Meditation for December 31st, 2016
Buddhist Spotlight
A lot has been reported on the Catholic Church sexual abuse by priests, but what if I told you that the sexual abuse perpetrated by Buddhist Monks and teachers are much higher?
Why hasn’t it been reported on?
It has been so rampant in Bhutan, Cambodia, and Thailand that they have issued condoms so that the abused won’t catch STDs.
You know I have issues with the Dalai Lama, and the issues gonin with reports of sexual abuse from exiled monks all over the world.
In Tibet, it is common practice for many centuries to send very young children to the monasteries to live. They are brought to the temples before they’ve had a chance to have a sexual experience and not have a say about a life of celibacy.
There has been sex abuse cases in Buddhist temples in Europe in free thinking places like the Netherlands, Austria, and even here in the United States.
And like the Catholic Church, American Buddhist temples are paying off victims to keep the scandal under wraps.
But unlike the Catholic Church, the Buddhist sexual abuse scandal is being ignored entirely by the mainstream media.
Is it because the media is liberal and therefore afraid to shine a light on its own beloved religion?
Is it because the Catholic Church is western, so therefore easier to understand while Buddhism is eastern and therefore too confusing?
Is it because the majority of Catholic victims are American while the majority of Buddhist victims are from third world locals?
The point is the prayer flags, the cross, and the Michael Jackson music all come from a place of pain and suffering of others. Keep meditatating, you horrible person.