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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Scott Edelstein, When Spiritual Leaders 'Stray'

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Spiritual leaders often have great influence over their followers but there are times, author Scott Edelstein says, when some leaders will use their position of power to manipulate, shame and abuse others. Edelstein discusses how spiritual leaders can "stray," even become predatory, and suggests ways for a healthy student-teacher relationships, which he lays out in his book, "Sex and the Spiritual Teacher."

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1:17.6

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

1:24.4

There's a scandal of sorts brewing in the Buddhist world and it involves a former guest

1:31.0

on this show.

1:32.4

Sakyong Mipam Rinpoche who wrote a book about the art of conversation and is the leader

1:38.3

of Shambhala International was on the show a couple months ago and has subsequently

1:46.6

announced that he's stepping aside amidst an investigation into his alleged sexual abuse

1:52.6

of students.

1:54.6

And it goes beyond that for Shambhala International which is a big organization and at least by

2:01.7

meditation standards a pretty big organization has centers all over the place all over the

2:05.4

country and in Canada and perhaps even beyond.

2:08.8

But according to Tricycle which is a Buddhist publication, the entire governing council

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