It's difficult to take back things you've said.
On trying to right a past wrong.
In Judaism, we have a lesson that lashon ha-ra is a devastating sin, because its damage is almost impossible to undo.
Yet icarusancalion is nonetheless making the effort. I know her mainly because she writes fanfics that Lis enjoys. But she also is a Buddhist, and used to be a Buddhist nun. And left her temple, Kunzang Palyul Choling, under hostile terms.
She's has recently come to accept that that hostility was because of her actions. She has spent years saying bad things about her teacher, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo. And she's now realized that the things she was saying when she was posting as The Buddha From Brooklyn, and as Longchenpa, were, at best, misleading, and really more like lies.
The Internet being what it is, those rumors and lies are almost impossible to take back. But she's trying.
She's asked people to link to her apology to Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo. She's hoping that if enough people link to it, the truth will overtake the lies.
It's a difficult task. But she's trying.
In different religious traditions, we have different terms for the process she's going through. Redemption. T'shuvah.
I don't know what the Buddhist term is, off the top of my head -- I'm sure some of you who are Buddhist know. But I know that I wish her well on this attempt.
In Judaism, we have a lesson that lashon ha-ra is a devastating sin, because its damage is almost impossible to undo.
Yet icarusancalion is nonetheless making the effort. I know her mainly because she writes fanfics that Lis enjoys. But she also is a Buddhist, and used to be a Buddhist nun. And left her temple, Kunzang Palyul Choling, under hostile terms.
She's has recently come to accept that that hostility was because of her actions. She has spent years saying bad things about her teacher, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo. And she's now realized that the things she was saying when she was posting as The Buddha From Brooklyn, and as Longchenpa, were, at best, misleading, and really more like lies.
The Internet being what it is, those rumors and lies are almost impossible to take back. But she's trying.
She's asked people to link to her apology to Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo. She's hoping that if enough people link to it, the truth will overtake the lies.
It's a difficult task. But she's trying.
In different religious traditions, we have different terms for the process she's going through. Redemption. T'shuvah.
I don't know what the Buddhist term is, off the top of my head -- I'm sure some of you who are Buddhist know. But I know that I wish her well on this attempt.