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Originally Posted by JOHNTY
GREETINGS EVERYONE,
Hardly a month goes by without some religious leader being had up for sexual and/or physical abuse of children, or of adults with learning difficulties. Though it's mostly men there are times when women are involved too - including nuns who well known for their physical abuse of children in convents or schools where they teach.
I appreciate that these problems do occur elsewhere, but the last thing you expect is for religious people to behave in this way.
Any ideas as to why?
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When one gets involved in spiritual training the skandhas (human afflictions) get sidelined. This may happen in a forced way to give the impression of spiritual progress, acknowledged positively by the superiors, mentors and trainers. However, after a time, often long after the rigors of a training or study environment have been left behind, the side-lined skandhas will re-assert themselves in a strong way, saying 'we are still here, acknowledge us'. If the training has not enabled the person to cope with this, and it is questionable which spiritual training does, s/he is set up for a fall.