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苏格兰宗教哲学家坎贝尔：我是一个坦特罗密教性奴隶
原文I was a Tantric sex slave
总有藏密宗徒说藏密是神圣无上的，藏密真的那么神圣吗？就让我们看看苏格兰宗教哲学家June Campbell亲身经历吧！藉由她的书，《空行母：寻找喇嘛教中女性之定位》，苏格兰宗教哲学家June Campbell打开了许多道让人可以诚实探讨与深入辩论坦特罗密教教义的水闸门。她曾担任过多名西藏喇嘛的翻译员，其中还包括了她后来成为其秘密性伴侣 的卡卢仁波切。在这里我们重现了来自英国独立报the Independent有关她的一份访问报导。
Withher book, Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in TibetanBuddhism, the Scottish philosopher of religion, June Campbell, openedthe floodgates for an honest and sound debate about Tantric Buddhism.She worked as a translator for Tibetan lamas, including Kalu Rinpoche, whose "secret sexual consort" she became. Here we reproduce an article about her from the Independent.
英国独立报-1999年2月10号-记者Paul Vallely
The Independent - 10. February 1999 - Paul Vallely
June Campbell曾经是一位地位崇高的西藏喇嘛的多年性伴侣。她还曾被告知如果违背秘密誓言的话，将遭受死亡诅咒的威胁，但是话说回来，所谓的开悟或许真的脱不了这些事吧?
Foryears June Campbell was the`consort`of a senior Tibetan Buddhist monk.She was threatened with death if she broke her vow of secrecy. But thenenlightenment can be like that.
Feetof clay? No, it was a different part of the anatomy - and of all toofleshly substance - which caused the trouble. But, I suppose, you don`texpect Tantric sex to be a straightforward activity. Then again, sex ofany kind isn`t really what you`re planning when you become a celibate nun.
Itwas, said June Campbell as she began her lecture, only the second timeshe had been asked to give a talk to a Buddhist group in this countrysince her book. Traveller in Space came out three years ago. Smallwonder. The topic of hertalk was "Dissent in Spiritual Communities", and you don`t get muchmore potent types of dissent than hers. For she not only revealed thatshe had for years been the secret sexual consort of one of the mostholy monks in Tibetan Buddhism -the tulku (re-incarnated lama), Kalu Rinpoche. She also insisted thatthe abuse of power at the heart of the relationship exposed a flaw atthe very heart of Tibetan Buddhism.
Thiswas heresy , indeed. To outsiders, the Rinpoche was one of the mostrevered yogi-lamas in exile outside Tibet. As abbot of his ownmonastery, he had taken vows of celibacy and was celebrated for havingspent 14 years in solitary retreat. Amonghis students were the highest ranking lamas in Tibet. "His own status,was unquestioned in the Tibetan community", said Ms. Campbell, "and hisholiness attested to by all".
喇嘛教世界这个圈子——不管它在西方时尚圈中已经如何传播开来——本质上都还是一个既封闭又紧密的圈子。尽管Ms.Campbell已经选择将自己的陈述 以一种颇为节制的方式，在她那本极为学术化而又以「寻找喇嘛教中女性之定位」为副标题的书中表达出来，仍然不免在这个封闭的圈子中激起被她形容为「愤怒与 激动的原始流露」的强烈反弹。 「我被痛斥谩骂成一名骗子，一个恶魔！」她在上个礼拜于Sharpham，Devon的无派系佛学研究大学(the nonsectarian College for Buddhist Studies)所发表的那场公开演讲中这样说：「在西藏佛教那个世界里，他是一名圣人。而我对他的揭发就好像是宣称天主教德蕾莎修女也会拍A片一样！」
Theinner circles of the world of Tibetan Buddhism - for all ist spread infashionable circles in the West - is a closed and tight one. Herclaims, though made in a restrained way in the context of a deeplyacademic book subtitled - "In Search ofFemale Identity in Tibetan Buddhism" - provoked what she described as aprimitive outpouring of rage and fury. "I was reviled as a liar or ademon", she said during a public lecture last week at the nonsectarianCollege for Buddhist Studies in Sharpham , Devon. "In that world he was a saintly figure. It was like claiming that Mother Teresa was involved in making porn movies".
但是，并非因为不敢面对这些反弹，而让她整整等了十八年才出版这本书《Traveller in Space》（Traveller in Space即藏语dakini一辞的英译,dakini是空行母的意思，这个名辞虽然看似颇有诗意,实则不过意指被喇嘛用来当作双修性工具的女人）来揭发 吐露真相。而是整整花了十八年那么久的时间，她才终于能够克服这些经历所造成的创伤。 「有十一年之久我绝口不提这事，等到我决心要把它写下来了，又花了我七年的时间去做研究。我想作的是把我个人的经验以及我对西藏社会中女性所扮演角色的了 解编织联系起来，好让自己能够合理解释过去那些发生在我身上的事。」
Butit was not fear of the response which made her wait a full 18 yearsbefore publishing her revelations in a volume entitled Traveller inSpace - a translation of dakini, the rather poetic Tibetan word for awoman used by a lama for sex. It took herthat long to get over the trauma of the experience. "I spent 11 yearswithout talking about it and then, when I had decided to write aboutit, another seven years researching. I wanted to weave together mypersonal experience with a more theoretical understanding of the role of women in Tibetan society to help me make sense of what had happened to me."
Whathappened was that , having become a Buddhist in her native Scotland inthe hippie Sixties, she travelled to India where she became a nun. Shespent 10 years in a Tibetan monastery and penetrated more deeply thanany other Westerner into the faith`s esoteric hierarchy.Eventually she became personal translator to the guru as, during theSeventies, he travelled through Europe and America. It was after that,she said, that "he requested that I become his sexual consort and takepart in secret activities with him" .Whathappened was that , having become a Buddhist in her native Scotland inthe hippie Sixties, she travelled to India where she became a nun. Shespent 10 years in a Tibetan monastery and penetrated more deeply thanany other Westerner into the faith`s esoterichierarchy. Eventually she became personal translator to the guru as,during the Seventies, he travelled through Europe and America. It wasafter that, she said, that "he requested that I become his sexualconsort and take part in secret activities with him ".
Onlyone other person knew of the relationship - a second monk - with whomshe took part in what she described as a polyandrous Tibetanstylerelationship. "It was some years before I realised that the extent towhich I had been taken advantage of constituted a kind ofabuse".The practice of Tantric sex is more ancient than Buddhism. Theidea goes back to the ancient Hindus who believed that the retention ofsemen during intercourse increased sexual pleasure and made men livelonger. The Tibetan Buddhists developed the belief that enlightenmentcould beaccelerated by the decision "to enlist the passions in one`s religiouspractice, rather than to avoid them". The stategy is consideredextremely risky yet so efficacious that it could lead to enligthenmentin one lifetime.
Monksof a lower status confined themselves to visualising an imaginarysexual relationship during meditation. But, her book sets out, the"masters" reach a point where they decide that they can engage in sexwithout being tainted by it. The instructions in the so -called"secret" texts spell out the methods which enable the man to controlthe flow of semen through yogic breath control and other practices. Theidea is to "drive the semen upwards, along the spine, and into thehead". The more semen in a man`s head, the stronger intellectually and spiritually he is thought to be.
「『一般性行为的倒行逆施』恰足以一语道破密宗双身修法中男女双方的相对关系与地位。」
"The reverse of ordinary sex expresses the relative status of the male and female within the ritual."
Morethan that, he is said to gain additional strength from absorbing thewoman`s sexual fluids at the same time as withholding his own. This"reverse of ordinary sex", said June Campbell, "expresses the relativestatus of the male and female within the ritual, for it signals the power flowing from the woman to the man".
Theimbalance is underscored by the insistence by such guru-lamas thattheir sexual consorts must remain secret, allowing the lamas tomaintain control over the women. "Since the book was published, I`vehad letters from women all over the world with similar and worse experiences".
Sowhy did she stay for almost three years? "Personal prestige. The womenbelieve that they too are special and holy. They are entering sacredspace. It produces good karma for future lives, an is a test of faith".The combination of religion,sex, power and secrecy can have a potent effect. It creates the Catch22 of psychological blackmail set out in the words of another lama,Beru Kyhentze Rinpoche: "If your guru acts in a seemingly unenlightenedmanner and you feel it would be hypocriticalto think him a Buddha, you should remember that your own opinions areunreliable and the apparent faults you see may only be a reflection ofyour own deluded state of mind...If your guru acted in a completelyperfect manner he would be inaccessible andyou would be able to relate to him. It is therefore out of your Guru`sgreat compassion that he may show apparent flaws... He ist mirroringyour own faults".
Thepsychological pressure ist often increased by making the woman swearvows of secrecy. In addition June Campbell was told that "madness,trouble or even death" could follow if she did not keep silent. "I wastold that in a previous life the lama Iwas involved with had had a mistress who caused him some trouble, andin order to get rid of her he cast a spell which caused her illnesslater resulting in her death.
Thereare those Buddhists, like Martine Batchelor - who spent 10 years as aZen Buddhist nun in a Korean monastery and who now teaches at ScharphamCollege - who insist the religious techniques the Buddha taught can beseparated from the sexist, patriarchal and oppressive culture of manyBuddhist countries. But June Campbell is not convinced. "You have toask what is the relationship between belief and how a societystructures itself," she said. In Tibetanism, power lies in the hands ofmen who had often been traumatised by being removedfrom their mother at the age of two and taken to an all male monastery."Some were allowed visits from their mothers and sisters but always insecrecy - so that they came to associate women with what must behidden".
Butthere is more to it, she believes than that. Teaching at Sharpham lastweek she gave the students a whole range of material about differentkind of feminism - from the political to the psychotherapeutic. Shethen asked them how it relates to the fact that thereare no female Buddha images or to why in Tantric sex images the womanalways has her back to the viewer, or to why Buddhist women are told topray that they will be reborn into a male body in their next life -foronly in a man`s body can they attain full enlightenment.
"OnceI started unravelling my experiences, I began to question everything,"she said. That meant not just the actions of a particular guru But thevery idea of the guru. She began to wonder whether the Tantra was justa fantasy, and whether thereis really any difference between Tantric sex and ordinary sex. Shequestioned the very concept of enlightenment itself and the practice ofmeditiation. "I realised that in order to be myself I had to leave itall - completely an utterly." 作者: 光明遍照 时间: 2020-8-16 22:11