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In other cases where there are accusations of abuse such as with Kalu and Sogyal (who were both seen as being far more accomplished than Nydahl), the accusations have been about very real and quite mundane uses of coercion, threats, peer pressure, etc. which is exactly the same thing that everyone else on here has written about in regard to Nydhal.

So if someone claims that somehow Nydahl got "inside their head" then it would seem obvious that all these blatant techniques for manipulation were at work here. I understand it might be painful to admit that all the warning signs were missed and that they were duped by a con artist, this does not therefore mean that the con artist is some master magician and that vajrayana is the height of the black arts used to seduce women and feed off their sexual energy.

It seems to me that one way to pull Nydahl's teeth is to debunk these myths and show them for what they really are. I don’t mean to dismiss karam-mudra's experience at all, in fact it seems to me even more damning to DWB to expose these abuses and de-mystify just how they work.

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Alexander Nevsky
Does anyone know why the discussion on www.lioncity.net about diamond way was closed down?

Alex it’s not only lioncity web page that was closed. The diamondway cult blog was closed down too in 2010.

[diamondwaycult.blogspot.com]

I wonder what the reason was and whether Ole Nydahl’s henchmen hacked into those web pages to lock them down and to get into IP addresses of people who have posted there. I don’t know.

Rick Ross you better buy yourself good software for protection of your web page because this discussion is indeed worth diamonds.

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Kevin Curran
These experiences are hard lived and difficult to come to terms with. I am writing on this forum because I feel this story has to be told and heard.

Kevin I am sorry there that you have had the ideal picture of your teacher popped but that’s life. You have to get a grip and accept things as they are. Ole is not an honest man. I know it is extremely difficult to come to terms with what you have been through but maybe in long term you will find it liberating. Maybe it is better for you and your friends not to belong to the diamondway centre in Ireland, which anyway has only one Irish member.

Dublin diamondway is a very dangerous sect and it is time for Irish government to step in. It is Ole Nydahl’s monstrous child which I hope will bit him in the ass. It is his own making, a direct result of his own decisions. He had other options to choose from but he didn’t and that is the whole point. Things could have happened differently should Nydahl have acted as an honest person. The proof is in the pudding.

Whether these decisions were entirely his own or was he misguided and misinformed by Steven James is not entirely clear. There is a substantial body of evidence of James’ manipulative involvement, nevertheless it is difficult to know to which extend he was a factor in Ole’s decision making process.

Ole Nydahl if you don’t come clear on the Dublin issue this will not go away. The best for you is to admit you made a mistake and to apologise. Swallow your pride. It is in your own well understood self interest.

Steven James’ story is a sad one. I used to like him as a teacher and he was among my favourites. Sadly it now became clear that he did manipulate and did alter Hannah Nydahl’s decisions relating Dublin after her death. So we need to ask ourselves a question of what position does he think he has in the diamondway and the real role he is playing. That’s very sad.

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I was reading this report into the alarming rise in anti-Semitism in Germany on the BBC this morning.

SteveLpool thanks for the link. Needless to say that the meditation hall in Warsaw was initially named Valhalla.
[hala.buddyzm.pl]

The name was latter changed into Buddha’s Hall after an upheaval it caused.

[hala.buddyzm.pl]

I suppose we all know what Valhalla was. Originally the name comes from the Norse mythology but this term was incorporated into Nazi ideology and it does not have good connotations.

[books.google.ie]

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[en.wikipedia.org]

The newspaper, which published the article about diamondway Buddhists from Warsaw protesting side by side with local Nazis against a Muslim mosque, has lost their case against the diamondway.

Maybe someone could give us some insight into this lawsuit.

Having said that I have to admit that Warsaw diamondway center can under no circumstances be classified in the same category as the Dublin one. The difference between the two is major. The Warsaw center, despite its right wing bend, does play its role as a place of transmission of Buddhist teachings and there is a lot of good happening there. It is a place of live Buddhist practice against the odds.

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Here on my blog you can find the positions of Sharmapa recording Nydahl and the Tantric teachings:

Marte Micaela I have read your blog. One brave woman you are, hey ;)

Good luck to you all!