When laundry is hung out to dry, it cannot freshen unless hung out to dry
outdoors.
Try and hang wet laundry to dry in private, indoors, away from the public gaze. The result is not nearly as good.
(Disgusted)
As Prince Hamlet would have said, that "the Geshe, and other senior monks/teachers, including the Dalai Lama, took a very dim view of CT, having heard much about his behavior and teachigns" --
that was just words, words, words.
Those senior figures did nothing effective to speak out and name names.
When anyone, including a lama, is brutish enough to abuse money, sex and power, the only thing he or she understands is FEAR -- fear of PUBLIC EXPOSURE.
Traditional Tibetan Tact is not enough.
Traditional Tibetan cultural controls is NOT enough to restrain or even prevent
lama abuses of power.
By contrast, American style protest proved effective at San Francisco Zen Center
when Richard (Dick) Baker abused his prerogatives as abbot.
It took some years, but at last the board of directors balked. Baker made one too many requests for expensive purchases. Unlike TIbetans, these Americans
had limits. And Japanese Soto Zen is more austere than the gaudy gilded brocade
and gold lama crowns favored by the Tibetans.
It was in that context that persons who endured Bakers sexual predations had an opening and spoke up.
American social norms, which are jeered at by Tibetan teachers as egotistical, turned out more effective at ousting an abusive leader than the smiling tact of
the Himalayas.
We have had over 40 years of Vajrayana teaching outside of Tibet and 40 years of
abuses of money, sex and power within Vajryana teaching outside of Tibet.
In four decades we have seen that the traditional Himalayan methods of behind the door diplomacy will not restrain greedy, selfish lamas.
The only effective remedy to abuses of money sex and power is public exposure.
When dirty laundry is sufficiently toxic, it needs to be air dried in public.
The Tibetan method of drying dirty laundry in private, indoors, leaves the filth untouched.
outdoors.
Try and hang wet laundry to dry in private, indoors, away from the public gaze. The result is not nearly as good.
(Disgusted)
As Prince Hamlet would have said, that "the Geshe, and other senior monks/teachers, including the Dalai Lama, took a very dim view of CT, having heard much about his behavior and teachigns" --
that was just words, words, words.
Those senior figures did nothing effective to speak out and name names.
When anyone, including a lama, is brutish enough to abuse money, sex and power, the only thing he or she understands is FEAR -- fear of PUBLIC EXPOSURE.
Traditional Tibetan Tact is not enough.
Traditional Tibetan cultural controls is NOT enough to restrain or even prevent
lama abuses of power.
By contrast, American style protest proved effective at San Francisco Zen Center
when Richard (Dick) Baker abused his prerogatives as abbot.
It took some years, but at last the board of directors balked. Baker made one too many requests for expensive purchases. Unlike TIbetans, these Americans
had limits. And Japanese Soto Zen is more austere than the gaudy gilded brocade
and gold lama crowns favored by the Tibetans.
It was in that context that persons who endured Bakers sexual predations had an opening and spoke up.
American social norms, which are jeered at by Tibetan teachers as egotistical, turned out more effective at ousting an abusive leader than the smiling tact of
the Himalayas.
We have had over 40 years of Vajrayana teaching outside of Tibet and 40 years of
abuses of money, sex and power within Vajryana teaching outside of Tibet.
In four decades we have seen that the traditional Himalayan methods of behind the door diplomacy will not restrain greedy, selfish lamas.
The only effective remedy to abuses of money sex and power is public exposure.
When dirty laundry is sufficiently toxic, it needs to be air dried in public.
The Tibetan method of drying dirty laundry in private, indoors, leaves the filth untouched.