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The idea that people who have been very, very deeply hurt can simply move on is no more applicable to monastics than it is to householders.

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I was an SRF monastic for almost two decades. Incredible psychological atrocities occur in that environment. Once I began to see behind the actions to the underlying psychological causes it was very clear that those in positions of authority there are some of the most repressed people on the planet.

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