Shozan Jack Haubner: When Your Sangha’s Sex Scandal Goes Viral

Shozan Jack Haubner went to the monastery in search of wisdom—and left with a sex scandal. Haubner joins Tricycle’s executive editor Emma Varvaloucas in this podcast to discuss how writing helps him unravel the “big things” in life; the patterns of behavior commonly seen in communities where sexual abuse occurs between teacher and student; and his advice for any group that has a problem that’s been driven underground. “It’s alive,” he says, “and it’s calling for you to deal with it.

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Very interesting touching conversation 🙏

Wonderful candid interview about the patriachy in the Buddhist commmunities. I had a ‘me too’ moment with self- described rogue teacher RDLR almost 2 yrs ago. He eliminated me from his class because I called him out on inappropriate instagram posts, one example being a reiki session w/his self-described student that was messy and smelled super flirtatious. He made me have a FaceTime with him, bad boundary number 1, so I cannot prove all the horrible things said to me. He said he was a sex positive feminist about his shared encounter. I will be sending in an email of my story to Tricycle. I think buddhist communties can hold each other accountable, should.
Thank you.