[Buddha-l] Secrecy

[Joy Vriens]

Hi Chris,

>I pretty much doubt both accounts - particularly the revised version. June does 
>have rather a big "radical feminist agenda". There are other far less attention 
>grabbing claims in her book which anyone can see are sheer unfounded nonsense 
>made to fit that agenda. 

You may be right, but it's difficult to see why a person would go through all the trouble and expose herself to unavoidable criticism and rejection. What would be driving her?

http://www.anandainfo.com/tantric_robes.html

Apart from that, what I found disturbing were the (karmic) threats and intimidating stories and rumours that she said were used to try and make her stick to secrecy. I myself have witnessed similar threats in a different context. 

I think all this is connected with the atmosphere of secrecy, ambiguity and triumphalism that Tibetan Buddhism (or the hardcore tantric adepts that seemed to have prevailed in the end) surrounds "the only path to the highest realisation" in Buddhism with. I personally think that Tibetan Buddhism has a lot to gain by at least making tantric buddhism one of the many paths to equally "high" realisations. 
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