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“Man is troubled not by events, but the meaning he gives to them!” (Epictetus)
This autocephalous, US backed Ukrainian church has become the de facto church of the Ukrainian state and it should come as no surprise that it has been showing its fascist credentials from the very beginning. Churches have been confiscated from the legitimate church, ‘priests’ have led their support to the Nazi regiments, real worshippers intimidated (intimidation assisted by Eastern Rite Catholics), churches firebombed, clergy threatened (faeces thrown through the window of a priest’s house is a lovely Nazi touch). It has been spectacularly unsuccessful at recruiting people away from the canonical church, though there has been some success in the West of the country. This US backed church is big on ecumenicism and works happily with the Catholics. In the West it is viewed as legitimate by the ignorant and support for it is growing. Sadly, the Patriarchate of Alexandria also caved in and recognised it. This has led to massive problems throughout Africa with defections of clergy from Alexandria to Moscow (the only other patriarchate in the area) by priests who refuse to recognise the fascist church. These priests are being fined and persecuted, but they know the truth.
The attitude of the Buddha exists within the sacred space of this temple in a country which otherwise advocates a brutal and uncaring socio-economic ideology and society! The Buddha would never have accepted this system as being ‘valid’ or applicable for attaining and living with a healthy mind and body!
Why would a mainstream journal designed to deliver science to the masses willingly side with a fascist distortion of that science? The latest research to
A world rally against the efficacy of modern science (and particularly all the advances in medical thinking over the last two-thousand years), was held across
Translator’s Note: Ironically, Yanagi Ryuken was born in the USSR during 1941 and not in Japan. Indeed, he was born in those islands ‘North’ of Japan which