Latest / The Trauma Therapist / Episode 788: Speaking The Truth with Joseph Bobrow, PhD
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- 0:10All right, welcome back to the Trauma Therapist Podcast. My name is Gamiferson.
- 0:14My mission is to help trauma therapist be their incredible selves, to be
- 0:19human, to be real, not just a clinician. I'm a big believer
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- 0:37That's the Trauma Therapist Project dot com. Let's get started. So five four,
- 0:44three, two and one, our folks, welcome back to the podcast.
- 0:49I am very excited to have back Doctor Joseph Mobrow. Joseph, welcome,
- 0:55good to be here. Thank you so. Doctor Barborough practice of psychotherapy
- 0:59and analysis and is the author of three books. His approach is formed by
- 1:03years of practicing and teaching Zen mindfulness. He lives in practices in Studio City,
- 1:10California, and consults and teaches widely on psychotherapy, Buddhism and how they
- 1:15enrich each other in transforming suffering. Joseph is also the founding director in Roshi
- 1:22of Deep Streams Zan Institute, which offers in practice interdisciplinary education and community service.
- 1:27He's long been bringing together the best from Buddhist and psychodynamic traditions in his
- 1:33work to alleviate individual and collective anguish. Most recently, he developed intricative retreats
- 1:40from military vets and their families and care providers that help heal the unseen wounds
- 1:45of war. Doctor Barborough, Welcome back to the podcast. Great to be
- 1:49with you guy. Thanks, always excited to have you back here. Your
- 1:57directness, you were, openness, your obvious intellect and wisdom and your presence
- 2:07is just so refreshing and it's what I hope this podcast is all about,
- 2:13and it's why I love having you back here. So you had mentioned,
- 2:19you know, we kind of got in touch and the Dalai Lama's presence in
- 2:28the news was it was kind of a big issue for what seemed really like
- 2:32a blip. It didn't get didn't seem to get a lot of fair play,
- 2:38but it got some. So we were going to talk about that weird
- 2:45how did this land for you? What what came up? Well, what
- 2:51came up for me was that something was a myth and we needed to understand
- 2:57it better and that we needed to investigate and help clarify what had happened,
- 3:09and I went on social media and made that request to spiritual teachers who happened
- 3:20to be in my feed and just interrupt, Can you just briefly give our
- 3:24listeners some contexts for those who are like, what are we talking about here?
- 3:30Because some people might not be aware of what happened or Oh, there
- 3:38was an interaction the doll Lama had with a young Indian boy where there was
- 3:51some concern that there had been some sexualized inappropriate conduct on the doll lama part
- 4:00in some quarters and in other quarters of fears defending of the dial lama.
- 4:10The boy seemed quite uncomfortable during the interaction, Ah Dalai Lama kind of drew
- 4:21the boy to him in a way that the boy drew away from Dalai Lama
- 4:27drew him close to him again. They touched his Dalai Lama stuck out his
- 4:33tongue, which is apparently a form of communication and some some parts of Tibetan
- 4:43culture are kind of a greeting, and then the Dalai Lama asked the boy
- 4:47to suck his tongue, which the boy did not do, but but did
- 4:53their their heads touched and in the full video afterward, the family seemed happy,
- 5:02and the boys seemed seemed happy, and everything seemed fine. So that's
- 5:13I think a fairly objective statement of what had happened. Yeah, okay,
- 5:21so what what's your reflection on on on what occurred? Well, I just
- 5:27want to tell the story. Then I'll tell you my reflection and what if
- 5:31it was it it brought up for me? Which actually are it is that
- 5:39I deal with in book number four, which is called a true person of
- 5:46no rank awakening Buddhasts dream to save the world, And maybe I could get
- 5:49into some of that as we as we go on. So so here's this
- 5:59a little bit of narrative. I put it out on social media in a
- 6:03very non judgmental way, just that some things seemed to miss and could some
- 6:11of the well known and highly skilled colleagues of mine who were on say Instagram,
- 6:20but could we come together and talk things over, share perspectives and so
- 6:26on. And I was only able to do that with one of them privately.
- 6:32There didn't seem to be a lot of interest in an objective examination of
- 6:40what had happened, with the potential meaning of it, the ramifications of it,
- 6:46and I was very disappointed. So I continued to post a couple of
- 6:50times and to dialogue with his colleague of mine, who finally said that he
- 6:57wasn't going to die on that mountain, the mountain of raising concerns validating concerns
- 7:05about the doll a Lama's conduct. So that was a dead end. Then
- 7:13I saw probably the most popular first most teacher in America, if not in
- 7:20the Western world, posts something in which he completely defended the doll Lama and
- 7:30basically said, there's no reason to be concerned. Yeah, I don't want
- 7:35to get into names. I'm sorry that wasn't sermon, but I just don't
- 7:41want to get into names. But clearly one of the most respected people was
- 7:49also a therapist and basically was implying as much to do about nothing, and
- 7:56the doll Lama is pure and I can vouch for it that now. Now,
- 8:01this was very troubling to me because it eed elighted what I was asking
- 8:09for, which was an open consideration of the fact that something did not feel
- 8:16right about that interrection to many people, to most people. Then what happened
- 8:24was that same person with three or four of their friends, who all of
- 8:31them are the cream of the crop of American Buddhism, and all of whom
- 8:39were therapists and knowledgeable about trauma, came out with exactly the same message.
- 8:48We know his holiness, he would never do anything to harm this boy.
- 8:56It's just a silly, any kind of funny interaction. And plus the way
- 9:05that the video was released, it was probably done by the Chinese to get
- 9:11over on the Di Lama. Now, when I saw this, this,
- 9:16I mean I was really I was really stopped and disappointed that these people would
- 9:22take this kind of tack and not validate just just the observations that this boy
- 9:31seemed uncomfortable, I mean just that, and would not and would say,
- 9:37well, if you looked at the whole video, then you would see that
- 9:41everyone was ended up happy, completely avoiding the pressure that the boy might have
- 9:48felt to laugh and go along and with someone of great spiritual stature. So
- 9:56where this leads me is a number of different places that I could go,
- 10:05but I want to start with you know, co Hut talked about self objects
- 10:15and how we all need people who we can revere, who we can look
- 10:22up to, and I think we need such beings for all our lives.
- 10:28No matter who we are, we know that we stand on the shoulders of
- 10:33others who who we respect and admire and love. And clearly the Dali Lama
- 10:41represents that for many people, including these teachers I was referring to, and
- 10:48other researchers and teachers who've interacted with him through the years. However, I
- 10:56think that it is potentially traumatic to recognize the humanity of our self objects and
- 11:09to let in disappointment about their conduct, and so it doesn't happen, and
- 11:20so our spiritual teachers, sometimes our therapists, or our other teachers, or
- 11:26whoever we hold in this role for us, become idealized, and this permits
- 11:37a lot of damage to go on. So that's where I'd like to start
- 11:46the discussion. And again I talk about this in this fourth book, about
- 11:52how sometimes where are the last people to know the impacts of our we have
- 12:03examined ourselves. In fact, I'll stare with you in interaction with the Dilma
- 12:09earlier about this very thing. But just to start out with the point that
- 12:16experts, therapist, analysts, spiritual teachers often think that we're not subject to
- 12:24the same blind spots that ordinary humanity is. And we won't say that,
- 12:33but somewhere it's part of our self concepts, maybe just beneath the surface.
- 12:37And what I talk about in the fourth book is the importance of cracking the
- 12:46traces of the impacts that our conduct. Our conduct has impacts, many of
- 12:54which we're not aware of. So if we're not aware of them, if
- 13:00there is such a thing as the unconscious, which is a big point I
- 13:05make in the book too, how I think the unconscious needs to be woven
- 13:09into this. Then if we acknowledge that we're often the last to know the
- 13:16impacts of our conducts, then we should want to ask and follow up.
- 13:22And when someone comes to us and raises an issue, we didn't brush them
- 13:26away. We say, well, please, you may be the prophet.
- 13:31You may be seeing things I missed, so I want to hear from you.
- 13:35I want to weave that in because I want to maximize the beneficial impacts
- 13:43of my conduct, and if they've not been beneficial, I want to know.
- 13:48So I was very troubled that people not only of stature, but of
- 13:56wisdom and intelligence and experience would not even raise the possibility that there was something
- 14:05amiss, and would subtly convey that there might have been something wrong with the
- 14:11people who were who were reading stuff into it, and an American kind of
- 14:18anxiety about sexual abuse, a kind of what was COVID, a kind of
- 14:26pandemic of worry about sexual abuse. It's the American puritanical culture which is reading
- 14:35in which doesn't understand the Tibetan culture. I mean, these arguments were not
- 14:41only upside down to me, but they're very troubling and filled with denihialism,
- 14:46and I am troubled by that, if I may hear so. When this
- 14:54first happened, which was a couple of months ago, it was all over
- 15:00the news, I remember seeing it and initially being really troubled. I mean,
- 15:07it was disturbing. I watched the video and even that was disturbing,
- 15:13and then I I think I saw something online where I think it was well.
- 15:20I went in and I looked up Robert Thurman, who's a Buddhist scholar.
- 15:24I think he's at Harvard right now, but one of the most well
- 15:28respected people in the field, and he wrote something kind of extensive on this
- 15:35which kind of explained it away. In other words, he said that this
- 15:43conduct that was going on with the sucking of the tongues was in fact some
- 15:48practice ancient practice, And I know I'm kind of paraphrasing here, but I
- 15:56walked away from that reading like, oh ooh, okay, it's not what
- 16:03it looked like. It wasn't as disturbing. This was, in fact an
- 16:07actual religious slash Buddhist practice that goes on. Now, that was my reading
- 16:14of essentially of what he said. Now are you saying that that's not the
- 16:21case, and maybe that's even denying what's going on. I'm not an expert
- 16:26in Tibetan culture. I've met the Dalai Lama several times. He wrote the
- 16:33forward to my book Waking Up for More. I had something to do with
- 16:38one of his closest colleagues, who was the first president of the country independent
- 16:45Country of Tibet, in Armsala. I am very well disposed to the Dalai
- 16:53Lama, and I find Bob Thurman usually very well in form and informative.
- 17:04However, I think I agree with you when you said things get explained away.
- 17:15And even if which which I don't grant, but even if what he
- 17:22said is so that not only the sticking out of the tongue, but the
- 17:27sucking of the tongue is part and parcel of Tibetan culture and nothing to be
- 17:33concerned about in the slightest. Even if that is so, there's a whole
- 17:40other culture in the world that would see it and be impacted quite differently.
- 17:47And the boy with whom he engaged in that clearly didn't know this this cultural
- 17:55artifact because he kept pulling away and he did not suck the dollar Alma's tongue,
- 18:00and he was Indian, he wasn't Tibetan, So at the very least,
- 18:07there was a lack of awareness of the culture of the person he was
- 18:14with and the culture of around the world who are observing this, and the
- 18:19impacts that this had, the ramscasins that this had, and at the very
- 18:25least it would call for a cross cultural dialogue in which people would engage the
- 18:33dilema and let him know that even though this may have apparently allegedly been part
- 18:45of Tibetan culture, there are other cultural viewpoints about that that involved boundary crossings,
- 18:56sexual and appropriateness and a whole continuum up until sexual abuse and uh there
- 19:06could have been at least a mutual learning and a discussion of how it could
- 19:11have come across, not just due to American hysteria, but due to American
- 19:18progress in understanding trauma for goodness sakes. Yeah, well, I mean I
- 19:27think your your point is well taken. Uh you know, it seems you
- 19:33try to reach out and for all intents and purposes, you're you're reaching out
- 19:41called upon deaf years. But I think really it remains to be seen.
- 19:49Was this in fact or is that was his Were his actions based in fact
- 19:55on some religious practice? And okay? So oh okay, okay, who
- 20:02they were based on some religious practice. It's not as bad as it seems.
- 20:07Yes, he crossed some cultural boundaries. But uh, hold on a
- 20:12second, guy, I have to I have to put back here. Over
- 20:17the years, there have been a lot of religious practices that have been bad
- 20:23for human beings, right, and which have been justified by the fact that
- 20:29God told me to do it or it's part of my religion. So come
- 20:33on, now, I don't know where you were going with it, but
- 20:37I just wanted to catch it in. No, no, no, that's
- 20:38a fair point. I guess what I'm just saying is, you know,
- 20:45after reading Robert Thurman's essay again which he seemed to back this on the basis
- 20:52of this with some religious practice, and it wasn't as bad as it seemed.
- 20:57But yeah, you're right, it it however you slice and dice it,
- 21:03it doesn't. It's not a good look on the dollar. I mean
- 21:06it's abusive. Let's call it for what it is. I mean, asking
- 21:10this kid to suck your tongue. Come on. Yeah, So I'm less
- 21:15interested at this point. I'm glad we see eyed eye on that I would
- 21:21agree with you, but what I'm you see. At the same time as
- 21:26this was being processed, a couple of weeks later, a fellows and teacher
- 21:30named Grace Spearnson Pearson was co leading a workstop on preventing sexual abuse in buddhistanis
- 21:40the six part series. It was terrific and in that series he addressed the
- 21:47problems that I was resonating with. I mean, there are many problems with
- 21:52this, but what concerns me the most again is the blind spots and how
- 22:03we are traumatized or afraid of being traumatized by seeing our role models as real
- 22:11people, and how dangerous this is. Now, I will say something about
- 22:19the Tibetan culture, which I've read about and is backed up by research,
- 22:25and that there was I can find the reference. I don't have it offhand,
- 22:30but there was a study done over a long period of time traveling to
- 22:34many Asian countries, including including the tibet and the Tibetan monasteries in India,
- 22:44to explore the phenomenon of abuse of some of the monks throughout Asia. And
- 22:55when this researcher talked about her visit to many Tibetan monasteries where there are thousands
- 23:03of young boys and there's a history of not only orphans, but but young
- 23:10boys being given over to the to the monastery into the training and this brings
- 23:18merit on the parents. And there have been some accounts of abuse within the
- 23:23monasteries. And this particular research froom met three or four senior people there who
- 23:30said that there is some problem, but it's not discussed and basically I'm not
- 23:38going to discuss it with you. In so, there is in some religious
- 23:47traditions a worship of the spiritual teacher as a goodu who can do no wrong,
- 23:52and the problem is yours. If you're even raising a concern, you
- 23:57must be deluded. And Tibetan culture and religion is not the only one,
- 24:03but it's one of the ones where the guru culture is quite strong, and
- 24:08I've heard this many times about teachers who've committed misconduct. It's not what it
- 24:15looked like. It's not what it looks like. Well, it's exactly what
- 24:19it looks like and sometimes worse. So that's the other thing that occurred to
- 24:27me. If the Dalai Lama can be so free to do something that felt
- 24:33out of line at the very least, if not to use your word,
- 24:37abusive, then what's being done or what's being countenanced behind the scenes. We
- 24:45know now that in many Tibetan songas you know, there's a lot of uprising
- 24:52of songas regarding abuse by teachers. I mean not only in the Catholic church
- 24:57or there's en tradition, but but in the Tibetan resistance. And there is
- 25:03a little bit of a cultural lag because some people went over a few years
- 25:08ago to try to instruct and raise the dilama's consciousness about sexual misconduct on the
- 25:18part of some teachers, which he hadn't been calling out, and it took
- 25:22several tries for him to finally come and in a kind of lukewarm way,
- 25:29say that this is not acceptable. So there's something that we Westerners, Guy
- 25:36have to bring to this problem of blind spots and sexual abuse and religious distance,
- 25:45and it has to do with a few things. One is the importance
- 25:48of trauma. Secondly is the importance of the unconscious transmitment of trauma and the
- 25:57fact that blind thoughts exist, which means the unconscious exists, and we need
- 26:06others to help us know ourselves. So these are things that we in the
- 26:11West can and must bring to an integrative dialogue about what it means to be
- 26:18a spiritual or psychological authority or healer. Yeah, I mean, I think
- 26:25that's very well put into your point. If the you know, the scholars
- 26:32aren't willing to engage in a dialogue, who is right? I mean,
- 26:40if the Dalai Lama, you could say, maybe is in some circles,
- 26:45you know, some a spiritual north star. If he's doing this, what
- 26:52what am I to think? What am I to do? If I'm a
- 26:55if I'm a religious scholar, how am I going to comment on that this
- 27:00person my religious north star who's moved off center to such a degree. Well,
- 27:07you you wouldn't even think of commenting on it. That's the problem,
- 27:11right, It wouldn't even occur to you because couldn't be right, and that's
- 27:18the danger. You wouldn't even let yourself think it. All right, let's
- 27:23just pause here for a second to thank our sponsors. All Right, we
- 27:30are back. You know this. Uh. I'm gonna bring up something here
- 27:37that I'm just reminded of and the situation with bessel Vandercock huh that occurred.
- 27:48There was a couple of years ago. I think there was some uh people
- 27:55had with whom he'd been working said he was uh verbally abusive and bullying.
- 28:03And I don't know if you're aware of this, but it was it.
- 28:07I think it got him fired from a particular uh place of employment. But
- 28:12it's something that people in the field don't talk about. Again, you know,
- 28:19it's it's a similar situation. But what do you what are you proposing
- 28:29here? I'm proposing an integrative ideal of the enlightened or awakened person. That's
- 28:40what I'm proposing. Nothing short of that, because clearly people like the dial
- 28:51I Lama, let's just stick with him or or that zen teachers who have
- 28:57jumped through all the hoops and been checked by all the senior teachers and there
- 29:03and so their tory, their awakening has been approved, and they've been authorized,
- 29:14and it turns out that some of them do ill do harmful things.
- 29:19So even having the kind of experiential knowledge and teaching ability that bessel vander Cult
- 29:30has, there's still a matter of his character which may not get pained by
- 29:37all his learning. And what I'm what I've been learning over the years and
- 29:41been writing about, especially in my first book and the fourth book, the
- 29:45late latest one, is that very fact that this conundrum that that how is
- 29:53it that insight direct insights into the acredness of an interconnection of all life which
- 30:04was thought to completely transform the individual and assure that their conduct would be irreproachable.
- 30:15How is it that that paradigm doesn't work? What's missing, And what's
- 30:21missing is what I'm trying to talk about. What's missing is an understanding that
- 30:29And I'm not with those people who throw out the baby with the bathwater.
- 30:33There are some Zen teachers who say, you know, you've made such a
- 30:36fuss about enlightenment now that that that will just dispense with it. What matters
- 30:41is your embodiment of the teachings. Are you a good person? Is the
- 30:47karma you're sponsoring benevolence, Are you helpful? Uh you know? Or or
- 30:52are you a bully? Or are you an abuser? Or you know something
- 30:56like that. So it's a fair point. But I don't like to throw
- 31:00out the baby with the bath water because I think the experience of awakening or
- 31:04the experience of healing in the psychotherapy setting, these are real things and they
- 31:11do they do change things about us, but they need something else. And
- 31:18that's something else has to do with See, you know this guy, but
- 31:26some preaching to the acquire with you. But our audience is wider than this
- 31:30you and me. I know that that's great that we know about emotional regulations,
- 31:37but we don't know about unconscious emotional regulations. Interactive emotional regulation has talked
- 31:47about, say by or we don't know about unconscious emotional communications. How we
- 31:55can think we're coming across one way, but we're really coming across the other
- 32:00way. So what happens is that And I was just looking at a summary
- 32:07of my book. What happens is our insight and embodiment of that insight,
- 32:15our realization, and our personalization of that insight go in and out of alignment.
- 32:23Sometimes they're in alignment and sometimes they're not, and when they're not,
- 32:31if we don't know that they're out of alignment, then sometimes we end up
- 32:37acting in ways that are contrary not only to the teachings but to our own
- 32:44insight about the way the way life is, life and death are, what's
- 32:49reality, what's the mind, and all those things. So I've been making
- 32:53a case for the embody meant of our healing insights, of our transformative spiritual
- 33:06insights, and adding something which can counter this kind of lost in translation phenomena.
- 33:15But somewhere between prognia, between insights and see laws, which is the
- 33:21embodiment of the precepts or goodness and insights, somewhere in there something gets lost
- 33:27in translation. And I'm proposing a more integrative view where we don't just do
- 33:35conscious practices, but we're aware of the unconscious in four different ways. One
- 33:43is as a communication that things emotions are being communicated unconsciously in what Adam Phillips
- 33:50called the black market of emotions, so we have to be open to that
- 33:55level of communication. The second is that our motivation are not always what we
- 34:00think they are. And plus the road to hell is lined with good intentions,
- 34:07but they're conscious intentions. Most motivation is unconscious. The third is that
- 34:15emotional regulation is one thing. Having conscious awareness of our emotions is one thing.
- 34:22But there is such a thing as source as again called interactive regulation,
- 34:29which happens beneath the surface of consciousness, where we're helping regulate one another's arouse
- 34:37the levels of anxiety. And if we're with that and of that, then
- 34:43we know it can be a good thing. But there can also be unconscious
- 34:46emotional disthregulations, right, and we can be doing something differently than we think
- 34:53we're doing. And then the fourth unconscious element is the unconscious strenth mission of
- 35:00trauma. That we're being a sail by bits and residues of trauma picked up
- 35:12usually through our bodies, as we're coming to know, but not organized in
- 35:19a coherent conscious way, so that trauma is transmitted not only into generationally but
- 35:25within ourselves. Is transmitted from our early experience unconsciously, and if we're unconscious
- 35:36of that trauma, we will act it out, most likely thinking that we're
- 35:42doing good. So I have been advocating the continuing education of the spiritual featre
- 35:52and the therapist to include these elements so we can shine a light on what
- 35:57gets lost in translates, and we can event harm and we can increase the
- 36:01chances of benevolent impact. Wow, this topic, unconscious transmission of trauma,
- 36:14brings up a lot for me. And so you're saying, are you covering
- 36:20this in your fourth book? Yeah, you said, let's give our listeners
- 36:24the name of that book. Okay, I was trying to find a copy.
- 36:31There's got kind of a nice cover on it. Is that Zen and
- 36:39Psychotherapy? No, that that was my first book. That was two thousands
- 36:45true A true person of no rank? Yes, okay, true person of
- 36:49no rank, awakening Buddhist dream to save the world. That's right, Awakening
- 36:53Buddhist dream. That's to say it's just a dream. It was Buddhist dream.
- 37:00It was reflected in his teachings, in his contact, in his conduct.
- 37:05But it's up to each of us to awaken that dream through our own
- 37:09embodyment. This is really interesting to me, this this topic. And it's
- 37:21interesting Joseph, because I don't think I've really talked about it surprisingly or not
- 37:27on this podcast. But you, obviously, with your somewhat unique backgrounds to
- 37:34be the person to bring it into the light. How obviously in addition to
- 37:40the book. Are you are you doing this in other ways? Are you
- 37:46trying to continue discussions with people that you mentioned You're reaching out on Instagram and
- 37:53so forth. Yeah, I I I let the book do the talking.
- 38:01At this point I mentioned Gray Sherifson, who I think is absolutely terrific on
- 38:13this stuff, and who knows, maybe at some point SI and I will
- 38:17do some teaching together. I have been teaching. I have been speaking about
- 38:31my book at various locations where I'm invited and sort of expanding the paradigm of
- 38:38what awakening is, what the awakened person is, and how we can join
- 38:45our insights and our embodiments and make use of our character rather than have our
- 38:51character be our affliction because it's unconscious. So I've been talking to a different
- 38:57group. I've been talking to grew of psychotherapists about the meditative dimension of psychotherapy
- 39:07where two people are sitting in the room mind, body, soul and they
- 39:16are kind of I'll just use the word, they're kind of vibing together.
- 39:24They're thinking together, they're talking together, they're observing each other, they're listening
- 39:30to each other, and they're communicating consciously and unconsciously and in that process,
- 39:37which I call a meditation adieu, the two person meditation stuff arises that neither
- 39:45one can predict. And the analyst beyond called that the emotional truth. So
- 39:53it's not necessarily what you say or how you say it, but it's this
- 39:58deeper emotional truth might flowed up. It's the conditions or right if both people
- 40:04are collaborating in this meditative way. So I try to fare that with analysts,
- 40:15but in terms of the ethical questions and the I haven't really done much
- 40:23with it lately. But I agreed to talk with you guy because I trust
- 40:30you and I knew that I would be able to share this idea, this
- 40:36core idea today, which is that I think what keeps the people I've been
- 40:43talking about from opening up to the possibility that there was a transgression and to
- 40:51doing an investigation of that and a mutual elucidation of that, not in a
- 40:58kangaroo court kind of way, not presuming anything, but in a very open
- 41:02minded way where we both can learn from something from that. What keeps these
- 41:07people doing it is a very rigid self object structure where their beloved objects can
- 41:20do no wrong, and that is terribly dangerous in fact, one famous person
- 41:28in this group you know, would frequently say it's going to cast a bad
- 41:34light on Buddhism. And I think the opposite is true, that not raising
- 41:40it casts a bad light on Buddhism, just like not raising it in the
- 41:45Catholic Church fast the terrible light on Catholicism and they're losing so many people,
- 41:52all right. And not only does it does it cast a bad light,
- 41:57but it allows it to fester, the fester unaddressed, right, unaddressed,
- 42:04and to grow, to grow right, right, Joseph, what's the best
- 42:09way for people to get in contact with you? Probably through my website Josephbobroa
- 42:16dot com or the website of our zen group deep Streams Institute, which is
- 42:24deep stream dot org. Okay, and we'll have that linked up here at
- 42:30the show notes page at the Trauma Tapists podcast dot com. The book is
- 42:34called A True Person of No Rank, Awakening Buddhist Dream to Save the World
- 42:39always enlightening, if I can use that word. Have you on here,
- 42:45It's a pleasure and I'd love to have you back as always. Thank you
- 42:47so much, Joseph, Thank you guy. I always feel so unencumbered and
- 42:53so open and your openness I think always makes for a really vibrant extain.
- 43:00So thank you so much. You're welcome, I appreciate that. Take care
- 43:05you too,