Jerrysan Rinpoche/Linda

[Guest guest]

Thanks for raising this issues Linda. I know they come from your

personal experience. Perhaps Jerrysan Rinpoche can give his comments.

By the way Jerrysan, I am thinking of declaring your Zen Garden as an

official Pilgrimage Site. Don't be surprised if groups

of devotees start showing up next year.

Harsha

LC [jyotish (AT) warwick (DOT) net]Sent:

Wednesday, May 10, 2000 6:55 AM Subject:

Re: When you're traveling, ask a traveler for advice,

not so...

Hi Jerry,

The teacher that I had often behaved in a demanding and frightening

manner....in the beginning he patterned himself after Yogi Bhajan and

would often say that it was all for effect that he was not really

angry. He would tell stories about Iyengar and how he threw some

student across a room once which resulted in permanent neck damage

and another teacher who would have his students wear dog collars. We

were constantly told that he was gentle compared to others and how in

previous days we would have had to sit in the hot sun for weeks to

even be allowed into an ashram. I believe that at one time this man

did act like that for effect and the behavior was an attention getter

which often would shock one into an awareness. However, as time went

on power began to get to him and it was no longer an act...he became

a classic example of someone who could manipulate energy and siddhis

but who had not gotten rid of his own 'stuff'. Teachers like this

abound but so does grace and when the time is right the inner Guru

seems to remove one from the wrath and the journey continues.

Recovery is a difficult process and this man's entire 'inner circle'

is now gone and we all seem to be doing fine only 2 of us have had

long term effects...with me it is financial as he cost me greatly and

a friend who gained over 100 pounds in the months that followed her

swan song. One of the challenges in a situation like this is how

much to say afterwards as this person continues to ply his trade.

Many are afraid of his 'power' and hesitate to talk about him at all,

some just want to get on with life and not take the chance of

incurring karma or keeping any connection formed. As his senior

teacher I still hear about this man and his actions does one do as

the Dalai Lama suggests and speak out against a wrongful teacher or

leave it alone? Is it someone's karma to have to deal with him or is

it right to try and protect someone? It is ironic that we look for

someone to guide us along the 'razor' edged path and find in the end

that the guide was the razor.

Linda Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all

experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space

of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all

things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness.

Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home.

Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality

of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of

Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self.

Welcome all to a.