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    Down By Law Regarding the ten-million-dollar lawsuit against Sogyal Rinpoche for sexual abuse [Spring 1995 In the News]: While Sogyal Rinpoche remains innocent until or unless proven guilty, whether or not he is within the ignoble category of teachers who misuse their spiritual authority is a question that has now been overwhelmed by the lawsuit itself. I am sympathetic to the lawsuit for the simple reason that no one seems able to come up with another solution… More »
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    Letters to the Editor - Winter 1993 Paid Member

    No Right, No Wrong (Con't.) I object to Pema Chodron's (Vol. III, No.1) calling the suggestion to publicize the truth about misbehaving teachers "McCarthyism." Joseph McCarthy slandered people, lied about them, unjustly destroyed their reputations, all in the service of his own political ambition and ideology. The spirit behind the recommendation of the conference of Western dharma teachers is the opposite of this. It is simply to tell the truth. Tell the truth, and let the hearers of that truth decide for themselves what to make of it and what to do about it. Telling the truth is what eventually put McCarthy out of business. More »
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    Ether/Or“Barbara Roether’s article [“The Heartbeat Sutra: Chaos Theory, Karma, and other Fluctuations,” Summer 1995] is a disservice both to science and to Buddhism. It is part of a long tradition of forced connections between physics and religion. Theosophists in turn-of-the-century America were inspired in part by the recent discovery of radio waves. They drew upon Maxwell’s old picture of electromagnetic waves traveling in a medium, the “aether” (now known as ether), to justify belief in extrasensory… More »
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    Letters to the Editor Winter 2007 Paid Member

    INSIDE MAN As a Roman Catholic priest and a Zen dharma holder, I feel impelled to respond to questions raised in two of the reviews in the Fall 2007 issue. More »
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    Letters to the Editor Fall 2005 Paid Member

    HANKIES OR KLEENEX? More »