A poem by Chizuko Karen Joy Tasaka, published today on SweepingZen.com (
http://sweepingzen.com/to-joshu-sasaki- ... al-abuser/) ...
Roshi, you are a sexual abuser
“Come” you say as you pull me from a handshake onto your lap
“Open” you say as you push your hands between my knees, up my thighs
fondle my breasts
rub my genitals
french kiss me
you put my hand on your genitals
stroke your penis
jack you off?
this is sanzen?
my friend—she was inji
sex with roshi
she tried to say no
you demanded, demanded, demanded
demon demand the force of a tornado
sex with roshi
for whose best interest?
I told you I don’t like it.
I asked you why you do this?
You said,
“nonattachment, nonattachment, you nonattachment"
I told you as shoji, “women very angry, very upset”
I asked you why you do this.
You said: “Be good daughter to roshi, and good wife to G. [her husband].
Roshi, that is incest So many women trying to shake the shame from their voices of
Sex with roshi
We came to you with the trust of a student
You were our teacher
You betrayed us
You violated our bodies
You rape our souls
You betrayed our previous student-teacher relationship
You abuse us as women
You emasculate our husbands and boyfriends
Roshi, you are a sexual abuser
Your nuns you make your sexual servants
Your monks and oshos are crippled with denial
Roshi, Sexual Abuser.
–By Chizuko Karen Joy Tasaka (1951-2010)
(My bold above)