Dear all and All,
Ha Ha. Yes, the world is a funny place with many opportunities for humorous reflection. Sometimes witty or scholarly reflection can also be hijacking a thread as an "I can do this" power trip, or hijacking the thread may actually be skillful real-time political misdirection and obfuscation to prevent discussion of the issues. So what to do? Maybe DW is not the place to attempt a responsible discussion of the issues facing the IDC.
So, what to do?????????
Perhaps there should be a way forward that allows for an ongoing consensus solution to the issues facing the IDC. Otherwise the individuals from within and without of the Dzogchen Community, who are trying to promote failure of the Community, through creating a possible super-spreader calamity at Merigar, etc. - may win.
Please carefully observe the potentially tragic situation, work with circumstances and do your best.
It is important to have an open, friendly, and prosperous Dzogchen Community based on easy equal access to the living Transmission Lineage and all the archived Teachings of ChNN. This can be achieved by:
1. Enabling regular and easy Direct introductions, and Lung Reading Authorizations.
2. Enabling access to living Lineage holders for explanations of each Secondary Practice.
3. Allowing Members to have access to the Teachings held in the Digital and Transcript Archives.
4. Enabling a discussion of the issues through ongoing moderated Zoom conferences.
5. Allowing each decision affecting the future of the IDC to be decided by a simple vote of the Members on each issue.
If you want to have a Dzogchen Community with these features, then you can do something!!!!!!
You can write to the individuals who are responsible and share your thinking at:
[email protected]
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For the “office” email, include a tag line: “Please pass to Gakyil of Merigar and responsible individuals.”
Also, write to your own Gakyils and anyone else who should be responsible for the continuation of the valid Transmission Lineage of ChNN.
Again, please think about what will happen to the reputation of the Dzogchen Community if a teaching event at Merigar becomes known as a super-spreader event? Suppose even only one person gets sick and dies, and it somehow is traceable to this event?
ChNN gave Direct Introduction, regularly on the web, using the Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje. Why can’t others do the same?
Maybe this Direct Introduction situation is a delicate matter that is critical to the success and survival of the Transmission Lineage of the Dzogchen Community. Perhaps this and other issues are deserving of further careful consideration by responsible individuals through moderated zoom conferences - before going forward.
So all jokes aside, shame, shame, shame on those administrators of the IDC who would put the reputation of the Dzogchen Community at serious risk by creating a possible super-spreader event at Merigar - for the chance to curry favor with a possible “new” Dzogchen Master of the Dzogchen Community.
Perhaps this is "absolutely wrong" and the world is watching.
Shame, Shame, Shame!!!
Most sincerely,
Bob Kragen
PS While it is a much smaller issue, than appearing to advertize an entry into the Teachings of ChNN when it is not, the ongoing use of the phrase, “Accredited SMS Instructor” when that individual is only a base level instructor, is boldfaced fraud because the appearance is that Instructor is presenting themselves as approved by ChNN to teach all 9 levels of the SMS. Instructors who advertise themselves as SMS Instructors must include the level at which they were approved by ChNN to teach the SMS, and should note that that approval was only to teach the SMS, through that level.
It is suggested that administrators who promote false teaching credentials should resign because they are giving the Dzogchen Community a bad name.
Also, in the two communications of 2016 it was clear that SMS Instructors were not empowered to teach everything just because they were an SMS Instructor. The criteria for teaching a Secondary Practice was many times noted as “having accomplished that practice.”
Perhaps any SMS Instructors who put themselves forward as being authorized for what they are not, should not / not be allowed to teach within the IDC, as they give the IDC a bad reputation for false claims of spiritual authorization from ChNN when perhaps it is only themselves putting themselves forward for their own fame, fortune and power trip. Shame, SHAME on those Instructors who should know better and are willfully giving the IDC a bad name.
Perhaps shouting "theater" in a crowded fire (hijacking the thread with wit or scholarship) is not appropriate in a time like this where timely action on the part of Members of the IDC might avert calamity.