Hi All, here are the photos, no-one has to go to FB. I'm not a great fan of it, to be honest. There are pics of Ole, standing alone as well. Which I think is a bit of a denial, however if he can still stand on his own is still great. His condition did get a lot worse since last year, when we saw him (had to) with Jigme La. Ole's absent confused look comes over pulpubly on one
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Hi All, we went so see Karmapa on the day of his lecture. Ole wasn't there at all but we suspected that and went specifically for the day of the lecture. A friend of mine saw a video of Karmapa and Ole's wife no.3, Anne, helping Ole on both sides, so he could be walking to the Stupa on the day of the inaguration. We went up after the lecture with yet another friend, to see the new
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Letif, all I can see is a full stop. I guess u've made your point :-))
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I found the book 'buddha and love' really poor. Didn't make sense at all. Just some rambling on about some wierd ideas. And in those days I really wanted to make sense of it. I remember I tried to reread and reread it again and again until I found some meaning. After the third time I gave up and 'lost' my copy at some place or another. Didn't have the heart to throw
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Hi, No, haven't seen it. Nor am I looking at it now sorry. Even one single Foto of him makes me sick. Because I believed in his shit, I lost everything. I actually would love to see him in prison. He is kind of already in one, in his own strange, confused crazy mind. I guess all the damage he did to his followers and poor wives all falls back on him now. We went to see 'hannah�
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7 of 108 I just remembered, if u speak German u might find Stephan Pende Wormland's Podcast 'reines Gewahrsein' on Spotify interesting. He used to be in a cult and made his way out, his own views, teaching meditation I believe mostly in Austria.
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Hi :) I've chosen this name because of the T-shirt they were selling to a point. The statement 'freedom of speech' on the shirt boils my blood. Because in dw there is absolutely NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH!! So sick... Yeah, I 've done the bodhipath thing. Whereas one thing I don't want to do anymore is cult-hopping. I' m just doing the stuff I find right, things that
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to answer my own question, I have recently heared Anne was pushing some pram around in Immenstadt, somebody saw her. Well, this somebody I talked to saw her personally. so the little girl must be at least alive. hurray!!! How sad for her to have to be involved with this lot .. what karma... if there is such a thing at all. oh man.
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Hi :-) thank you so much for sharing! I feel it is very important to carry on writing about our experiences with this group. Of course there are lots of messages here, also a lot about older insider information, which I found very helpful in making my decision to definitely leave the group and never look back. However people who newly left ( I started leaving about 2 years ago the completio
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By the way, has anyone seen the baby girl,who must be about 2 years old now??? Any pictures???? I saw Anne carrying her around in one of those 'strap onto your body' carriers, so that no-one actually saw the baby's face. The baby girl must be running around in the garden now at the EC, where they mostly live. Where is the baby?? Karmapa came to visit with his son a few years
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Hi Everyone :) just found this, thought might be helpful to others as well, in order to asess wether the group for them is a cult or not. I can definitely tick off many of the points made. We suggest that you check all characteristics that apply to your or your loved one's group, then print this browser page for future reference. You may find that your assessment changes over time, w
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Hi Everyone, it took me months on end to finally dare to write here. I was in the group fairly active for about 6 years and left recently, so I'm an 'enemy' so to speak. Now some trolls can get very busy ... I'm not going to write down my story because than it would be easy to guess who I am exactly. I know that's not very helpful but I have to protect myself. I
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