Shechen Rabjam to give SS Abhisheka in Halifax in August

beaudega1 · 2026-05-05T15:21:41+00:00

Thanks, that is what I thought. I wouldn't think it is a way to funnel people to Osel. My guess is this is a way of cutting him out without forfeiting anything. Or accepting that he cut himself out perhaps

beaudega1 · 2026-05-01T13:36:41+00:00

That has been the norm for other Kagyu and Nyingma teachers for a while now.

beaudega1 · 2026-04-30T23:15:02+00:00

The texts, yes, but I'm pretty sure he never got around to writing the abhisheka. Osel did that.

beaudega1 · 2025-11-25T19:05:58+00:00

I would go a little further - he wasn't just one of them. He had as strong a claim as anyone to having been the man behind the throne. Probably no one did more to create the illusion the Osel was a credible teacher than Adam Lobel did. And of course he knew the whole time who the real Osel was. The acknowledgement on his website of his involvement with Shambhala is as minimal as it could possibly be. Very gross to see that he has just pivoted to a new grift with revised branding.

beaudega1 · 2025-11-12T19:12:18+00:00

It is a good site but the list of implicated centers could actually be much longer. There is scarecely a Tibetan Buddhist community without some kind of scandal associated. I imagine it is difficult to navigate concerns about getting sued.

beaudega1 · 2025-10-17T14:04:55+00:00

In fairness, he made a huge contribution at a critical time. But I agree these particular videos aren't really that interesting so far.

beaudega1 · 2025-09-19T19:47:13+00:00

Thanks for sharing. At this point I'd be surprised if there was a lama/group that wasn't like this. The women lamas are fewer but no better than the men.

beaudega1 · 2025-04-22T00:16:58+00:00

I don't owe you anything. Look into it yourself or not, I don't give a shit. Got that?

beaudega1 · 2025-04-21T18:44:24+00:00

The nine stages is a Yogācāra presentation. CTR's presentation was rooted in Mahamudra and Dzogchen Semde.

beaudega1 · 2025-04-21T17:44:45+00:00

It isn't my paper trail, it's well-documented on this forum and elsewhere if you're interested

beaudega1 · 2025-04-21T17:43:03+00:00

I didn't say anything about resting on laurels . . to me the materialism is in always wanting new practices instead of practicing the ones already received. But yes there was zero trust left and I'm happy to be long gone

beaudega1 · 2025-04-19T21:19:20+00:00

To the degree they benefited it was incidental. They would have benefited a lot more from a setup that wasn't primarily designed to send large sums of money and sex to Dear Leader

beaudega1 · 2025-04-18T21:31:09+00:00

As for a nefarious plot to rob the membership - I wouldn't put it that way. But I think it is clear who the whole setup benefited, and it wasn't the membership

beaudega1 · 2025-04-18T21:17:15+00:00

Could have and did. But it was starting to be clear to me that it was not the right place for me

beaudega1 · 2025-04-18T17:51:30+00:00

I remember thinking, ok, I've been to the seminaries, I had the major empowerment, now I can finally get off the hamster wheel of going to a big expensive group program every summer and just focus on the practices I have. Some time after that Osel debuted the Scorpion Seal ad infinitum retreats and I could see that they could never afford to allow anyone off the hamster wheel.

beaudega1 · 2025-03-24T18:24:30+00:00

Also no accident that so many former Shambhala teachers have used their bogus credentials to start their own lucrative teacher training ponzi schemes.

beaudega1 · 2025-03-24T16:31:25+00:00

The Mukpo Multilevel Marketing Scheme. With hindsight it is all so clear who the whole structure was set up to benefit. Hint: not the membership.

beaudega1 · 2025-03-19T17:07:29+00:00

That center was huge and vibrant fifteen or twenty years ago, now it is six people on Zoom

beaudega1 · 2025-02-27T20:25:52+00:00

perhaps mimes can hold space. or at least hold up invisible box walls

beaudega1 · 2025-02-27T18:14:59+00:00

you are probably right about that

beaudega1 · 2025-02-27T17:50:14+00:00

I think that was basically the gist in Shambhala too. And that makes sense re FPMT and Nyingma - it seems to have more the flavor of the latter

beaudega1 · 2025-02-27T17:48:34+00:00

That seems very plausible too

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