In the interests of fairness I feel moved to add an update to a few posts I made on this forum in January 2012. Ironically, just a few weeks after posting my views I decided to walk away from the NKT, and I now practice within the Theravada tradition. It's certainly true that the demands and expectations on me piled up noticeably after I had signed on for the Foundation Programme, and
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Thank you Corboy and Tenzin Peljor for your replies to the post I made earlier. I've no need to defend the post I made earlier - my experience is as valid as anyone else's, and no one at NKT is making me believe anything. Moreover, I made it quite clear that I did not doubt other people's negative experiences of the organisation, I just disagree that we're talking about
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Corboy, I’ve no need to defend my opinion but I will just say this to you. Buddhism is all about accepting responsibility for one’s own actions and state of mind. I soon spotted copies of A Great Deception: The Ruling Lamas' Policies by the Western Shugden Society on sale at my local NKT centre. Realising that something was amiss, I spent many hours searching the internet and reading all
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Having read all the posts on this thread I feel moved to share my own experience of NKT. Two years have passed since I first walked into my local NKT centre. Had I been aware of the NKT's alleged cult-like tactics and the disagreements with HH Dalai Lama I would probably have stayed well clear. But I wasn't and I didn't. I'm still attending the General Programme (GP) of
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