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> Sexual assaults and violent rages… Inside the dark
> world of Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche by Mick
> Brown
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> [dialogueireland.wordpress.com]
Thank you for posting this. I'm going to have to read it in segments. It's too much to deal with, all at once.
From the article:
To see the master not as a human being but as the Buddha himself,’ Sogyal has often told his students, ‘is the source of the highest blessing.’
How convenient for him! The way to tell from the start if a teacher is not operating legitimately, is if he tells the students they're supposed to see the master as the Buddha himself, and assume he has the students' best interests at heart.
I found the photo of Sogyal in Switzerland with Richard Gere and Joan Halifax disturbing. Roughly a decade before that, Joan had been raped by her Zen roshi. But there she was, getting cozy with Soggy, apparently not minding that he'd grabed her hand. That's chilling, in hindsight. Clearly, she was not aware that 15 years before their meeting in Switzerland, Sogyal had said that he wanted everything that Trungpa had: the string of Buddhist centers, the money, the fame, the women, the sex.
At the time, he was only Dudjom Rinpoche's interpreter. He began to gather students in the 70's, assisted to some extent by Dudjom Rinpoche, I think. After the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying was published (which he didn't write, nor understand, for the most part), his career as a guru took off like gangbusters.
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> Sexual assaults and violent rages… Inside the dark
> world of Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche by Mick
> Brown
>
>
> [dialogueireland.wordpress.com]
Thank you for posting this. I'm going to have to read it in segments. It's too much to deal with, all at once.
From the article:
To see the master not as a human being but as the Buddha himself,’ Sogyal has often told his students, ‘is the source of the highest blessing.’
How convenient for him! The way to tell from the start if a teacher is not operating legitimately, is if he tells the students they're supposed to see the master as the Buddha himself, and assume he has the students' best interests at heart.
I found the photo of Sogyal in Switzerland with Richard Gere and Joan Halifax disturbing. Roughly a decade before that, Joan had been raped by her Zen roshi. But there she was, getting cozy with Soggy, apparently not minding that he'd grabed her hand. That's chilling, in hindsight. Clearly, she was not aware that 15 years before their meeting in Switzerland, Sogyal had said that he wanted everything that Trungpa had: the string of Buddhist centers, the money, the fame, the women, the sex.
At the time, he was only Dudjom Rinpoche's interpreter. He began to gather students in the 70's, assisted to some extent by Dudjom Rinpoche, I think. After the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying was published (which he didn't write, nor understand, for the most part), his career as a guru took off like gangbusters.