Buddhism in Japan

He was French, so that kind of made sense, and he loved Mikel Foucault, who championed pedophilia.

He is the professor who taught me about sexual impropriety inside of Japanese Buddhism and beyond.

This sexually inappropriate theme in Eastern religion continues with the Karmapa, who is just below the Dalai Lama in Tibetan Buddhism.

In 2019, he was accused of sexually assaulting a nun and was held accountable to fathering her child.

You know, I squeaked by and finished out.

And, um, I had met a guy who probably the most experienced meditative meditative person I knew at that time who had practiced in California for some years with a certain Japanese born teacher that he raved about.

So I went out West, I was in school in Ohio and I went out West searching for him, which proved more of a, uh, epic journey than I imagined.

But he's not regularly at any of the places he had found it.

So I asked my teacher, that guy I had gone searching for earlier, about ordination.

And he said, oh, finally, you want to do that.

And so I 2,500 ordained as a Zen priest, which really doesn't mean so much in the Japanese lineage that I got ordained in originally.

you know, Buddhist monks are celibate and don't make any money and beg for their food.