Dee Mon писал(а):Сладкий компот-компиляция на тему восточной духовности от Ошо нравится многим, но я бы осторожнее относился к учению человека, имевшего массу проблем с законом в разных странах (вплоть до запрета въезда в ряд стран Европы и отсидке в американской тюрьме), окружившего себя коммуной поклонников и сотней роллс-ройсов, и подсевшего на валиум и веселящий газ.
В общем, прежде, чем восторгаться книгами Ошо, полезно изучить его биографию (желательно, не по его книгам). Если такой учитель вам по душе - тогда пожалуйста.
По поводу Тхеравады в Москве, то, похоже, есть только группа по Випассане системы бирманского мастера Гоенки
http://www.russian.dhamma.org/
и Буддийская Ассоциация Тэравадинцев Москвы "Буддийский Центр - Три Драгоценности" (сайта нет, могу дать контакты).
По практике медитации к тхераваде очень близок Дзен, он уже в Москве гораздо лучше представлен.
In 1981, Rajneesh went to the United States in search of better medical care (he suffered from diabetes and severe back problems) and also, allegedly, to escape tax evasion charges in India. His followers, at his request, bought (for US$6 million) a ranch in Wasco County, Oregon, previously known as "The Big Muddy", but later renamed Rajneeshpuram where they settled for the next several years.
At its largest, Rajneeshpuram consisted of some 7,000 members on a 6.25-square-mile ranch 10 miles from Antelope. It included homes, meditation centers, its own road system, power grid, bus service, schools for children, and a small airport.
Disagreements over zoning rules and building codes in the beginning continued to escalate between not only his followers and the inhabitants of Wasco County, but eventually with the rest of the state. His followers, known as Rajneeshees, settled en bloc in Antelope, Oregon, and were able to elect a majority of the town council. They did this after the incorporation of Rajneeshpuram as a city was invalidated by the Oregon Legislature.
Comments by his public spokeswoman, Ma Anand Sheela, only increased tensions. Matters were not helped by Rajneesh's vow of silence, or the 93 Rolls-Royces his followers bought him as gifts - they said that he wanted 365 cars so that he had a new one for each day of the year (technically, he did not have income or own any property). One of his followers explains this in what is called "Face to Faith Parable of the Rolls Royces." When the Rajneeshees subsequently recruited homeless people from across the United States to settle at Rajneeshpuram, it was widely seen as an attempt to use the ballot box to seize control of Wasco County.
In 1984, a bioterrorist attack involving salmonella typhimurium contamination in the salad bars of the 10 restaurants at The Dalles, Oregon, was traced to the Rajneeshee group.[1][2] The attack sickened about 750 people and hospitalized forty-five; none died. It was the first known bioterrorist attack of the 20th century in the United States, and is the largest germ warfare attack in U.S. history. Eventually Sheela and Ma Anand Puja, one of Sheela's close associates, confessed to the salmonella attack (the test run of a plan to incapacitate large numbers of Wasco County residents on an upcoming election day) and to attempted poisonings on county officials.
In May 1985, Sheela called a meeting of Rajneesh's inner circle to plot the assassination of Charles Turner, the U.S. Attorney for Oregon, after the attorney was appointed to head a grand jury investigation into the commune. Catherine Jane Stubbs, known as Ma Shanti Bhadra, volunteered to be the killer. She later bought weapons and scouted Turner's property.
In September 1985, Sheela quit her post as Rajneesh's secretary, and fled to Europe, allegedly with a large amount of the commune's money. After she and twenty of her confederates left, Rajneesh called for an investigation of what she had been doing, during which some of the foregoing came to light.
In late October 1985, Rajneesh was arrested in North Carolina as he was allegedly fleeing the U.S. Though his lawyers had approached the federal grand jury in Portland, Oregon that was about to secretly indict Rajneesh and some of his followers for alleged immigration crimes, and offered for him to be available to them, that offer was refused. Soon after, a Wasco County grand jury returned indictments against Sheela and two others, charging them with the attempted murder of Swami Devaraj, Bhagwan's personal doctor. Rajneesh, on advice of his lawyers entered an "Alford plea," or no-contest plea, in regard to the immigration crimes, and was given a suspended sentence on condition that he leave the country
