Hi,
I didn't see anything about suicidal thoughts, so please don't try to taint my character by suggesting I don't have empathy towards anyone who feels hurt. I wrote that I am sorry that some people have had bad experiences as mine was not. I saw something about someone feeling that they were attacked psychically but didnt see the word suicide.
I went to Rinpoche at a time when I felt deeply depressed and he helped me out of that depression.
and yes I left Newcastle at one point feeling like a shitty person. The purpose of a spiritual journey is to wake up right? Well, I needed to see that I was being a shitty person at that time and Rinpoche helped me to do that. I returned to Newcastle again afterwards and felt wonderful.
And I still maintain that if someone wants to go and have a spiritual experience with Rinpoche then they should do it and not be scared off.
Rinpoche NEVER invited me to become a nun, he just said the obvious which was that there is a fast track and a not so fast track. I haven't read what I wrote as I don't have a lot of free time but maybe I wrote it wrong so I apologise.
I have not claimed to be anything in relation to buddhism, I just didn't think it was fair that you are slandering Rinpoche when for some of us he has really helped.
Again, i'm so sorry that others have not had a good experience...Just to note though that if a person is feeling that they are being spiritually attacked, it might just be that their vibrations have risen and they are now more open to other frequencies which means other beings are able to come into their space, but if they are not prepared for this then of course it can be scary and lead to a lot of confusion, fear and paranoia, so it might be worth asking someone spiritual how to close yourself off from what is known as lower dimensional beings. It is more likely that that's what you are feeling attacked from, then a bunch of astral projecting monks and nuns. Hope that helps.
As for the controlling thing, I just haven't seen this myself. What I think that is happening is that he is such a strong character that people don't feel that they can say no to him, however I went to Rinpoche one on one many times and told him how I felt and as I said he never stopped me from leaving and coming back. I have made my own decisions in life and whenever I have felt comfortable to make contact, as I said he has always been there. The reason I have had to leave and come back is that whilst you are there you take in a lot of information! It's a lot to process and I just felt that I needed to go away and let it sink in but it does mean that it has taken me years to learn something that I couldve probably learnt in a year if I had been there a whole year.
As for the Rinpoche thing, well Sifu is a martial arts term and he was mainly teaching buddhism so no point going by a martial arts term.
As for this Abuse thing again, I really dissagree. I wrote about ONE incident in 15 years and you have chosen to repeat that many times.
As I wrote earlier, I was NEVER in Newcastle to try to figure out how advanced Rinpoche was. I was there to learn about Buddhism and how to better myself and that's exactly what he taught me.
I refuse the word abuse. I never felt abused. I was 21 when I met Rinpoche, I was abusing myself and he stopped me, he helped me and now I have a wonderful life.
Damn straight I give myself credit for being strong, but what i'm saying is that he gave me the tools to do that. That is the point of a teacher.
That part about me shitting myself, not literally (!) was at a point when I was self destructing and he snapped me out of it. And the point of me writing that was to show that yes it is possible to have an intense relationship with Rinpoche but that it worked out fine. That man cares about his students and what he's doing and I never felt that I had to worship him btw. I didn't worship him, that is a weird concept to me, but I did feel very appreciative that he gave me the time of day even though the first year I knew him I was actually really disrespectful to him but he didn't give up on me.
You do have a valid point for your own experience with him because it was yours and you were there. Mine is just different and as you said I have not been back in many years. But as I said, I am still able to ask for advice, never felt like I couldn't.
I didn't see anything about suicidal thoughts, so please don't try to taint my character by suggesting I don't have empathy towards anyone who feels hurt. I wrote that I am sorry that some people have had bad experiences as mine was not. I saw something about someone feeling that they were attacked psychically but didnt see the word suicide.
I went to Rinpoche at a time when I felt deeply depressed and he helped me out of that depression.
and yes I left Newcastle at one point feeling like a shitty person. The purpose of a spiritual journey is to wake up right? Well, I needed to see that I was being a shitty person at that time and Rinpoche helped me to do that. I returned to Newcastle again afterwards and felt wonderful.
And I still maintain that if someone wants to go and have a spiritual experience with Rinpoche then they should do it and not be scared off.
Rinpoche NEVER invited me to become a nun, he just said the obvious which was that there is a fast track and a not so fast track. I haven't read what I wrote as I don't have a lot of free time but maybe I wrote it wrong so I apologise.
I have not claimed to be anything in relation to buddhism, I just didn't think it was fair that you are slandering Rinpoche when for some of us he has really helped.
Again, i'm so sorry that others have not had a good experience...Just to note though that if a person is feeling that they are being spiritually attacked, it might just be that their vibrations have risen and they are now more open to other frequencies which means other beings are able to come into their space, but if they are not prepared for this then of course it can be scary and lead to a lot of confusion, fear and paranoia, so it might be worth asking someone spiritual how to close yourself off from what is known as lower dimensional beings. It is more likely that that's what you are feeling attacked from, then a bunch of astral projecting monks and nuns. Hope that helps.
As for the controlling thing, I just haven't seen this myself. What I think that is happening is that he is such a strong character that people don't feel that they can say no to him, however I went to Rinpoche one on one many times and told him how I felt and as I said he never stopped me from leaving and coming back. I have made my own decisions in life and whenever I have felt comfortable to make contact, as I said he has always been there. The reason I have had to leave and come back is that whilst you are there you take in a lot of information! It's a lot to process and I just felt that I needed to go away and let it sink in but it does mean that it has taken me years to learn something that I couldve probably learnt in a year if I had been there a whole year.
As for the Rinpoche thing, well Sifu is a martial arts term and he was mainly teaching buddhism so no point going by a martial arts term.
As for this Abuse thing again, I really dissagree. I wrote about ONE incident in 15 years and you have chosen to repeat that many times.
As I wrote earlier, I was NEVER in Newcastle to try to figure out how advanced Rinpoche was. I was there to learn about Buddhism and how to better myself and that's exactly what he taught me.
I refuse the word abuse. I never felt abused. I was 21 when I met Rinpoche, I was abusing myself and he stopped me, he helped me and now I have a wonderful life.
Damn straight I give myself credit for being strong, but what i'm saying is that he gave me the tools to do that. That is the point of a teacher.
That part about me shitting myself, not literally (!) was at a point when I was self destructing and he snapped me out of it. And the point of me writing that was to show that yes it is possible to have an intense relationship with Rinpoche but that it worked out fine. That man cares about his students and what he's doing and I never felt that I had to worship him btw. I didn't worship him, that is a weird concept to me, but I did feel very appreciative that he gave me the time of day even though the first year I knew him I was actually really disrespectful to him but he didn't give up on me.
You do have a valid point for your own experience with him because it was yours and you were there. Mine is just different and as you said I have not been back in many years. But as I said, I am still able to ask for advice, never felt like I couldn't.