It's really quite simple. In jurisprudence there is the idea of the prudent man rule, i.e. what would a prudent man do in this circumstance? With leadership of a community comes responsibility. Osel Mukpo has acted deplorably. There is no possible circumstance where one could say that a prudent man would have done what he did to his students. One can't excuse it by saying that this is OK in Tibetan culture, first of all because it would totally NOT be cool with Tibetan women. Secondly, Osel Mukpo is not Tibetan-- he is Canadian. He grew up in a society where it is abundantly clear that alcoholism and abuse of one's position of trust do not meet the bar of what is prudent.Snowbear wrote: ↑Sat Jun 30, 2018 4:47 pmIn one level or another, everyone has them. I think calling these teachers "charlatans" is a defense against questioning how much our perceived Buddhist teachers' goodness/purity is offset by their real hidden, inconvenient humanity. If one dismisses them as charlatans when the inconvenient parts show up, we can move on easy with our lives.
All humans struggle with sexuality to some degree or another. Few students expect their teachers to be free from desire. What they do expect is that the needs of the student are primary, not the impulses and self-gratification of the teacher. I agree with the previous tongue-in-cheek suggestion about Tinder. If a teacher wants to screw, there are lots of avenues through which they can have sex with no strings attached. They don't do that because those partners couldn't be sworn to secrecy and threatened with samaya violation if they talk about it. This is a colossal, reprehensible abuse of power that has no place in modern society.