Crazy Wisdom explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chogyam Trungpa, the brilliant “bad boy of Buddhism” who fled his homeland during the Chinese Communist invasion. Trungpa arrived in the U.S. in 1970, and legend has it that he said to his students: “Take me to your poets.” Trungpa eventually became renowned for translating ancient Buddhist concepts into language and ideas that Westerners could understand, while shattering all preconceived notions about the way an enlightened teacher should behave. Judged harshly by the Tibetan establishment to begin with, Trungpa’s teachings are now recognized by Western philosophers and spiritual leaders, including the Dalai Lama, as authentic and profound. Today, twenty years after his death, Trungpa’s name still evokes both admiration and outrage. What made him tick, and just what is “crazy wisdom” anyway? With unprecedented access to Trungpa’s inner circle and exclusive never-before-seen archival material, Crazy Wisdom looks at the man and the myths about him, and attempts to set the record straight.

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Setting the record straight:

Chogyam Trungpa was an alcoholic. He literally drank himself to death.
Say what you will about pot, it is not in the same league with alcohol as a  poison.

All this shit sounds good. The idea that we need a guru or a teacher is not good.

Jesus of Nazareth when asked by a man to be his teacher replied, “You have one teacher, the Father.”

Bet ya did not know that what all the “Christian”  colleges, schools and universities and the “Christians” who call themselves teachers.

That just shows how little they know.

Stay away from them.

When you hear stuff like this check your wallet as it is about to get stolen.

The Toddler Tulku: Born in Kham, Tibet, in 1939, was identified at just 13 months old by the 16th Karmapa as the 11th Trungpa Tulku (the reincarnation of a supreme lineage teacher in the Kagyu tradition).

Basically what this means is he had no life experience. He grew up taught by men with no real life experience.

So it is no wonder he was a mess.

I’m not saying Buddhism is the bunk. I’m not saying there are not Buddhist Masters.

I am, saying Trungpa was as brainwashed as a kid as a kid is under Communism.

He never had a life of his own.

It is no wonder that when he got to the West he got drunk.

But the dude was not a Master of himself. Until we become Masters of ourselves we are masters of nothing.

We don’t need to be Buddhists or Christians to be master of our self. Often belief systems get in the way of that.

Jesus also said, “Let no one call you teacher.” I’m not teaching. I am testifying.

–Reg Hartt, Crazy-Wisdom-Yogin.

These things did not come from observation and reflection. They were drummed into his head from when he could toddle.

Desire is the fire that leads us to the LIGHT. We are living FIRE. From the moment of Creation I AM. Embrace desire.

The EGO wants only a firm hand on the wheel, strong foot on the brakes, eyes on the road and the drunk in the back seat.

“Most teachers say you should go to school to get your degree to have something to fall back on. Aside from being a huge lie, that also creates a very high level of mediocrity, because nobody who really believes that is going to take the leap of faith required to be a serious artist. Stay out of school.”–Ellis Marsalis to his sons Branford, Delfeayo and Wynton.

“You have no need that any man should teach you.”-1 John 2:27.

“He who without the Muse’s madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.”-Plato.

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education,” adds Bertrand Russell.

“We get three educations. The first is from our parents; the second is from our schoolmasters. The third is from life. The last makes liars of the first two.”–Montesquieu.

I bought David Mamet’s book TRUE AND FALSE after getting this postcard. This is from TRUE AND FALSE:

David Mamet: “The American educational process prepares those with second-rate intellects to thrive in a bureaucratic environment. Obedience, rote memorization, and neatness are enshrined as intellectual achievements.”

From TRUE AND FALSE BY David Mamet: “Any system built on belief functions through the operations of guilt and hypocrisy. Such a system, whether of acting training, meditation self improvement etc., functions as a Pseudoreligjon and is predicated on the individual’s knowledge of his or her own worthlessness The system holds itself out as the alleviator, cleanser, and redeemer of the guilty individual

“Now none of us is free of self doubt, and none of us is free of guilt. We all have thoughts, feelings, episodes, and tendencies which we would rather did not exist.

“A guilt-based educational system, which is to say, most acting training, survives through the Support of adherents who were guilty before they signed up. who came to classes and failed (how could they do otherwise, as the training was nonsense), and were then informed that their feelings of shame which they brought in with them—were due to their failure in class, and could be alleviated if and only if the student worked harder, “believed” more. “

“You will encounter in your travels folks of your own age who chose the institutional path, who became administrators rather than doers. These folks chose to serve an institutional authority in exchange for a paycheck, and these folks are going to be with you for the rest of your life, and you who come up off the street, who live without certainty day to day and year to year are going to have to bear with being called children by these institutional types; you will, as Shakespeare tells us, endure ‘the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.’ “It is not childish to live with uncertainty, to devote oneself to an idea rather than an institution. It’s courageous and requires a courage of the order that the institutionally co-opted are ill equipped to perceive. They are so unequipped to perceive it that they can only call it childish, and so excuse their exploitation of you.”– David Mamet, TRUE AND FALSE. (Edited)

“Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated ? ”
— David Mamet

David Mamet: “The educational process prepares those with second-rate intellects to thrive in a bureaucratic environment. Obedience, rote memorization, and neatness are enshrined as intellectual achievements.”

“Like the belief of the terminally ill in medicine the belief of the legitimately frightened in the educational process is a comforting lie.” — David Mamet