US
(the film)
I do not exist alone. I am just a patches of many influences. City, school, collage, parents, friends, books, films, music, artists, authors, literature, language, space, places...the list is endless. this experimental film is about the visual and sound influences I have been living with for years. And the people and influences I have been gathering during my stay in Germany and travel to other countries. Life is all bout US. This is also about our taboos and fear- we avoid.
Ravi with wife Uma
Bed on the boat in Stockholm
We all need bed to sleep
Baumkuchen in Salzwedel
Gate to the other side
Oskar's first day at kindergarten
Frank Platte
German mother and child
Vincent got married in Indian vadic tradition in Salzwedel
Vincent got married in Indian vadic tradition in Salzwedel
Monika & Michael practice Indian tradition of meditation
We are trying to present a new synthesis between East and West. The eastern methods are more
individualistic, more inward-going, and more concerned with solitude, aloneness, and the person.
They are meditative methods, more concerned with the person and his integrity. They are not group
methods.
The western methods are all group methods, and are more out-going, more concerned with
communication and relationships; with the group, and integrity in relationships, not in aloneness.
So what they can be reduced to is: the western methods are more concerned with love, the eastern
methods more with meditation.
These are the two polarities of human consciousness – love and meditation. Meditation means to
be alone, as if you alone exist. And love means that you are not, the other is; as if you exist only
in relation to the other, and there is no other exiStence. These are the two Polarities. and taken
separately they both become extremes, and both are dangerous.
The East has tried the first extreme – of meditation. It became life-negating and escapist – hence
the poverty, the ugliness. There has been no scientific progress in the East, because nobody has
paid any attention to society. All those who were interested in any search always escaped
In the West, the society has progressed. There is a better standard of living, more affluence and
comfort, more convenience, more health, and more life. But they have moved to the other extreme
and the individual has by and by disappeared.
individualistic, more inward-going, and more concerned with solitude, aloneness, and the person.
They are meditative methods, more concerned with the person and his integrity. They are not group
methods.
The western methods are all group methods, and are more out-going, more concerned with
communication and relationships; with the group, and integrity in relationships, not in aloneness.
So what they can be reduced to is: the western methods are more concerned with love, the eastern
methods more with meditation.
These are the two polarities of human consciousness – love and meditation. Meditation means to
be alone, as if you alone exist. And love means that you are not, the other is; as if you exist only
in relation to the other, and there is no other exiStence. These are the two Polarities. and taken
separately they both become extremes, and both are dangerous.
The East has tried the first extreme – of meditation. It became life-negating and escapist – hence
the poverty, the ugliness. There has been no scientific progress in the East, because nobody has
paid any attention to society. All those who were interested in any search always escaped
In the West, the society has progressed. There is a better standard of living, more affluence and
comfort, more convenience, more health, and more life. But they have moved to the other extreme
and the individual has by and by disappeared.
These two things taken separately are dangerous, because life exists in polarity. The whole
emphasis here is that there are no opposites, there are only complementary.
So meditation and love are not opposites, they are complementary. All religion should be life-affirming,
and life should be meditative.
So we are trying to create a synthesis, and it is not only an ideology – because that is not difficult.
This synthesis is really in the being of people who come here. A new synthesis is being tried and
much depends on it.
A world psychology has to be given birth to.
emphasis here is that there are no opposites, there are only complementary.
So meditation and love are not opposites, they are complementary. All religion should be life-affirming,
and life should be meditative.
So we are trying to create a synthesis, and it is not only an ideology – because that is not difficult.
This synthesis is really in the being of people who come here. A new synthesis is being tried and
much depends on it.
A world psychology has to be given birth to.
The East has succeeded in certain ways and failed in
others, just as the West has failed in certain areas but succeeded in others.
others, just as the West has failed in certain areas but succeeded in others.
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