The eighth session of 59th round of the Academy Branch Workshops was held on 28 June, 2017 at 11:10 a.m., this meeting was held by Master Dezhakam as the master and Mrs. Zahra as the secretary and the weekly agenda was "Ice and its destructions"
Master Dezhakam: Hello friends, I am Hossein, a traveler. I hope you are all fine, thank God, I am fine too.
Happy Fitr Eid (feast) to you all. No prayer is made futilely, especially in our own religion. Prayers are not only for religious matters. Fasting is not a mere religious matter, it has many concepts in it. On the Fitr feast, many members sent me congratulations and I replied: "we were on fast, we donated Iftari with goof foods. We had a party and feast in our house. We gave Iftari six days a week (in Ramadan), and we could save 12000 dollars.
Therefore, you can see fasting can be a way for being hungry, angry and upset or it can benefit us a lot.
All the branches of Congress60 donated Iftari during this month, all the members gathered together and ate the same food, many of them cooperated to ready foods and some members provided money for that and they felt great. Other types of prayers in our religion are the same (they are beneficial in the same way). However, some people do funny actions as if they wanted to deceive God. A lamb was swimming in the pool, and a wolf came asking why you are making dust in the pool. The lamb answered I am not making dust, but I am swimming, making dust in water is impossible! The wolf repeated his question and the lamb eventually answered: " If you want to eat me, come and eat but do not say something wrong". Some people do not want to fast, they go out of their towns and then they return back (in Islam, passengers are not to fast). If you do not want to fats, then "do not do that!"
I have declared that 20 per cent of the excessive money that you have gathered for Ramadan can be spent for buying kitchen-wares and utensils. The remain should be paid into Congress60's account. I really enjoy this month and I am sad, because it has finished.
Another point is that the second travelers are not to leave the legion after their liberation from addiction. The second travelers must be in the legion at least one year after their liberation and get new instructions. It depends on the guide, if they have a few first-travelers, they can keep their second-travelers more than a year after their liberation.
The irrigation legions (for irrigating the planted trees) have started their work well and I am very happy for that. I hope the same happens in other towns, because planting trees is only five per cent of the project, 95 per cent of the project is to irrigate and look after the trees.
Guides should ask their pupils to listen to Majani (for free) CD. I have received a letter objecting the process of election in one of Isfahan's branches. This person was not allowed to write a letter to me and say their ideas. Because we only examine the ballot papers, we all know each other, and if a person is bad, the members do not vote for them. When people volunteer to be Marzban (guard), we do not cross out the bad ones! Because if we delete their names, they will come and say: "if I could be a candidate, I was elected!". We surely know that if they are among the candidates, they cannot win more than two or three votes.
Therefore, if you have any complaints against any person, you should write your name and sign the letter. In Congress60, we are all volunteers to give free services and we do not receive money for that.
We should not pry into people's affairs, we should not judge them, we are not allowed to prejudge them, I have told the Didebans (watchers) and Marzbans (guards) to let all the volunteers take part in Marzbani elections. Let the group select the marzbans. It is not important if a bad person is elected, the elected will behave in a way that the members learn not to elect an unqualified person.
The only time I wanted a master of ceremony to leave his position dates back to many years ago after I wrote him several letters not to nap during the meeting.
Happy to you all the anniversary of fighting against addiction, of course all days in Congress60 are the day of fighting against addiction.
We have completely treated ice addiction more than 12 years ago and addiction to all types of drugs is treated easily in Congress60. The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) had sent me a letter and hoped for the discovery of a method to treat addiction to ice within the next ten years. I replied that we have treated ice addiction ten years ago in Congress60. In Congress60, we believe that addiction to all types of drugs at any age can be treated completely. Those Congress60's members who once have treated their ice-addiction are now the members of Iran national rugby team.
Ice addiction is treatable in Congress60. However, addiction to ice has decreased and heroin addiction increased, I am wholeheartedly glad for this event; because an opium addict is and opium addict, a heroin addict is a heroin addict; however, an alcoholic has lost their senses. In the past, we had fights and hoolganism as a result of drinking alcohol; however, ice destruction is ten times more than alcohol. The ice addicts have killed their child, mother or beheaded them, these events have now decreased and I hope we have no ice-addicts in the country because ice is a very dangerous drug.
I have talked about three categories of people:
1) Those who help Congress60 with their money or services.
2) Those who do not take any step in this regard and are neutral.
3) Those who make destructions in Congress60. The people who leave the session while the 11th rule is conducted are the main group of the third category. Not only do they avoid helping Congress60 but also they cause disturbance in the meetings. These people belong to the Left group (the left are those who do wrong).
Translated by Elahe
