Giten Attacked by the Sannyas Movement

 
GITEN ON SPIRITUAL ORGANIZATIONS 
 

 
  
It seems that the sannyas movement has not developed since Osho died. I posted info about my book “The Silent Whisperings of the Heart” on the Facebook group “The Sannyas Network” as an invitation to sincere seekers. Instead this info was meet by an unconcious mob of ten people, who wrote quite ugly, judgemental and stupid comments about me and the book, projecting their ideas and judgements, ridiculing me and trying to make me wrong. It was the same arguments and judgements that I heard 20 years ago from the Osho Center in Stockholm. It also seems like the Osho Ashram in Pune has become a fascism, where courageous and authentic seekers of truth get throwned out if they speak the truth. 
 
It was only the eleventh commentater on “The Sannyas Network” who showed any intelligence, saying that Osho wanted people to share their love and truth in the world, but when people tried to do that in the sannyas movement they were put down, judged and ridiculed by other people.
 
I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in investigating what it means to live with open eyes. People in spiritual organizations also tend to get caught in their ideas of how it should be, and in the need of the ego to create hierachies of power, status, roles, norms and conformity. 
 
I remember when a meditation center in Stockholm was spreading quite insane rumours about me. I confronted this meditation center about spreading these rumours, but to this day no one has taking any responsiblity for their own actions – and this was people that I thought was friends on the path of love and truth. A friend of mine also told me that she had to tell the leaders of this meditation center to stop spreading rumours about me and tell them directly that “Giten is a friend of mine and it does not feel good that you are spreading rumours about him.”
 
 To be spiritual does not mean to belong to a spiritual group. I felt earlier that I had grown out of the kindergarten of a spiritual organization, and my inner tree was bearing fruit. Too many large trees can not grow in a narrow area. A friend also came with good advice during this period: “Go ahead without looking back, let others do their thing, that is their choice and freedom – you do need their limitation.”
 
More than 20 years ago, one of my mentors in life said something that I have had reason to remember during the years that I have worked with people. He said: “Spiritual Masters teach on many different levels at the same time. Some people take what they can, and some take something deeper”.
 
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GITEN ON SPIRITUAL ORGANIZATIONS:
AGRESSOR, DENIER AND VICTIM
 

During the weekend the Facebook group “The Sannyas Network” has been attacking me since I posted info about my book “The Silent Whisperings of the Heart”. Yesterday the member of “The Sannyas Network”, Red Herling, called me “a complete idiot”, while another guy entusiastically was cheering him on. This situation is a reminder of high school, but this is the situation in the sannyas movement 2012. I also sent out a comment and a transcript of this attack on me to Osho centers and media – and the response was total silence. Even my friends responded today to this with total silence.
 
It is not many things that modern psychology agress upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that people in groups become more stupid. Individually people are more intelligent, because they have to take their own responsibility, but in a group they do not have to take the same responsibility.
 
The two basic power strategies to try to manipulate and gain control over another person are: silencing and attacking. Silencing means to not listen to, to exclude or ignore and not respect a person. Attack can both mean to attack a person directly or to try to discredit a person through lies, to ridicule a person or by spreading malicious rumours.
 
All organizations are more or less dysfunctional. In a dysfunctional group, the members of the group play three different roles: agressor, denier and victim. The agressor is the role that attack and ridicule people, the denier never knows what is going on, there is “no body at home”, and the victim is the resultat of these two roles.
 
It is always easier to follow a group without awareness, than to follow your own heart, to trust your own intelligence, love, truth and creativity.”
 
 

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