tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168105775087280288.post6467099138543866536..comments2009-02-22T11:50:13.079-08:00Jules Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667693426787755411noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168105775087280288.post-88780870627825022772009-02-22T11:50:00.000-08:002009-02-22T11:50:00.000-08:00Hi Pema, <BR/><BR/>Thanks for interesting info re Sogyal. Didn&#39;t know about the S&amp;M cult! <BR/><BR/>this was my source for the sexual harassment thing, from the Guardian: <BR/><BR/>http://www.flameout.org/flameout/gurus/sogyal_sexualhealing.html<BR/><BR/>Re parking my brain, well, i guess i disagree. it seems to me that its when people park their brains that they end up signing up to bizarre beliefs or exploitative gurus. <BR/><BR/>anyway, as i said in the posting, i have great respect for Buddhism, its just im not Indian, and think we have as great resources in my own culture.Jules Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06667693426787755411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168105775087280288.post-71680943760460493502009-02-22T09:36:00.000-08:002009-02-22T09:36:00.000-08:00Factual error regarding Sogyal Lakar aka Rinpoche. He was never accused of sexual assault while drunk. You are muddling him up with Trungpa R. Sogyal is a sexual predator on a grand scale. He was sued for sexual assault and battery in 1994.Currently maintains a sado-masochistic harem --paid for by naive and misguided devotees. He is self-indulgent nascissist and was never trained as a lama. A total conman and charlatan. But I warn against throwing out the Buddhist baby with his very dirty bathwater. You present a string of intellectual rationales -- which in my view is not the way to arrive at an understanding of religion and/or spirituality. You can't being to understand until you have parked your brain. You can drive off in it again, but first you have to bring thoughts under control. A month's solitary meditation retreat should do the trick. And I recommend Lama Tsultrim Allione as an excellent teacher. She's American.Pemanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168105775087280288.post-81014924387037796562009-02-17T13:21:00.000-08:002009-02-17T13:21:00.000-08:00Nice posting. Do you know about this edition of the Gita?<BR/><BR/>http://www.YogaVidya.com/gita.htmlsfauthorhttp://www.yogavidya.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168105775087280288.post-9724887481820154492009-02-16T08:57:00.000-08:002009-02-16T08:57:00.000-08:00Jules,<BR/><BR/>Check this out:<BR/>http://www.learningforlife.org.uk<BR/><BR/>Set up by David Lorimer and the SMN. Now its an autonomous initiative, with its own funding.<BR/><BR/>OllyOllynoreply@blogger.com