"Human nature is a wild elephant."

Agreed.

I also like, "“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

Hello -- I am the journalist who wrote the feature in The Guardian newspaper in 1995, following the Janice Doe lawsuit against Sogyal Lakar aka Rinpoche . Since then I have been assembling evidence of Sogyal's promiscuous, sadistic sexual depravity and now have an extensive dossier of corroborated testimonies. There is not a scintilla of doubt that the allegations you see on the internet are truthful and accurate.

BTW -- Sogyal did not write the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Sogyal is barely literate and cannot read Tibetan.He left Tibet at age 2 and received a basic education in India. He was never trained as a lama. The idea for the TBOLD came from Christine Longaker. Patrick Gaffney did the research. Andrew Harvey wrote the book. Compare the style and content to other books by Harvey.