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Ram Dass speaks on Trungpa Rinpoche perhaps his crazy wisdom
Yeah I have read stripping the gurus. You could start a thread about that but this one is an arts and writing thread about the video I linked. Thanks. Did you like the video?
It reminds me of when @thickpaper called me a nattering nabobs of negativism.
Yeah I have read stripping the gurus. You could start a thread about that but this one is an arts and writing thread about the video I linked. Thanks. Did you like the video?
It reminds me of when @thickpaper called me a nattering nabobs of negativism.
Hi Jeffrey, the link didn't work for me when I clicked on it.(and 'Stripping the gurus, is a book, so its connected writings on the subject of Dass and Trungpa)
Its like the movie a river runs through it when the brother, Norman Maclean says "I only know that my brother was a good fisherman". The brother who was a drinker played by Brad Pitt who had gotten involved with gamblers in wyoming town.
Trungpa was an alcoholic. Trungpa was a brilliant writer.
Once my father came back with another question. "Do you think I could have helped him?" he asked Even if I might have thought longer I would have made the same answer. "Do you think I could have helped him?" I answered. We stood waiting in deference to eachother. How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?
After a long time he came with something he must have wanted to ask from the first. "Do you think it was just a stick-up and he tried to fight his way out? You know what I mean-that it wasn't connected with anything in his past."
"The police don't know," I said. "But do you?" he asked, and I felt the implication. "I've said I've told you all I know. If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman." "You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful."
Trungpa was pretty degenerate as was his successor Osel Tenzin. Morale Discipline is part of the Buddhist path and for a teacher to not demonstrate it is extremly harmful.
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http://www.strippingthegurus.com/
It reminds me of when @thickpaper called me a nattering nabobs of negativism.
The video I posted is a video of Ram Dass introducing a film about the crazy wisdom teachings of trungpa rinpoche. It is about 5 minutes long and is pleasant so it is not much of a time committment.
No mountain, no bird, no place to fly to. Just a wise man drinking himself to death.
And a group of disciples too invested in worshiping a Buddha to help one drunk old man.
Trungpa was an alcoholic. Trungpa was a brilliant writer.
Once my father came back with
another question. "Do you think
I could have helped him?" he asked
Even if I might have thought longer
I would have made the same answer.
"Do you think I could have helped
him?" I answered. We stood waiting
in deference to eachother. How
can a question be answered that
asks a lifetime of questions?
After a long time he came with
something he must have wanted to
ask from the first. "Do you think
it was just a stick-up and he tried
to fight his way out? You know
what I mean-that it wasn't connected
with anything in his past."
"The police don't know," I said.
"But do you?" he asked, and I felt
the implication. "I've said I've
told you all I know. If you push
me far enough, all I really know
is that he was a fine fisherman."
"You know more than that," my father
said. "He was beautiful."
Morale Discipline is part of the Buddhist path and for a teacher to not demonstrate it is extremly harmful.