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A page, sub 9, Awakening 6

October 22, 2025
‘I give thanks to Dick Baker [teacher, San Francisco Zen Center] every day for fucking up so incredibly well that it gave me my life back, because I’d given it...
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A page, sub 2 Accountability 4

October 22, 2025
What we came to realise was that the people in positions of power put finances first. Not people. Not enlightenment…Rigpa management valued the reputation of the organisation over the well-being...
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A page, sub 3 Acknowledgement 3

October 22, 2025
We must believe anyone disclosing an experience of sexual misconduct, while noticing and resisting the common tendency to blame victims. If misconduct is perpetrated by a teacher, we must especially...
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A page, sub 4, Action/Activism 2

October 22, 2025
A clear message from the younger teachers in particular, was the need to awaken collectively; [Kate] Johnson, emphasized that the Buddha’s liberation teachings were desperately needed, not only for individuals...
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A page, sub 1 Abuse 5

October 22, 2025
As with therapists and clients, clergy misconduct recognizes that consensual relationships are not possible between clergy and congregants and that clergy misconduct is an abuse of power and a violation...
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A page, sub 1 Abuse 8

October 22, 2025
Sexual abuse relies on complex dynamics that are both interpersonal and institutional. Combating it demands power-aware, trauma-informed, psychologically pragmatic responses.
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A page, sub 1 Abuse 10

October 22, 2025
‘Spiritual abuse’, defined by International Cultic Studies Association, refers to any type of physical, sexual, or psychological harm perpetrated by a spiritual or religious leader on a member of a...
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A page, sub 1 Abuse 11

October 22, 2025
[Spiritual abuse] is an emerging concept…the scholarship of this kind of distinct form of suffering; a distinct form of devastation that happens when abuse happens in a religious context. Some...
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A page, sub 1 Abuse 12

October 22, 2025
This is, in fact, the central identifying characteristic of spiritual abuse: the healer’s needs, not those of the one seeking healing, take precedence…[It] is a misuse of power in a...
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