Lawyer and women’s trauma counsellor Pam Rubin explains that the conditions which foster sexual abuse in any organization have the exact same effect in Buddhist organizations. “One of our blind spots is to recognize that, in spite of holding tremendous wisdom… we’re still subject to the ordinary recipes for abuse.”
Watch: Blinding ourselves to abuse

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