Culadasa
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Culadasa is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 31, 2022 and November 06, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “I don’t know exactly what tradition Culadasa (one of the teachers involved in scandals) comes from”; “While I know very little about Culadasa’s life”. It most often appears alongside Steven, A Mind Without Craving, ACX.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: October 31, 2022
- Last seen: November 06, 2022
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- Steven (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I don’t know exactly what tradition Culadasa (one of the teachers involved in scandals) comes from, but he has taught courses on the jhanas, so I’m skeptical.
Inline links: taught courses on the jhanas
While I know very little about Culadasa's life, I did listen to a couple of podcast interviews with him. I am fairly sure it was a podcast named Guru Viking (episodes 13 and 78). In the latter episode, to the best of my recollection, Culadasa argues that his "scandal" was not sexual in nature, but instead involved giving some money to support a sex worker (or former sex worker, not sure?) and that he didn't have a sexual/romantic relationship with her. His story is that he was separated from his (later ex) wife and that their finances were essentially separate and they were effectively in an open relationship at this point. His ex-wife used the allegations as a way of extracting more from him during their divorce and getting control of the income from his organization. I don't know if his story is true, but I found his perspective fairly believable and, if true, would indicate that his scandal was not driven by sexual desire/behavior. Sadly, since his death, the truth of his claims will largely be hard to resolve.