Relevancy: NXIVM was a cult. Preying on women, Keith Rainiere was also alleged to have preyed upon children. Further, he started in Arkansas under the watchful eye of Bill Clinton, and was found guilty of running a pyramid scheme. He paid a fine rather than serve jail time, and has been shoveling money into the democratic party which includes the Clintons ever since. This post expands and widens what this cult was about by tying it with Buddhism.
Came across this article that speaks of ''tantric'' sex and its place in Tibetan Buddhism. It has some pretty revealing things to say about the Dalai Lama and his being involved in a whole lot more than he's willing to admit. The article reminded me of a book I read a while back. I'll be damned if I can remember the title, but it was about the introduction of Buddhism to America. I'm going to have to put the rest of this in a comment below, because I can't find the book, and have no supporting material for what I read. So I'll put a summarization of the book as a comment. Now to get back to this article. Here's a bit of what it has to say:
https://artvoice.com/2018/02/18/author-dalai-lama-reportedly-aware-secretly-supported-lamas-tantric-sex-cult-practices/
Author: Dalai Lama reportedly aware, secretly supported lamas’ Tantric sex cult practices
he following is the opinion of author, Christine Chandler. She wrote ‘Enthralled,’ a book about the alleged secret Tantric sex practices of Tibetan Buddhist ‘monks.’ The writer’s views are her own.
NXIVM is a cult that brands women on their pubic region as a mark of slavery to its leader, Keith Raniere. Artvoice broke the story of their branding, which subsequently became worldwide news.
In 2009, the Dalai Lama came to Albany NY, where Raniere operated NXIVM, to give a speech. He was hosted by Raniere and two followers, Clare and Sara Bronfman, heiresses of the Seagram Liquor fortune. There was a great deal of controversy about the Dalai Lama’s visit. He was accused of supporting a cult. Raniere, however, used the Dalai Lama’s visit as a de facto endorsement of NXIVM. The Dalai Lama also wrote a preface to one of Raniere’s books, The Sphinx & Thelxiepeia.
As part of our reporting on NXIVM, Artvoice discovered that one of the Dalai Lama’s emissaries, Lama Tenzin Dhonden, allegedly had an affair with Sara Bronfman. This caused a scandal for Tenzin since he was publicly posing as a monk.
By Christine A. Chandler, M.A., C.A.G.S.
Artvoice recently reported on the Dalai Lama and his corrupt monk, Lama Tenzin Dhonden’s involvement with NXIVM.
This was not a fluke or an aberration, because what lies beneath a cult like NXIVM, is the cult of Tantra that the Dalai Lama and his sexually abusive monks have been importing into our country since the days of Trungpa Rinpoche: Tibetan Buddhism is not Buddhism as it pretends, it is a thousand year old cult of sexual abuse that uses women for their Tantric practices. That is why the Dalai Lama was willing to take money from Keith Raniere’s group:
Here is the news, reported all over Europe, about the favorite lama of the Dalai lama, Lama Sogyal of Lakar, that is being purposely repressed in the U.S.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/sexual-assaults-violent-rages-inside-dark-world-buddhist-teacher/
Now that Lama Sogyal has been outed and is hiding somewhere in Thailand with his harem, the women, just like those enablers of the cult of NXIVM (sexual abuse organizations always have female enablers) and the other corrupted Lamas, are infiltrating into many institutions to create chaos and havoc with their Tantra. What Keith Raniere is practicing is Tantra that nails all female energy down in a misogynistic paradigm, that these Dalai Lamas and the other Lama sects all practice, while putting on their grand theatre and using traditional Mahayana Buddhism, and humble monk personas to fool people in the West. The Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Buddhism has been the biggest hoax on the Western world, and is here to create havoc and chaos, immorality and confusion in all our western institutions.
How do I know? Because I was a western Tibetan Buddhist, who escaped their net of thought-control inside their sanghas. Few do. It is how they kept their own country in poverty and misery for the last 1000 years, and are now China’s soft power to destroy the fabric of our country. Theirs is a civilization jihad that operates by stealth, and comes with a smiling face and peaceful, happy rhetoric when they were, in fact, the religion of the wrathful Khans. That history is purposely repressed.
Someone sent me your material when it was reporting about the Dalai Lama and I thought that you might want to know what Lies Beneath their masks:
My Blog:
www.extibetanbuddhist.com
Thought you might be interested that the Dalai Lama’s behavior and support of NXIVM was not a simple mistake. Anything that ‘nails all female energy down” is what the Dalai Lama would be behind and support, just as he supported this Lama Sogyal for the last 40 years, who kept harems of Western women, whom he beat and treated like slaves:
Tantric sex is what is being used and is the lure. Even Katy Perry mentioned it during her stint posing as a knowledgeable recording star and not for the Satanic whore that she is. In a joke, she said she was practicing Kundalini yoga the previous night. For those not familiar with Kundalini yoga, there are two distinct paths. The right-handed path is alleged to be the fastest way to attain enlightenment. It does this by blocking energy from this root chakra and this keeps out sexual energy from debasing the process. However there is the left-handed path.
The left-handed path is the path of Kundalini Tantra sex. It draws its power from the root chakra or the goddess Shakti. In other word, this root chakra is left open -- wide open because it's what participants want to awaken. People may dismiss it, but it does cause change. This is what would be used if done to attain earthly power or prowess.
The number of stars involved in Kundalini Tantra ex is astonishing, but the thing to remember is that the Great Beast Aleister Crowley based his sexual rituals on this:
http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/Unleashing_the_Beast.htm
Yes, he did not invent the rituals. They part of the practice of Kundalina Tantra sex. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this was what Raniere was using since disciples were promised seeing "a blue light".
https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/In-Raniere-s-shadows-3341644.php
In Raniere's shadows
Women recall manipulation, underage encounters
Women who have had sex with Keith Raniere say it was billed as a spiritual experience, a transfer of his godlike energy.
One said Raniere told her their union would make her see a blue light.
Another recalled him explaining a threesome would cure the pain of childhood molestation — that she could then start to view sex as just sex.
And in 1984, when a woman objected to 24-year-old Raniere having sex with her underage sister, the woman said Raniere explained her sister's soul was much older than her biological age. The girl was 15 or 16 at the time. But according to the man who came to view himself as an enlightened being, she was a Buddhist goddess meant to be with him.
BOOM! There it is. The proof this cult was tied to Buddhism. The press sure isn't pushing that aspect. Again:
she was a Buddhist goddess meant to be with him.
More:
He explained how there was a profound event that would often happen to the women who became intimate with him, sometimes they would even see a blue light. ... Ultimately I agreed to be intimate with Keith, and it was just as he said. I even saw a blue light, but I don't think I told him so. I remember thinking, 'Wow, my brain is really susceptible to the power of suggestion.'"
No, she was not susceptible to suggestion. This is an actual occurrence ... and it's not good.
I may add to this as I find more. But for now, I'll put my remembrance of the book in the comment section.
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13Buddha ago
I am neither disputing nor agreeing with your research and comments, and I am neither supporting nor disparaging Buddhism, notwithstanding that a better understanding is needed which are my intentions at the moment.
There are 3 main schools of Buddhism - Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. Vajrayana is considered by some scholars to be a branch of Mahayana while others consider it to be a separate tradition. Within each school are many different traditions and practices, and there is a lot more to the explanation I am providing for each of the 3 schools.
Theravada School - translates to the "Way of the Elders," and is the oldest form of Buddhism. It relies on the Pali canon. This is the collection of the Buddha's earliest teachings and discourses. It is most popular in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos). It is often considered more conservative, following older teachings of the Buddha and not adding widely accepted new scriptures or teachings. Monks follow rigorous training rules, eat only what is freely offered, and often spend hours of their day sitting in formal meditation. The focus is to cultivate liberation and become an "arhat," or fully awakened being which is done through meditation practice, taking refuge in the "Three Jewels" (the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha), and the cultivation of the Noble Eightfold Path (Wise View; Wise Intention; Wise Speech; Wise Action; Wise Livelihood; Wise Effort; Wise Mindfulness; and Wise Concentration).
Mahayana School - it is the largets school of Buddhism and is popular in many countries in Asia, Nepal, Tibet, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia. The term Mahayana means "great vehicle" and refers to the path of the bodhisattva. The aim of its practice is generally not to attain enlightenment for onseself but to cultivate buddhahood for all sentient beings. Many people take the bodhisattva vows which is the promise to return to this world until all living beings are freed from suffering. Monks tend to live with less strict rules. In many Mahayana traditions, there are teachings outside the Pali canon. Meditation practice also includes more chanting and mantras, especially in Tibetan traditions.
Vajrayana School - It is sometimes considered a type of Mahayana and is sometimes called Tantric or Esoteric. The most famous form of this school is Tibetan Buddhism. It involves the use of tantras or specific spirtital techniques which help individuals gain enlightenement as quickly as possible. Many practices in Vajrayana schools are known only to senior teachers and serious students which leads to quite a bit of mystery arounfd practices.
Many of us in the West use the term Tibetan Buddhism to describe all Vajrayana traditions, but there are many different types of Vajrayana. The Dalai Lama is the leader of the tradition known as "Gelug" or "Gelugpa," sometmes referred to as the "Yellow Hat School." It emerged in the 15th century and is considered to be the purest form of Tibetan Buddhism. Gelugpa practices revolve around Lamrim (a Buddhsit text), from the teachings of Atisha (an 11th century Buddhist Bengali religious leader and master), which focuses on the journey to enlightenment as taught by the Buddha. Concentration can be achieved by meditation and sparking the bodhisattva within. It teaches following the monastic code as a means of achieving the state of nirvana.
Now, hetting to "Tantric" Buddhism... What is the first thing Westerners think when they hear the word, "Tantra?" SEX. The story goes that in ancient India there existed a Tantric culture which unlike prudish, dualistic Western spirtuality, was a sex-positive, proto-feminist, sensual paradise.
Actually, Tantra arose as a reclamation of practices that had been excluded from or minimized in Orthodox Vedic Hinduism, the maistream Yoga traditions, and heterodox traditions like Buddhism. These practices included ritual innovations, magical spells, viloence, mind-aletring substances, and sex.
Tantras were then a type of esoteric text which arose in different Hindu lineages beginning in the 5th century. These texts were also written by Buddhists and thus came to have a massive influence theoiughout India and beyond between the 9th and 14th centuries.
The reclamation and spiritual recipe books yielded a worldview which supported and explained the practices in them. This pairing of philosophy and practice is axiomatic in Indian religion and is sometimes referred to as view and path.
The view f Tantric texts was generally consistent across Hindu lineages. It stated that all of reality is an expression of divine energies. To be born is to flow out from the unmanifest Godhead, and enlightenment is to flow back. Yes, there were extreme sexual activities involved that you can read about in one of the links provided.
Tantric trditions of Hindisim and Buddhism have been simultaneously infamous as well as poorly understood. Due to the strong association of tantric traditions with magical pracvtices, and of the traditions with sexuality and violent ritual practices, the tantric tradition practices have, over the past few centuries at least, been associated with black magic in India. Tantric Buddhism and Hindiism are extremely complex philosophically. There are thousands upon thousands of ancient manuscripts written about the teachings.
Anyway, it's complicated. And yes, anything that is initially meant to be good can be changed into something sick or evil.
https://library.brown.edu/cds/BuddhistTempleArt/buddhism2.html https://oneminddharma.com/types-of-buddhism/ http://tibetpedia.com/lifestyle/religious-life/gelugpa-sect/
migratorypatterns ago
Obviously, you have a depth of understanding, but there are some pernicious errors that you seem to have acquired through faith -- and that's not a bad thing. What would you do if a post citing the numerous abuse of The Vatican and its clergy/pope were answered in this way? Yes, there's the theology and then there's the hidden agenda. We could even use the Freemasons as an example. I'm sure there are hundreds ... thousands that have no idea what is going on and yet they're members. But they haven't arrived at that charmed circle. I don't have time to go into everything, but for starters:
There is confusion here. Tantric practices pertain to Kundalini, and as stated in the OP, if you involve sex, you are not after enlightenment. NOT. Kundalini has two paths: a right and a left. The practice of the right is the quickest way to enlightenment. The practice of the left involves sex and is for earthly powers and does nothing except make one powerful.
No, he does not. He says he belongs to the Yellow Hat, but he belongs to the Black Hat, the hat they all deny exists.
To make clear, this is not bashing the teachings of Buddha. NOT. This is bashing what is occurring. The same would be true of the Catholic Church. The people that gave themselves to Christ are the not the ones committing crimes, but the hierarchy that allowed child abuse did. Don't take this personally. I would never criticize someone who is leading a good life and doing good work.
13Buddha ago
No, @migratorypatterns, I do not take it personally and am really not surprised. Seems there's nothing new under the sun anymore. Being a dreamer at heart, I must focus on the inherent teachings of a religion and not its leaders and clergy.
think- ago
I'm afraid in this case it is important to focuse on the teachings as well, you can't seperate the left-hand tantric teachings from the Lamas.