![]() ![]() The minute Eaton’s article described Lama Surya Das asking female students to meditate with him in a yab-yum position (a tantric deity pose that features male and female expressing partners in sexual embrace) this was bound to be tossed into the “Well, that’s tantra for you” basket. Of the three vehicles of Buddhism-Mahayana, Theravada, and Vajrayana-it is Vajrayana with its tantric practices and studies on masculine and feminine energy that immediately draws criticism. ~ Kellie Schorr Click To Tweet It’s not the car, it’s the driver. Sometimes humans do incredibly ugly things. Sometimes humans do amazingly beautiful things. There’s no laser that cuts as quickly or deeply as spiritual hypocrisy. By their very position they inspire our best nature and thus exist in a seat elevated by gratitude and respect. Lamas use the language and images of our own heart practice. When it comes to Buddhist teachers, however, it’s harder and more painful to understand the many stories that can reside in one person. Margaret Sanger, renown champion of birth control and women’s health, supported eugenics and encouraged enforced sterilization of those with “undesirable traits.”.Bill Cosby, a comedic trailblazer and “every-dad” turned out to be serial rapist.John Lennon, the peace-loving song poet, martyred in death, abandoned his first wife, treated his son with contempt and in a 1980 interview shortly before his death admitted to slapping women-“any woman.”. ![]()
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