But yes, a lot of it is cheesy crap. The thing is, they have removed most of the good stuff and are selling mostly the cheesy crap on their website.

Ah well, it’s all a matter of taste.

Yeah, right, pull the other one, it has gangrene on it.

Lokesh is absolutely spot on. If you can’t see that Shantam largely deserves what he gets then I suggest your perception has been clouded by whatever negative influences have been affecting you over the years, in this case evoking an inappropriately exaggerated ‘compassion’: “Oh, he’s being heavily criticised, made fun of – therefore he must be a ‘victim’ (like me) and they must be wrong.”

Why does Shantam carry on, knowingly inviting such ridicule? Probably because he really believes he’s on the right track, ie with both Osho and ‘God’ on his side (not to mention all those Indian ‘followers’ on facebook, equally hungry for a traditional Indian-style ‘religious’ framework).

Thus, his otherwise rather pointless existence is given ‘meaning’: in his eyes, he’s a sort of ‘martyr’ for a righteous cause and he translates the attention, however critical, however full of ridicule, into evidence of his ‘importance’; the conflict makes him feel like ‘someone’. Hence this is something he’s driven to do all the time, keeping the whole obsessional pot boiling to keep such internal psychological ‘benefits’ recurring.

Add a native stubbornly combative bone-headedness and a skewed intelligence that seems to have little developed capacity to see through itself and you get a perfect recipe for ongoing, well-meaning, righteous stupidity.

I mean, removing all of the devotional music from the `Resort`, (if this has indeed been the case) , does seem like a very strange idea to me, such music I would say was the heart of sannyas and was always a enjoyable in Buddha Hall.

And charging exorbitant entry fees does seem a little disgusting, if the price has indeed multiplied manifold as much as you claim it has in the last ten years or so.

But why go on and on about the place again and again? Is it really that important? I mean, if Buddha`s teaching had been confined to Bihar, to some Sangha in Bihar, then there would have never been any Tao, or any Tibetan Buddhim, no Tibetan Tantra or any Zen.

Things have to move and change.

At any rate, the place is bound to end up in the hands of the Indians again sooner or later. But it will never be exactly the same as it was when you were there in 1988-90. How could it be?

Does it really matter?

Amrito and Jayesh are stepping down at the Resort.

Watch this space!

We don´t meet according to that point, Lokesh; as for me such understanding is one thing and reacting verbally is quite slippery ground.

You live on a small island, you say. If visitors come, most of them come for holidays and recreation and entertainment.

I live in a crowded place of a European city and have to face in body, mind, soul and in everyday terms, trespassing, robbery, up to rape and not at all rare violence of all kinds.

Quite common and increasing is in the minds of those kind of actors that the victim has “asked” for it.

It’s a very slippery ground, to say the least. We don´t meet here. Sorry.

Madhu