CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
I want to reconsider whatever i said about this case, I clicked on the Facebook link in the original post and read most of the relevant posts? Fact-checking. I'm withholding my remarks for several reasons - the woman admits to mental illness, that the stories are coming forth because of Shambala's threatened lawsuits against the 'story tellers'. She's claiming her legal rights were violated and that crimes were committed, and that she is a victim of sexual violence and abuse. When people want the courts to hear their case, I'm all in favor of allowing the discussion to take place there.
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Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
This is one of the most true Buddhist statements to be found anywhere on this website.
That much is clear.
Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
What she seems to be really saying when getting passed all the emotions is that she was upset that he was hurting himself with drugs and alcohol, and she felt funny about her relationship with him years later.
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Disappointed by the rationalisations here.
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William of Occam thinks that the guy was an alcoholic and drug addict who liked to get laid. Have you a convincing argument for why your interpretation is better than his?
Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
Of course he was, but what bothers you about that?PeterC wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:25 amWilliam of Occam thinks that the guy was an alcoholic and drug addict who liked to get laid. Have you a convincing argument for why your interpretation is better than his?
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Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
Quay wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:14 amXXIlluminatingVoid72 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 12:33 am I have always been disturbed by reading the wikipedia article on his main student, who was a rapist and essentially murdered people by knowingly giving them AIDS....
You cannot give someone AIDS since that term is a description of a medical condition with several variables.
What you can do is pass on the virus known as HIV which may or may not lead a person to develop the syndrome known as AIDS.
Correct. Sadly in those days it made very little difference. Knowingly infecting someone was akin to deliberate killing. These days of course the picture is very different.
Apologies for loose usage.
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Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
In that case, why did Tilopa hurt fishes?
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Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
you 'think' "CTR never told people to drink or do drugs, and he asked permission before engaging in sex with his female students."Snowbear wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:25 am The bottom line, I think, is that CTR never told people to drink or do drugs, and he asked permission before engaging in sex with his female students. Whether dealing with hangovers, addictions, cirrhosis, or shame was really nothing more than a "self-indulgent" trip for CTR is beside the point.
- do read the Boulder monthly of March 79
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To give him some tiny credit in this tawdry matter, he NEVER (unlike Da Free John or Michael Roach) claimed that his sexual activity was part of his teachings or that it was an initiation.Snowbear wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 4:16 am That is to say, CTR was not thinking, "my male privileged religious authority grants me coercive power over women, where consent is not really consent, therefore I must maintain professional church/workplace boundaries." First, that's not ever how a Vajrayana teacher-student relationship was like. Second, his promiscuity was a part of his teachings.
By the time that he began the serial abuse, he was just a once handsome, now ugly guy, offering a quick frak with no strings. And some women agreed through flattery and/or because they thought it would give them status. Like Weinstein.
And that's manipulation.
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Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
Why are we treated like children? Why can't we type the word 'frak' without it being censored into frak.
Are we all going to melt down?
Are we all going to melt down?
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
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If the woman actually has a history of mental illness then CTR's behaviour was even more reprehensible.Fortyeightvows wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:58 amThis is one of the most true Buddhist statements to be found anywhere on this website.
That much is clear.
“You don’t know it. You just know about it. That is not the same thing.”
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche to me.
Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
Nothing bothers me, but that's not the question here.Snowbear wrote: ↑Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:29 amOf course he was, but what bothers you about that?
You said...well, read what you said above.
I said, there is a simpler explanation than the BS you proposed about this being a profound and elaborate teaching
So you're saying...that you agree?
Re: CTR, polygamy, cocaine, etc: Discuss
Since you are incapable of refraining from ad homs and put downs, I am going to lock this sandpit indefinitely (screwed if I am going to clean it up again). Any attempt to continue this discussion in other threads will be dealt with severely.
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Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE
"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde