Frankly, I don't buy the Dalai Lama saying he can do nothing. YES, he bloody well CAN do something!!! He can help Western dharma students set up an ethics guideline, which states clearly "Do not fuck your students! Do not grope your students! Do not sexually harass your students! Do not use your body, speech or mind to indulge your lust in any way whatsoever on or with your students!"
That way both students of the dharma AND the lamas/teachers teaching know, openly, transparently, what the rules are.
Come on, how difficult would that be for him???!!!
All the DL has said is "Sogyal is disgraced." Or some variation of the victim, who is in a state of loss and trauma from having been abused, and a sangha in total denial, publicize the sexual abuse. That is agonizingly difficult for the victim and the sangha because it means a mega complex loss for that student, public humiliation, being reviled by fellow sangha for even talking about having been sexually abused by the holy teacher. It is trauma after trauma for the victim. That is really not right. It's an ethics abuse on top of ethics abuse. Layers of misery for the victim.
Prevention of the abuse in the first place is obviously and logically the right place to start this, not AFTER the abuse has occurred!
Sexual abuse by Tibetan lamas will, I believe, terminate the validity - or any trust - in Tibetan lamas.
That way both students of the dharma AND the lamas/teachers teaching know, openly, transparently, what the rules are.
Come on, how difficult would that be for him???!!!
All the DL has said is "Sogyal is disgraced." Or some variation of the victim, who is in a state of loss and trauma from having been abused, and a sangha in total denial, publicize the sexual abuse. That is agonizingly difficult for the victim and the sangha because it means a mega complex loss for that student, public humiliation, being reviled by fellow sangha for even talking about having been sexually abused by the holy teacher. It is trauma after trauma for the victim. That is really not right. It's an ethics abuse on top of ethics abuse. Layers of misery for the victim.
Prevention of the abuse in the first place is obviously and logically the right place to start this, not AFTER the abuse has occurred!
Sexual abuse by Tibetan lamas will, I believe, terminate the validity - or any trust - in Tibetan lamas.
No comments:
Post a Comment