Sunday, September 23, 2018

Encountering the Shadow in Buddhist America Common Boundary Magazine 1990 May/June By Katy Butler



“Stand up,” Tendzin said. “Kiss me.” My friend complied.

When the Regent requested oral sex, my friend, slightly dismayed, declined. ”I think you can do it,” the Regent said cheerfully. The two then moved to a couch, where my friend’s taboo against homosexuality was broken.


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When it was over, Tendzin mentioned in passing that he had similar sexual encounters several times a day. 

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Now, as the shadow side has come to light, certain common elements within the communities are apparent:

• Patterns of denial, shame secrecy and invasiveness reminiscent of alcoholic and incestuous families.

• Soft-pedaling of basic Buddhist precepts against harming others by misusing alcohol and sex.

• An unhealthy marriage of Asian hierarchy and American license that distorts the teacher-disciple relationship; and

• A tendency. once scandals are uncovered, to either scapegoat the disgraced teachers or blindly deny that anything has changed.



Richard Baker-roshi...


Similar patterns were acknowledged at Zen Center of Los Angeles




Trungpa Rinpoche ...“crazy wisdom,” 

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