of St. Petersburg.   They had been both very much loved  and respected, not only within the church community, but also by people who had very little to do with it;  everyone could appreciate kind words  of support  and care spoken at the right moment; everyone could enjoy a wise piece of advice, especially in the difficult times that characterise Russia in the thirties.  Then 1937 came, and with it the  one of the worse witch hunting campaign of modern times: believers started to be chased and accused of ‘espionage’ against the ruling leadership, who encouraged family members, neighbours  and children to spy on each other in order to gain their protection.  This is when Maxims’ grandfather was sent to prison for 25 years!!!  
Now, 2010: no one these days would believe that the Russian 1937 is back in all its vengeance, not only in Russia, but also in the rest of the great contemporary democratic world, violating both constitutional and human rights.
In Russia, the Perestroika had made people feel that a new time of personal freedom, creativity and opening to the new had come.  Yet, this ‘golden age’ was short lived. Nowadays, the clump down on free thinkers, on people who listen to the voice of their souls is harder, more subtle, more devious, evil than it had been in the thirties.
Ingo Kucherenko is no longer a young man, but one can see that his eyes are still full of life, his step quick and full of energy, his smile open like that of a child,  and his demure peaceful and composed.  He inspires a sense of trust and contentment in those who approach him. He talks with a measured , and yet extremely  warm voice, the voice of a man used to think before talking, the voice of a man who talks not only with his ‘head’, but also with his heart.  During the Perestroika, Ingo used to work as a TV reporter.  In this capacity, he had called on the screen hundreds of people, shown to the spectators hundreds of different realities, ways of living, beliefs, and spiritual tendencies. He had travelled gathering information in India, where he had interviewed Rajneesh (Osho), Sai Baba and many other leaders. In Russia, he had run a show called ‘The third eye’, and had invited many healers and Yogis, and even Russian pagans and shamans of the northern part of the country, to present their views, show their rituals and talk about their credo to the public.
Everything was wonderful: Russia was in bloom,  the debate was exciting, and people were alive, creative, trustful….In this climate of freedom, people’s  lives took on a new momentum: many opened to the call of their soul, flooding the official church, or finding their answers in other spiritual organisation. Many, as well as Ingo, found ‘Teacher’.
Suddenly things changed.
Ingo had been asked to cover a reportage on the Hare Krishna fellowship, thing that he had done with enthusiasm and interest: he had found out how these people believed in and preached for peace to reign on the whole planet, how they lived a pure and simple life of mediation and chanting; he had given them a voice to tell the stories of how unhappy they had been before: some lost in the grips of alcohol other in those of drugs. They told about their newly found life, of their happiness and contentment and then….the TV show was broadcasted!!! Horror: his work had been totally changed during the montage. Terrible words had been put in the mouth of these peaceful people!  Fake witnesses, people who claimed of having heard Hare Krishna fellows express the intention of wedging a terrorist attack against the state, has been added to the reportage. Ingo had never heard these words before, never seen these people before. The program he had so lovingly prepared had been totally manipulated, following the order of the new channel director: a dry man with a limited vision of the world, a man without culture and full of prejudice against spirituality and personal conscience, a man against freedom ….. Disgusted, he quit his job!
A new witch hunting campaign, sadly marking the beginning of this new century, not only in Russia but in the entire ‘democratic’ world, has started!!!
Modern and contemporary witches have been now re-baptised, their new name is ‘sectarians’, people who belong to a sect or a cult, a term which has very strange historical connotations as, the sects of the past are now religions in their full rights.
Sect is simply a ‘negative’ word that carries a lot of emotions, but  very little real meaning, except in the mouth of those who accuse others of being a ‘sect’. 
Derived from the Latin ‘secta’ meaning ‘manner, mode, following a school of thought’,  it took on a new meaning and a new etymology (!) in the 1570s to mean: ‘separately organised religious body’. This definition begs the question: separate from what? 
Why should anything be classified as being ‘separate’ from something else, and not as ‘something existing alongside’ something else?  And, of course, “How is it possible that in our highly democratic world - a world in which, constitutions mention ‘the right of people to happiness’, ‘to religious belief’ and ‘to personal freedom’ - people’s conscience is bent and killed? How is it that people, these days, are not only invited, but forced, to follow main stream beliefs, assumed ‘safer’ and ‘truer’. Again, this situation begs a further question: who defines what is ‘safer’ and ‘truer’?  What are the criteria of ‘safe’ and ‘true’?
It may be quite interesting and revealing to refer back to the New Testament, and read again and again the accounts of Jesus’ comments about the Pharisee and the old, stifled religion in vigour at His time, rooted more in form than belief. He warned many times, “Do not be like the Pharisees…” He was persecuted, accused of disrupting people’s true faith, and of heresy. He was captured, imprisoned, tortured and put to die on the cross, in between two criminals. The one, who was allowed to go free, was Barabbas, the killer, the rapist, the madman, and the most feared man in the whole   land.  
Jesus was ‘safer’ and ‘truer’, and much, much more, but He ended His Earthly life on the cross, with a spear in His flanks and a sponge full of vinegar in His mouth.  Since then, posterity has been left to wander, “Why? Why did it go like this?”  
In the ‘Sermon of the mountain’, He had said, “Blessed be the pure in heart, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of Heaven” (Mathew 5,6,7). Jesus knew that the time of persecution would come, not only for Him, but also for His followers, but He did not stop preaching, challenging the ‘status quo’, the established dead religion and political oppressive system, in which people lived. Not with arms, no!!! He attracted people with true love and compassion, with teachings and wisdom, with encouragement and blessings, sometimes even with scolding and asking for repentance. The “Kingdom of heaven’ will come” he had said, “and you will be there!”  
Today, Teacher  also says, “The Kingdom of God will soon come!”  Drug addicts, alcoholics, destitute women, sick people, scientists, medical doctors, healers, singer, actors, intellectuals, people from all walks of life  join in  enthusiastically, and change their life, from a miserable, meaningless event into a joyful adventure of discovery of oneself and of the whole world.
 Another question that might arise from the persecutions happening these days is, “Why are so many people flooding into the new spiritual movements? Is this a sign of mass schizophrenia, or the thermometer of the  ‘malaise’ of our time, from which people, disillusioned by more run of the mill religious denomination, seek something else that can truly be soothing for their hearts, mind and spirits. They seek something that gives true sense to this present existence,  that is an alternative to a  life spent only working, having a drink to relax in the evening,….a horrible routine of home-work-bed-home-work-bed, with a couple of days in between  (holy week-end!!!) to dream of what will never happen: fulfilling days of creativity and joy.   Where is the threat? What is threatened?
In these difficult time of degradation, bankruptcy, scandals involving both the clergy and politicians,  in these times of total destruction of nature, when the food we eat and the air we breath poison us, our saddhak are feeling better and better, healthier and healthier; they look younger and younger , and become more and more alive.
What is the threat, then??  That, by discovering more and more their talents, by becoming more and more able to discern what is good for them and what is not, by going for what they want in life (rather then settling for a mediocre job, a drunken husband and depression)   and by questioning the education of their children, who eventually will turn them into unhappy robots,  saddhaks are not easily swung by alluring advertisements and empty promises.  The knowledge acquired near the Teacher makes them stronger human beings, able to stand up in all circumstances, with a smile, but firmly. It makes them able to see through cheating and misleading information, aimed at bringing wealth to some and enslaving others.  It makes them able to ‘live in this world without being of this world’ and to live their spirituality, not as a ‘once a week duty’, but as something giving meaning to every action, every word, every moment and encounter.  
This is what people are looking for. This  is the kind of life many want. This are the teachings and the kind of experience they feel they need to live  with dignity.
This is why the school lead by Teacher will continue. It will continue, unafraid of persecution and bad gossip. The school will continue, no matter how great the attack from the dark forces is.  They can try to discredit the name of Teacher in TV broadcasts or in news papers, but the school will continue.
It will continue, because everywhere in the world, right now, people with many problems that could not find a solution before, are healed not only in their bodies, but also in their emotions, minds and souls.  It will continue because with the help of wise tutors or Teacher himself, people finally feel that someone cares, that someone thinks of them and helps them practically. It will continue, because people want it to: the school grows and grows and this cannot be stopped. This shows that it caters for people needs. Saddhaks coming from all over the  world,, through international events and at meetings with the two enlightened Masters, have now met each other, and have discovered the beauty and warmth of being part of a spiritual family, where everyone cares for the other and helps on the road of self perfection. 
Why persecuting happy, peaceful and spiritual people? “Blessed be the persecuted…., theirs will be the kingdom of heaven!!” Jesus had said. Why? Because, as in Jesus times, this is a sing that these teachings and knowledge are true, that they carry an impulse able to transform consciences, to change people’s inner world for the better and, as a result of this, their perception of the outer world. This is what thousands and thousands of people want! Persecution is not dialogue; persecution aims at the obliteration from the face of the Earth of everything that questions its ways, of everything that may present good alternative arguments as to how to solve human problems in a practical and demonstrable manner, as the transformation in the lives of thousands of saddhaks shows.
To all the saddhaks  is addressed the most powerful answer from Teachers who, feeling the pain and distress that they endure in these days, address  the Divine with their strong prayer, begging for the salvation of the souls, in the same way as Jesus  did in the Gethsemane gardens. 
At  the same time, Teachers have prepared a sacred place in order to save all those people, who have faith in them, to shelter them from all those who, like the Pharisee, cause trouble and harm to people’s impulse of coming closer to God! The Teachers will never abandon anyone on the side of the road, unlike what many others have done in spite of their claims to the contrary.
So, what is the treat?? Where is it coming from?

Inner Mongolia

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Every year more than 100 thousand people are announced to be missing. 20 thousand out of them are found shortly during a calendar year. Others are never found. This is a fact. So what this fact has to do with amateur theatrical activities of innovators?
Alexander Dvorkin, media and police as hypocritical defenders of morality try to put the responsibility for social problems on a man who is capable of supporting 40 women.
30 of September 2010 police and special intelligent services entered the cottage in the outskirts of Novosibirsk with coarse language and put on the floor facedown 40 unarmed women. It is unclear what were the Russian authorities so frightened of, that made them unlawfully arrest 43 year old Konstantin Rudnev. 
Russian special services are searching for one of the witnesses giving evidence on the internet against Konstantin Rudnev: “he is abusing a cat in a cage”. While it is known that lots of science institutions are working for special intelligent cervices in which hundreds of people in white overalls are abusing and torturing hundreds and thousands of animals. Parts of these obscenities are filmed (for scientific purposes). So what?

They call the author of “Way of the fool” an organiser and spiritual leader of non totalitarian, non-sect) theatrical group “Ashram Shambhala” (“Esoteric Ashram Shambhala”, “Russian Academy of happiness”, “School of Shambhala”, “Belovodie”, “Altair”, “Way to happiness” and other). He is charged with creating in year1989 (!!!) a religious group allegedly limiting people’s rights and freedom. People in blue uniform (Police) accused him on TV of sexual abuse. Wow!
This time (the press service of police force announces with relief) they found drug in his possession (planted by police) and this is the only thing he can be charged with. It is an interesting fact. In 2004 in “Russian newspaper” there was a brutish material by Nina Ruzanova (Novosibirsk) “Way of fools. Another attempt to charge the “great guru” Konstantin Rudnev”. So this article was placed in sections: Siberia/ Novosibirsk region Siberia/ Novosibirsk society/ Social block/ Religion of events/ Criminality/ Drug trade. It means that far before the easily forecasted events of the autumn 2010 any journalist in the region knew that sooner or later they will plant a white package to the leader of the group. This is a pattern of the law enforcing organs.    
Such a break for police! The owner was found in his brick house! During the search some printed materials were found and confiscated as well as some audio and video materials and documents…” “This is real pornography”, said the priest of “Alexander Nevsky” cathedral.
While the man is behind the bars some female students of journalism course in Moscow University prepared a birthday present for a Russian politician. It would be hard to combine these two events in time more successfully. The brave students posed naked for an erotic calendar, joyfully announced the press-secretary of youth pro-Kremlin political movement. Does this mean that eroticism is in favour? Does this mean that the authorities are not against erotic initiative? 
At the end of eighties Konstantin Rudnev rightly felt in young women the desire to become an actress. But not all young women could get into drama schools and moreover into the professional industry, while the amateur movement in Russia had failed. So Konstantin Rudnev gave a proper shape and form to an unorganized movement. Therefore “adepts of the “Ashram” worshiped the teacher and no one wanted to testify against him!”
Konstantin Rudnev is the only Stanislavski that the Russians deserve in the 21 century. Sooner or later Russia is going to loose the repertoire theatre, but it is impossible to prohibit the theatrical activities with ritualistic elements. The stronger the TV’s subculture the bigger effect on the viewer any theatrical initiative will have. This is the expected progress of our society. And foolish is the one who thinks that cultural progress can happen while obeying the moral normative.
Soviet actor Igor Dmitriev (1927 – 2008) in his life committed actions that could satisfy masochistic urges of any moralist or sectologist.
Soviet drama teacher Arkady Katsman (1921-1989) was communicating with his students in a way that would make an onlooker run for help to the animal rights society…. Video clips of Konstantin Rudnev strongly resemble Arkady Katsman’s manners of communication. Even the intonation is the same!
Compare the life of Konstantin Rudnev with the creative work of Anton Adasinsky, the founder of the group DEREVO (tree). They are of the same type. It is just that during his visit to Petersburg in 2007 Anton Adasinsky complained that he was abandoned by everyone apart from two of the most faithful women. But there is no shortage of women around Konstantin Rudnev. This is a theatrical avant-garde. It is just that DEREVO came out of “Licedey” and the crowd understands this kind of art. But the quest of Konstantin Rudnev appeared to be above the scale. I think that Anton Adasinsky is worth the same as Konstantin Rudnev. There is just one difference though – Anton Adasinsky made a couple of million dollars on imitating “Licedeev” and parasitizing on music. It is sad, but it’s a fact. 

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Osho

Question - What can a Guru do for you?



Osho - The question is from Vidya's mother, Sigrid. She must be worried about Vidya, about what is happening to Vidya here. And, deep down, she is nagging Vidya and trying to take back. It is natural, nothing is wrong in it; a mother, after all, is a mother. The mother loves, cares, and because you love and you care you become afraid also - what is happening to your child here? Hence the question, "What can a guru do for you?
A guru can do two things: he can undo you and re-do you. He can destroy you and give you a new life. A guru is a cross and a resurrection. Those who come here and remain outsiders will only see the cross of the guru, because the resurrection is an inner experience. The cross is an outside thing. Have you not watched in the story of Jesus? - when he was crucified, thousands of people witnessed it. It was simple.
There was no need for any inner insight to witness Jesus being crucified. Thousands of people, ordinary people who had never seen Jesus, who had just come out of curiosity, all witnessed the crucifixion. But when Jesus got resurrected NOT EVEN HIS OWN DISCIPLES could recognize him immediately. Mary Magdalene was the first to recognize. That is symbolic: that means you need a feminine heart, an intuitive heart, to recognize resurrection.



Then Jesus went to find his disciples. They had all escaped thinking, "Now all is finished!" They waited, hiding behind the crowds. They had waited for the moment because they were hoping that some miracle would happen. The miracle DID happen, but to see the miracle these ordinary eyes are not enough. These ordinary eyes can only see the UNdoing. To see the re-doing you will need another kind of eyes.
The miracle DID happen, I say to you! - but nobody could see it because nobody was ready to see it, nobody was mature enough to see it. Jesus went in search of his disciples after his resurrection. He found two disciples; they were going to another village. He walked with them for four miles, talked with them for four miles, and they did not recognize him. This seems to be so improbable, but it happened.
He was walking with them, he was talking with them, and they could not see who had come. They thought he was a stranger. In fact, Jesus remained a stranger to these people even when he was alive. Their recognition was superficial.



So those who come here just as outsiders will simply see demolishing, will simply see undoing, will simply see that people are being destroyed, mind-washed, hypnotized - and they will see all kinds of things, all kinds of negative things. They will not be able to see the positive. For the positive you will have to become part, a participant. You will have to fall en rapport with me. You will have to come within me and you will have to allow me within you; then you will be able to see what a Master can do.
If you really want to understand it, then become a disciple! Then come closer to a Master. And I am not saying to come closer to me, but any Master! Go and find your Master, but come closer. Understanding one Master, you will have understood all Masters, past, present and future, because the work is the same. The work is to destroy the disciple so much so that the disciple disappears as a disciple and appears as a Master in his own right. That's what a Master can do: he can make you a Master.