Surprise, Sakyong Mipham abused students. I warned @ethannichtern about this a while back and his response was to block me. This is why this shit keeps happening.https://thinkprogress.org/buddhist-leader-sexually-assaulted-students-report-finds-0d08e17cedd9/ …
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Looks like he’s since made his statement. It sounds like a good start. A rough road ahead for the community members but deep changes always gonna have that quality.http://www.ethannichtern.com/reflections-on-shambhala/ …
Trying to coerce people away from "hitting the exits" is some serious bullshit, manipulating students at their weak point - the social drive to belong to something 'special'. This is just using the dharma to draw people together socially, in a rotten mega-church. Yuck.
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To Ethan: the latest Buddhist Project Sunshine Report is exemplary not just in exposing the abuse and cover-up, but suggesting models of how the community could respond. Worth linking directly to that since these are the voices you say you wish heard right now?
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Ethan is a friend and was my first Buddhist teacher. Though I am not a part of either of his sanghas anymore, I am eager to hear about the outcome of the Shambhala NYC community meeting last night.
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