Crazy Wisdom

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80jGSadccmYThe film of docunmentary talk about  a life of bad boy of crazy wisdom.  He is name Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, February 28, 1939 – April 4, 1987) was a Buddhist meditation master and holder of both the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, the eleventh Trungpa tülku, a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of a radical re-presentation of Shambhala vision.

In my opinion, There is no way to get enlighten for him because he was a drinker and his involve in sexual events in many ways that mean he against   Buddha teaching therefore, he may be a enlightenment person.   

Trungpa landed in the U.S. in 1970 and legend has it that he said to his students: "Take me to your poets."  Trungpa became renowned for translating ancient Buddhist concepts into language and ideas that Westerners could understand. Humor was always a part of his teaching - "Enlightenment is better than Disneyland," he quipped, and he warned of the dangers of the "Western spiritual supermarket."  Today, twenty years after his death,  Trungpa's name still evokes 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.

Chögyam Trungpa's style of teaching was often unconventional. In his own words, "When we talk about compassion, we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative to wake a person up." He did not encourage his students to imitate his own behavior, and was troubled by those who felt empowered by his example to do whatever they wanted and manipulate people.

In Tibetan Buddhism, Crazy wisdom or yeshe chölwa  "wisdom gone wild") refers to unconventional, outrageous, or unexpected behavior, being either a manifestation of buddha nature and spiritual teaching  on the part of the guru, or a method of spiritual investigation undertaken by the student.

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