Anatoliy Obraztsov
Life does not offer answers: it prefers to ask questions. If you succeed in finding the most important question, the rest will follow. In the course of 45 years Anatoliy kept going towards his most important question: he practiced Oriental martial arts, he did science, he was a major Komsomol leader, he was a businessman and a politician. However, it was in the Kiev prison where Anatoliy was held for five years awaiting verdict that he finally discovered this question: Who am I?
Since that moment he went through the experience of meditative death; he wrote a dozen of books about being and the place of the human being in it; and he changed the fate of many people who crossed his path. Anatoliy is willing to share with anyone who is searching and even with those who do not yet know that they are: that they are on “the way of the heart”.
Anatoliy has at his disposal many meditative practices which were created by humanity at various stages, beginning from the very beginning. He claims nothing as his own achievement and prefers to be an ordinary man but at the same time he literally draws people to himself. To put it in Anatoliy’s words, “In its spiritual search humanity has accumulated a tremendous experience with practices, methods, and means. They all offer an entrance to meditation. There is, however, only one which is best suited to the concrete searcher: the way of the heart. But it is not easy to single it out in the great variety.”
The Center for spiritual development “The Way of the Heart” provides the help for making this choice. It was created by Anatoliy and a group of his fellow-travelers: people in search of themselves. This center, Anatoliy claims, is incompatible with sectism, dogmatism, and fanaticism; it does not reject searching in any form. Once you are here, you can choose amongst the many entrances the one that suits you and you only. There are the dynamic methods; the mirror, color, musical, and aroma settings; the entrances of silence, darkness, and infinity; the practice of yoga, tantra, Dao, Zen; the ways of smart doing and the Sufi traditions.
In fact, “The Way of the Heart” is a complex of methods allowing every person to develop harmoniously, no matter what their faith or their physical and mental condition. To promote this, a number of organizational structures have been created: the center, an international charity foundation, a Ukrainian social movement, etc. The task of the center for spiritual development is to conduct research, organize seminars, training sessions, practices, etc. The task of the foundation is to engage in charities and education (involving a publishing house, a TV channel, etc.). The social movement brings together people who are searching, who want to know themselves and find the way of the heart. Anatoliy is confident that once people know how to manage their own resources, they will be able to make progress in any sphere of life.
The center is under construction in an ecologically pure and energetically beneficial forest location on a river bank near the town of Verhnedneprovsk. Until the construction is finished, practices are being held in the Dnepropetrovsk center for human knowledge “Consciousness.”
RSS: