Gabriel Mizrahi

How would you talk to kids about this?

Where is the line between being age-appropriate and being protective?

How much detail should I go into in trying to keep them safe?

And what else should I be doing for my kids as it relates to this organization?

Signed, getting fussed about how to discuss the fact that this organization betrayed my trust.

I'm not trying to cuss, but I do think it's a plus to tell my kids what goes on there, even if it's treasonous.

My favorite L. Frank Baum novel.

Yeah, no, I take your point.

Humans are humans, even the ones who meditate, I guess.

So before we go on, I got to share some interesting stuff I learned reading up on this place.

I'll keep this short, but I just feel like it might shed some light on her story.

So first of all, this organization was founded by the students of a guy named Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, whom I have heard of.

He's quite a famous Tibetan Buddhist master, and he's a major figure in the spread of Buddhism in the West.

Probably because he wrote a ton of books that are quite famous and apparently gave some absolutely fire lectures in his day.

But this guy was very unusual.

He was kind of the bad boy of Buddhism, if you want to think of it that way.

He smoked.

He drank heavily.

He had sexual relationships with a number of students.

He reportedly had multiple quote-unquote spiritual wives, some of whom were apparently minors, some of whom described him as abusive.