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This set up makes you a sitting duck for COVERT NARCISSISTS who run most Buddhist organizations--yes, even the hip, cool social justicey ones--because they need self-victimizing codependent people to fill their shrine rooms and donate lots of money.https://youtu.be/16AOOKHyddQ
So here's the deal with 'lama-guru syndrome': they are covert narcissists. And you as the codependent make a Samaya vow to see them as Buddha--because that's what all Narcissists want--someone to venerate them as perfect, benevolent and unassailable.
Maybe there’s a spectrum of toxicity (just as there’s a spectrum of narcissism) with cults clearly being on one end.
Yes, there is a spectrum of narcissism. Dzogchen Ponlop is clearly a narcissist but a benign one. A Productive Narcissist, he doesn't do much harm. OTOH, Sogyal Rinpoche is a Malignant Narcissist, a sadist. He thoroughly enjoys humiliating and inflicting pain on people.
I wonder, can we engage with what resonates from these spaces while staying vigilant to problematic dynamics? There’s a natural human tendency to seek community and role models - esp. in spiritual context. I don’t know. Tricky....
Like, you nailed it
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