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Dorje
Kawa Lhundrub, two years ago you said Ole Nydahl was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Now it sounds like you are making entertainment out of that. Watching a stream of someone is quite different to being in their presence. I think Ole Nydahl, as with all ageing beings, is worthy of more respect.
Yes I said that based on what I heard from other sources. I wanted to see if that is true and this experience confirmed to me beyond any doubt that Ole is indeed suffering from of Alzheimer's. Although there were some unintentionally funny moments, I was not entertained when watching that stream, I was sad and disturbed.
I completely agree it is time to respect Ole. It is also time to respect his health condition and let him retire. He should not be dragged from center to center and from lecture to lecture, he should have rest and medical care. It is time to stop pretending that he is a lama and that he is in good shape, especially people in Ole's retinue should stop writting letters to his followers in Ole's name, this is just plain manipulation.
For the sake of transparency Diamondway as an organisation should also stop trying to cower up Ole's state of health. You cannot have a person with advanced Alzheimer's as a head of Registered association (eingetragener Verein), there is a financial and decision making responsibility towards the memebers of the association as well as towards German government.