As you struggle to come to terms with Culadasa's admission of sexual misconduct and "wrong speech", you can:
1. Tie yourself in knots trying to shoehorn this new information into your current model of enlightenment, or
2. Admit that your model is wrong
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I had no idea another Buddhist teacher had been up to no good. Where did you find out?
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As I said to Duff McDuffee on Facebook, I don’t feel Culadasa's transgressions invalidate anything Culadasa taught, and as observed, our models of enlightenment just don’t cut it when attempting to explain these incidents, which happen regularly now.
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Culadasa taught that
1. Meditation purifies the "fetters" of lust and ill will.
2. He himself was/is an examplar of the highest levels of meditative attainment.
At least one of those statements is not true.
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Ok. Culadasa’s teaching on meditation and lust WAS invalidated by his actions. It was one of his teachings I would explicitly not agree with anyway. Sex and its associated feelings are not at any issue as long as nobody is being hurt.
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Sexual puritanism has a strange way of covering up or else motivating sexual harm, too!