stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

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tery walls, receiving ready responses to those “calling cards.” (Such
enticement, though, is hardly needed, given the documented propensity
of monks there to sneak out over the walls even without
solicitation.) In Tibet, while masturbation and oral sex are taboo,
whores are okay as long as you pay for their services yourself. In
Thailand, with a population that is 95% Buddhist, monks get their
names in the papers for having been caught with pornography,
sexual paraphernalia, and more than one woman at a time. And
that publicity is even independent of their Rajneesh-like collections
of vintage cars, some of which were obtained via the misuse of
temple funds. (Ironically, Kornfield himself practiced meditation
“in the remote jungles of Thailand” under the guru Ajahn Chah in
the early ’70s [Schwartz, 1996]. Perhaps the jungles there are simply
not “where the action is,” but in any case, the idea that precepts
are in general followed there or elsewhere in the East “by all
members of the religious community” in no way matches the facts,
as we have repeatedly seen. For more of the same purely wishful
thinking regarding “Eastern gurus,” see Andrew Harvey’s [2000]
conversation with Ken Wilber.)
And things could be different in contemporary India, building
upon the constraints “obeyed” by Ramakrishna and the like? Sadly,
no:
That little seven year old is a real Lolita. She’s the best lay
in the ashram (in Mehta, 1979).
Or, as one five-year-old boy in Rajneesh’s Poona center complained:
“Fuck, fuck, fuck, all we ever do is fuck!”
At least one “older and wiser” six-year-old girl in the same
community, however, saw things from a more adult perspective; for
she
delighted in grabbing men’s genitals through their robes.
Another offered to suck the penis of every man she saw in
the public showers (Franklin, 1992).
Of course, that situation did not improve upon Rajneesh’s messianic
move to America, where one could easily find three-year-old
girls sobbing their hearts out to their mothers:
None of the boys will fuck me!.... It’s not fair! Just because I
wear diapers they won’t fuck me. They said I’m a baby! (in
Franklin, 1992).