Stripping the Gurus

[Kai]

http://www.strippingthegurus.com/index.html

Great book which exposes pretty much every famous "guru" and is great fodder to use on devotees.

One of my favorites mentioned is the Dalai Llama. I've actually met the dude. I knew something seemed a bit "off" about him, and this book pretty much confirms stuff I've thought for a while.

Enjoy.

What does it say about Thich Nhat Hahn?

[BabylonHoruv]

http://www.strippingthegurus.com/index.html

Great book which exposes pretty much every famous "guru" and is great fodder to use on devotees.

One of my favorites mentioned is the Dalai Llama. I've actually met the dude. I knew something seemed a bit "off" about him, and this book pretty much confirms stuff I've thought for a while.

Enjoy.

Most of the chapter on Ramakrishna seems to be about him being trans and/or gay.  I fail to see the problem or why this would invalidate him as a spiritual leader.

I dunno who that is.

But I assume, if he preaches one thing and does another, that would invalidate his spiritual leaderness, and I don't know many spiritual leaders of prominence being ok with the gays.

He's the first chapter.  It doesn't mention him preaching against homosexuality, I haven't heard about any Hindu spiritual leader doing so actually.

[Adios]

My heroes have always been cowboys.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

My heroes have always been cowboys.

BIG GAY COWBOYS.

Anyway, who the hell follows a Lama?  They're a beast of burden from Peru.  Hardly Holy™ at all.

[Adios]

My heroes have always been cowboys.

BIG GAY COWBOYS.

Anyway, who the hell follows a Lama?  They're a beast of burden from Peru.  Hardly Holy™ at all.

Roger wins the thread. 

[Cain]

But tasty.  And their wool is quite excellent.

[Luna]

My heroes have always been cowboys.

BIG GAY COWBOYS.

Anyway, who the hell follows a Lama?  They're a beast of burden from Peru.  Hardly Holy™ at all.

Maybe not, but they can spit some truly disgusting stuff with some decent accuracy, so I give 'em points for that.

[Adios]

My heroes have always been cowboys.

BIG GAY COWBOYS.

Anyway, who the hell follows a Lama?  They're a beast of burden from Peru.  Hardly Holy™ at all.

Maybe not, but they can spit some truly disgusting stuff with some decent accuracy, so I give 'em points for that.

Hell, some of the posters here can do that anally, with much more effect.

[Lies]

Yes,I did.

My feelings about him are long and winded, actually this is just one of many things that have confirmed what I always felt deep inside.

Lets just say, the warning bells went off around the time I realised if you have a question for his holiness, it must be screened and processed and be the "right" question before you get to hear his answer,.

This has nothing to do with my feelings about the guy; I assume religious leaders are total shits. I'm just calling bullshit on what you said because the actual chapter on the Dalai Lama didn't really contain anything condemning of the current one. And the book doesn't look like anything I'd cite with confidence anyway... it's very tabloidesque. And,  you didn't answer my questions.

I read the chapter about the Dalai Lama. So unless all the dirt about the Dalai Lama was in chapters that weren't about him, I'm confused about what you said. How much of it did you read? What parts confirmed which thoughts you'd had about him being "off", in what ways?

Sorry, I'll answer your questions Nigel:
1- I read it all, it's been a while since I've read it all, as I found this info a long time ago, it's only now where I decided to share it after getting into an e-argument about the dalai lama, so I admit, maybe there's stuff I'm just assuming is in there that probably isn't and that I'm thinking of different sources that also say stuff that have confirmed my suspicions of him (and pretty much any leader of a religious organisation).
Yeah, from the sounds of it, he's nowhere near as bad as the previous Lamas, but he ain't the enlightened saint that everyone makes him out to be.
I used to be a fan when I was in highschool. HE visited Australia at one point and I went with a group of other students to go see and meet him.
It bothered me that questions had to be pre-approved before he would answer them, and they were all questions which I thought were kinda... how to put it... not important I suppose.
Ever since then, I had suspicions he wasn't all he was cracked up to be.
Ever since then, I've found more and more sources suggesting he isn't the awesome guy that I once thought he was.

Better?

[Lies]

My feelings about him are long and winded, actually this is just one of many things that have confirmed what I always felt deep inside.

Alarm bells should be going off, right about now.

What do you mean? I should have said, what I felt about him came about after meeting him, and walking away feeling somewhat disappointed.

[Kai]

http://www.strippingthegurus.com/index.html

Great book which exposes pretty much every famous "guru" and is great fodder to use on devotees.

One of my favorites mentioned is the Dalai Llama. I've actually met the dude. I knew something seemed a bit "off" about him, and this book pretty much confirms stuff I've thought for a while.

Enjoy.

What does it say about Thich Nhat Hahn?

[Lies]

http://www.strippingthegurus.com/index.html

Great book which exposes pretty much every famous "guru" and is great fodder to use on devotees.

One of my favorites mentioned is the Dalai Llama. I've actually met the dude. I knew something seemed a bit "off" about him, and this book pretty much confirms stuff I've thought for a while.

Enjoy.

What does it say about Thich Nhat Hahn?

Sorry, nothing, as far as I know, but I haven't read the whole thing, but if the chapter pages are anything to go by, e's not mentioned.

[Kai]

http://www.strippingthegurus.com/index.html

Great book which exposes pretty much every famous "guru" and is great fodder to use on devotees.

One of my favorites mentioned is the Dalai Llama. I've actually met the dude. I knew something seemed a bit "off" about him, and this book pretty much confirms stuff I've thought for a while.

Enjoy.

What does it say about Thich Nhat Hahn?

Sorry, nothing, as far as I know, but I haven't read the whole thing, but if the chapter pages are anything to go by, e's not mentioned.

He's the most prominent member of Vietnamese Zen Buddhism and the founder of Engaged Buddhism, has written over 100 books, and holds meditation/peace retreats around the world. I didn't expect there would be anything dirty on him, but I was curious if the author might try.

[Lies]

http://www.strippingthegurus.com/index.html

Great book which exposes pretty much every famous "guru" and is great fodder to use on devotees.

One of my favorites mentioned is the Dalai Llama. I've actually met the dude. I knew something seemed a bit "off" about him, and this book pretty much confirms stuff I've thought for a while.

Enjoy.

What does it say about Thich Nhat Hahn?

Sorry, nothing, as far as I know, but I haven't read the whole thing, but if the chapter pages are anything to go by, e's not mentioned.

He's the most prominent member of Vietnamese Zen Buddhism and the founder of Engaged Buddhism, has written over 100 books, and holds meditation/peace retreats around the world. I didn't expect there would be anything dirty on him, but I was curious if the author might try.

It doesn't mention much about Vietnamese Buddhism but it does mention Japanese zen buddhism.
If it's anything like that, there's plenty of dirt to be found.
But I've never heard of this person til you mentioned him, so I can't say much, other than, wherever there is organised religion, there's pretty much a guarantee of corruption somewhere in it, most of the time, at the very top.

[Cain]

Vietnamese Buddhism isn't, as far as I'm aware, anywhere near as militaristic and tied to state power as Japanese Zen Buddhism was.  I assume it had some power, at least, but I know under some of the South Vietnamese generals in the Vietnam War it was brutally suppressed, often with minimal resistance from the Buddhists themselves.  And I doubt the Communists in the North were very keen on it either.