In the wake of tragedies involving Zen teachers Barry Magid July 29th 2017

In the wake of scandals and tragedies of self destruction involving Buddhist teachers questions arise about how can someone supposed to be so wise fall into such behavior? It's a perennial problem for people to try to understand what do they think a teacher has attained. What's the difference between a teacher and student? What's the relationship between what we do in the zendo and how we work through our personal psychological problems?

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