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by Tara
Sun Jun 30, 2019 1:18 am
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed
Replies: 7
Views: 37241

Re: Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed

It looks to me like Shambhala has done everything it could to AVOID real Tibetan Buddhism. Shambhala Levels I-V; The Everyday Life series; The Shambhala Training series; The Basic Goodness series; Rigden: Unconditional Confidence; Enlightened Society Assembly; Warrior Assembly; Sacred World Assembly...
by Tara
Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:18 am
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed
Replies: 7
Views: 37241

Re: Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed

And I really have to say: In addition to wasting all of his students' and benefactors' money and time on addictive, self-and-other-destructive behaviors, the Sakyong has committed and is committing a HUGE dharma crime. I really don't know how much real Tibetan Buddhism Shambhala people were ever exp...
by Tara
Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:22 am
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed
Replies: 7
Views: 37241

Re: Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed

Unfortunately, the Sakyong had absolutely NO vision. When Trump got elected, I made a prayer to myself, a silly hopeful little prayer, that he would take the opportunity to do something great. But Trump too has NO vision. So instead, I imagine what Ralph Nader would have done in such a situation whe...
by Tara
Mon Jun 24, 2019 3:40 am
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed
Replies: 7
Views: 37241

Re: Buddhist Project Sunshine: A Pale Illumination Indeed

I have been reading Carol Merchasin's "Ask Me Anything" answers to posters' questions on Reddit which event happened on April 11, 2019. And I read a fact that I had not cognized before in the BPS report, which I read in detail several times. Maybe on some subliminal level I just didn't want to know ...
by Tara
Fri Jun 14, 2019 9:22 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Reminiscences of Penor Rinpoche's Terrible Tulkus -- Burroughs and Seagal
Replies: 4
Views: 28380

Re: Reminiscences of Penor Rinpoche's Terrible Tulkus -- Burroughs and Seagal

Penor's denial that he received any "substantial" donation from Steven Seagal reminds me of this denial by the Dalai Lama that he didn't receive $1 million to endorse NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere (a denial most likely written by Alexander Halpern, the Dalai Lama's lawyer, too). I would take apart...
by Tara
Tue Jun 11, 2019 9:06 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Reminiscences of Penor Rinpoche's Terrible Tulkus -- Burroughs and Seagal
Replies: 4
Views: 28380

Re: Reminiscences of Penor Rinpoche's Terrible Tulkus -- Burroughs and Seagal

Statement by H.H. Penor Rinpoche Regarding the Recognition of Steven Seagal as a Reincarnation of the Treasure Revealer Chungdrag Dorje of Palyul Monastery by Penor Rinpoche 1999 In February of 1997 I recognized my student, Steven Seagal, as a reincarnation (tulku) of the treasure revealer Chungdra...
by Tara
Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:21 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: Reminiscences of Penor Rinpoche's Terrible Tulkus -- Burroughs and Seagal
Replies: 4
Views: 28380

Reminiscences of Penor Rinpoche's Terrible Tulkus -- Burroughs and Seagal

Reminiscences of Penor Rinpoche's Terrible Tulkus -- Burroughs and Seagal by Tara Carreon 6/11/19 Jetsunma was staying at Professor Lin 's house in San Francisco just after she had been recognized as a tulku by Penor Rinpoche. Gyatrul Rinpoche set me up. He brought me into the kitchen to meet her. ...
by Tara
Sat May 18, 2019 9:27 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: You give me first, and I'll give you later: The oldest trick in the world ...
Replies: 2
Views: 16029

Re: You give me first, and I'll give you later: The oldest trick in the world ...

In Tibetan Buddhism, you give your loyalty, money, time and belief, and the lama is supposed to give you enlightenment and eternal caring. What a selfish motivation you are operating from. You want to achieve something grandiose and divine, FIRST, for yourself, and of course, LATER, for others. So y...
by Tara
Fri May 17, 2019 7:58 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: You give me first, and I'll give you later: The oldest trick in the world ...
Replies: 2
Views: 16029

You give me first, and I'll give you later: The oldest trick in the world ...

that we fall for again and again and again. Couple that with the authoritarian/corporate conditioning that everyone must keep their commitments, and pay their debts, and you have the neverending spectacle of people expressing loyalty toward situations that have clearly become bad, and where they hav...
by Tara
Fri May 17, 2019 7:26 pm
Forum: We're Not in Lhasa Anymore
Topic: The Questionable Shambhala Practice of "Holding Space"
Replies: 1
Views: 14325

Re: The Questionable Shambhala Practice of "Holding Space"

I do not believe that "holding space" means whatever blah blah blah they say it means. They don't want to say what it actually means, which is the clear meaning of those two words: "holding" and "space," because it will immediately raise the question of nihilism. The "holding" gives you the sense of...