Re: Amrit Desai and Kripalu Center. Our ashram (about which serious ethical questions regarding the leadership were raised) had a kind of informal friendship with the Kripalu Center (Amrit Desai's former group), so I studied its recovery with interest. I felt very happy about how much better the Kripalu resolved the crisis than about how we basically avoided ours, but am uncomfortable that Amrit Desai continued in the guru business.
One thing which troubles me is how gurus, after they've been "busted" (for acts of hypocrisy) often eventually become gurus again without mentioning anything about their past mistakes. Amrit Desai's new website: http://www.amrityoga.com/ ...offers (so far as I can tell) no narration of his shady past (although Kripalu Center is mentioned) which included unhappy episodes of a sexual nature. While it is very understandable that he doesn't want people to know about his past mistakes, I would prefer that prospective students be able to judge the background themselves, to help balance their possibly very positive emotional response to the ashram environment. In many areas of civic life, government requires that fiduciaries provide disclosure of risks their clients are subject to. In many areas of the country, the whereabouts of sexual predators are disclosed to the community. How about some disclosure requirements for gurus? Cam --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > Over the years since, the community has rebuilt itself, > dedicated to the principles of yoga and healthy spirituality that the > crisis of betrayal taught them. And the master too claims he has > learned important lessons from this process." [Jack Kornfield]
