This Anon comment on the last Chi-Ting post was so good we had to repost it:
Don't be fooled by John de Ruiter. He has has own special take on everything which he calls his "knowing". He is completely in love with his tender Christ like image sprinkled with serious academic philosophy. He will weave a poetic rhetoric that sounds impressive but has no meaning at all. He promises everything and gives nothing. His true message is: he loves himself and he wants you to love him too. Coming from an orthodox Dutch Christian community (Amish Style) in the Canadian mid west, he dropped out of priest college to the shock of his bible ranting family and decided to become his own "fisher of men and women". He has his own unique mystical ideas about Ramana and the mountain but his domain is firmly established in Edmonton, Alberta where he keeps his cult following on a very short leash. His regular trips around the world are recruitment drives for his cult. John realized that most of his loyal followers will have a use by date when they finally get to see that its all only about John and his Edmonton home. So its important for him to always keep a flow of fresh followers coming in to keep the wheels rolling smoothly and his position and status asurred. He only came to hear about Ramana and Arunachala from a group of disgruntled Osho disciples who advised him that if he wanted to expand his little Edmonton Christian bookshop cult, he should go visit Pune and later on Tiruvanamalai. So he took the advice, he went forth and multiplied. It is no surprise that a decade later, John is returning to his old hunting ground. So watch out readers, he could be hunting for you!
At the end of this month John de Ruiter is returning to Tiruvannamalai. We think this tells you all you need to know.
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To call de Ruiter a "non duality purveyor" is a falsehood. His teachings are highly dualistic and really a kind of Christianity redux. Truth and untruth, ok-ness and not-ok-ness, surrender and insistence, hardening vs softening, opening vs. closing, all of which equate with "good and evil" in de ruiter's philosophy. It's not a big surprise that no one has pointed this out, however, because even his followers don't seem to know what he is talking about. They have just learned to parrot his words. And since they are in a worshipful relationship to de Ruiter, they seem happy just to soak up his emanations and keep sucking on the teat of "truth" - laced with whatever "distortions" de Ruiter is carrying around.
ReplyDeleteWill his satsangs be at Anantha Niketan, the facility that is adjacent to the Singing Heart Ashram in Tiruvannamalai? If so beware. Gopi and Chitra who own Anantha Niketan became de Ruiter's disciples and were sponsored by him to Canada on the care-giver visa (Nanny or Domestic help or Au pair visa). They must now be eligible to become permanent residents of Canada and in a few year collect Canada Pension Plan that they would have contributed very little to.
ReplyDeleteI know a few people who have had a really bad experience with Gopi and Chitra. So beware folks. Don't give them donations so they can look after the village folk. Once your back is turned, they turn into really obnoxious souls and treat the local elders really badly. In India there is no accountability for such behaviour and your money would have gone to support it. Something to think about.
The meetings are at Sri Seshadri Swamigal Ashram in the centre of the Ramana Nagar area. Anantha Niketan is about 10 miles out of town. But don't worry the Seshadri restaurant has the reputation as being one of the most poisonous eateries in town. As Satsang Barbie found out at Ramana Towers, dodgy bacteria can kill all spiritual ambition!
DeleteAppreciate the warning about the poisonous status of the Seshadri eatery ... I know you're not a dedicated restaurant reviewer (R.Clarke has a firm grip on it in his pudgy hands) but you could nevertheless use your good offices to inform us of a joint or 2 about town where we're least likely to expose ourselves to crippling gastric distress. Are there any bacteria friendly saloons in Tiru where we could feel safe?
DeleteIt's a game of Russian roulette wherever you go! The Dreaming Tree is currently the best of the western style eateries in Ramana Nagar.
DeleteNo there are no safe eateries in Tiru or India. Just eat well cooked food, no coconut chutney ie cold preparations made with local water, and avoid salads. You will then be 50% less likely to get very sick.
DeleteThe 50% odds of surviving an Indian meal is a useful ball park estimation backed up by a recent incident, in which a post-orgy banquet at the Singing Heart ashram left in its wake many a participant stricken with cryptosporidium ... All their nosh was well cooked ... so how do you account for that one?
DeleteThanks whoever for this timely information. I was just in town (Tiru) and saw his poster on the rip-off supermarket's board (11/01/14).
ReplyDeleteJust figured out after 5 minutes looking into this entity's eyes who or what he is... a CYBORG (both bio and electrical mass); and I think built on the Pleiadian blueprint/template. The Pleiadians are well know for controlling people by dispensing half truths, this way always keeping the people confused, off balance, and easily controlled forcing the sheep to return to their master for safety, security and guidance.
Churned out of Universities only a few of us have read Kafka. But kafkaesque situations, corporations and new age teachers are only too happy to entrap us in a maze of false ideas, cloud our judgement. Careful if you chance upon the all knowing de Ruiter, the most boring of teachers and I mean boring in looks and speech. de Ruiter wants to change bland to brand and expand his empire
ReplyDeleteDe Ruiter's reported dalliance with 2 sisters must have caused considerable anguish to his wife. This is one temptation our budding Christ is known to have succumbed to. The last one is bound to occur during his Tiru jaunt when a possible mass defection by Waldman's nubiles to de Rooter's camp will test his resolve in resisting their charms. Should he fail the test, we will conduct a suitable passion scene for him in a nearby crucifixion lane behind Saradama's place, preferably on Shivaratri. Who will be assigned to wield the spear of destiny?
ReplyDeleteRadha Ma loyalist Charlotte Psycho-Sister would be a good choice - she likes sticking the knife in!
DeleteWe know we're in trouble when .... there's a massive gap between rich and poor! Endless ’bread and circus’ entertainments! False teachers gather and prosper in the name fame game! The list could go on but to reduce adviata to 'do nothing', prattle on 'about nothing' giving the gullible groupies fleeting eye contact and this is now considered a teaching! These greedy blow-ins should take a leaf out of the book of the humble Dobri Dobrev the wonderful old beggar. Humble ... whats that?
ReplyDeleteHere is Mooji's lost brother... he will be holding Satsang in T.V. Mali this Feb. Maybe he can burn some of the dung around here. Click here
ReplyDeleteAll this guru moksha, bhakti, bakshish business is an endless hoax, unravelling in our time by those willing to confront these fraudsters and expose their deceitful ways. Peter Lamont in his 'the rise of the Indian rope trick' is an object lesson in how easy it is to fool the gullible who get easily mesmerised by all things magical or supernatural. India's image as the keeper of humanity's esoteric flame has received a severe bruising in recent times and exposed all the underlying flim-flam. It was basically built on the headlong rush for a cultural East-West fusion - only serving to create a psychic alloy with the attributes of donkey-rat-hyena. The malleable dope who at the same time possesses cunning and uses ruthless savagery to achieve his self serving ends ... The projection of Hinduism on to the West (beginning with the westward travels of Indian swamis of Vivekananda, Yogananda etc) in due course increased the level of debasement, corruption and misrepresentation ... It reached its peak during the tragi-comic 3-ring circus presided over by Rajneesh. That flood gate once breached was impossible to stem: the unscrupulous vie with each other for the cashed up misty-eyed seekers.
ReplyDeleteSomething to ponder at the next advaita toilet party!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the 'speed of consciousness' and have you ever measured 'It'?
I have been told today by the police that AGHORI (Kenneth), Have left his body.... So no more shall we read his comments... Hope that we will send him a good thought, or so thing like that.....
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What is the matter? Do all Chi-Ting blog commentators meet an untimely death? First Radha Ma, then Sunanda, then Sister Klaus, now Aghori? O dear! I must stop posting to this blog
ReplyDeleteIt's a bit like that TV series The Following. I'm still trying to find out what happened to Aghori, but I know he had heart problems. Sad really, it only seems like yesterday that he was cheerfully calling John de Ruiter a Pleiadian cyborg and now we will never see his psychedelic turban in Ramana Nagar again!
DeleteThat's not all ... Myles O'Blarney, Firefly and Lucrezia Borgia have also mysteriously disappeared from the comments scene. They might be dead or spending their last years in a loony bin, but for sure, writing comments in this blog is absolutely lethal! Only our brave Master goes forth on his wooden horse - undaunted and undismayed - fighting windmills and other rare phenomena probably to his last breath to keep us poor and deluded souls on the right track.
DeleteObesity Fighter was the best of the bunch. Did he choke on a Big Mac?
DeleteIt's a new twist to renunciation! 'Sadhus dwelling in the pathways of Tiruvannamalai have applied en masse for inclusion of their names in electoral roll'. What sort of inducement have the politicians promised these poor pavement dwellers?
ReplyDeleteI am still here O Beloved Master. But I regret to inform you that the Missus is not well at all. She has been admitted to our local A & E. As we speak she is on life-support due to multiple organ failure - from obesity of course. She completely lost control and went on eating and eating and vomiting and vomiting until her body gave out. It was truly heart breaking to see her going down the drain like this. I am distressed and dismayed, because as you know, without her I am nothing. I am a no-brainer, a stupid couch-potato. I can only write my humble offering to your splendid blog with her angelic spirit hovering over me. What to do, Master? I wish Myles was here to give me some heartwarming and uplifting advice, but I guess he drowned in the River Liffey on his way home after a night of heavy drinking. Maybe you can contact your friend John de Ruiter and ask him to send some good vibrations my way. I have heard that he has the gift of magical long distance healing for his poor and destitute devotees. Maybe his immense kindness could save the Missus and my life.
ReplyDeleteYour humble footstool, OF.
Fatty! We missed you! And your timing is terrible: if only you'd got in touch a few hours earlier I could have set you up with a groovy granny at the oldster rave at the Rice Mill! You blew it and you're stuck in intensive care with that lump of lard you married! Did you take out any insurance on the Missus like Walmart does with its morbidly obese employees? - Well, if you did, come on over to the Chi-Ting compound and I'll help you spend it. As for the Missus, when she finally chokes on her last supersize, we can always shove her into recycling or feed her to the Tamil dogs! They'll be happy for weeks!
DeleteJohn still seems to be haunted by the ghosts of sexual transgressions past. Benita von Sass "... alleges that Mr. de Ruiter told her to 'sexually submit to him,' saying that it was 'God’s will.' He claimed to be 'Christ on earth,' Benita’s affidavit reads, and 'defying him was to defy truth, goodness and God. Accordingly, I obeyed and submitted.'" Nothing like a love triangle gone wrong! Click here to see the full article from the National Post. Also check out this meister work from Lorin Roche - The Vampire-like Nature of Gurus.
ReplyDeleteDear Obesity Fighter,
ReplyDeleteIt was painful for me to read your description of the final days and the sad present situation of your loyal eating partner, who was for you a treasured person I am sure, a rare person who had also been “the brains of your family” for nigh all these years. Together you must have shared many a delicious meal and midnight snack together, not to mention, of course, those chocolate syrup and whipped creame Tantric orgies you carried out for endless hours on your oversized waterbed.
I do not have any advice or help to give you. We are having our own problems with our aging people here in God’s Emerald Island. For example click ***HERE***
It is difficult for me to follow the goings on in Tiruvannamalai from my home here in Tipperary, but the Tai-Ching Master is faring marvelously well it seems what with his regular new postings on FaceBook.
All the best,
Myles
But he looks so peaceful and spiritual.
ReplyDeleteJolicoeur is at it! Click here.
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