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    Speaking to BBC 'Sunday' for their in-depth investigation into abuses by Sogyal Rinpoche.

    Speaking to BBC 'Sunday' for their in-depth investigation into abuses by Sogyal Rinpoche.

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    Speaking at Inform Seminar: Sexual abuse framed by faith or belief

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    Speaking to BBC 'Sunday' for their in-depth investigation into abuses by Sogyal Rinpoche.

    Speaking to BBC 'Sunday' for their in-depth investigation into abuses by Sogyal Rinpoche.

    Here's something I've just dug up from the BBC world service archives. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0008b0d First aired on 8th September, 2019 (start at 30:16) BBC Sunday producer David Cook speaks with two authors of books on Sogyal Rinpoche, a former Rigpa trustee who raised serious concerns in the early 1990's over Sogyal's abuses and two other former students including myself. This episode, and the one published on the 1st September, 2019 - soon after Sogyal Rinpoc
     
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    As the activity of the mystic must end in the via negative, a theology of God’s absence, a craving for the cloud of unknowingness beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech, so art must tend towards anti-art, the elimination of the “subject”  (the “object”, the “image”), the substitution of chance for intention,

    and the pursuit of silence.

    […] Therefore, art becomes estimated as something to be overthrown. A new element enters the art-work and becomes  constitute of it:

    the appeal (tacit or overt) for its own abolition

    – and, ultimately, for the abolition of art itself. 

     

    Susan Sontag,  from ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’, 1966.

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