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The Real Crazy Wisdom Gurus

 
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The Real Crazy Wisdom Gurus
The Real Crazy Wisdom Gurus

By The Naljorpa

To understand Crazy Wisdom is not easy for the Western seeker. In fact, it is not easy even for the average Tibetan aspirant and never was, which is why such wisdom is called “Wild and Crazy”, like something completely unpredictable, out-of-hand and personally challenging to one’s own beliefs, values, morality or judgment. In fact, only a Crazy Wisdom Guru can “explain it”, but his (or even her) “explanation” is more likely to do something unusual with you, such as insisting that you do something that stretches your being, that takes you beyond your limits. Crazy Wisdom action implies being open to the Guru’s Action Guidance, which is never given as a sado-masochistic approach to discipleship, just as it is not offering something pleasurable or entertaining to keep the student interested. Actions that liberate are different than Words to be understood, though experiential or behavioral actions can and should be understood deeply.

One of our problems here is that when Chögyam Trungpa gave lectures with questions-and-answers, he was extremely misleading about Crazy Wisdom because he was a Crazy Wisdom Explainer, not a Crazy Wisdom Guru. He was a wonderful Explainer/Lecturer with many wonderful intellectual insights. Since he was a famous Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist “found reincarnated master monk”, no non-Tibetan or ordinary traditional Tibetan would possibly know that his approach to Crazy Wisdom was in fact erroneous bullshit for the most part.

The outer, petty social ego, when taught by a Crazy Wisdom Explainer is taken farther away from a Crazy Wisdom Guru. It is like following the Dali Lama rather than Padma Sambhava. Drungpa Kunley, for instance, was a Crazy Wisdom Guru who if asked by a Western woman in Chögyam Trungpa’s lecture audience might show his erect penis to her and the entire audience if asked what he thinks of Chögyam Trungpa’s ideas on Padma Sambhava. The Naljorpa Drungpa Kunley would sometimes do outrageous things like that, yet we cannot say, “Crazy Wisdom is to always do something outrageous that upsets people gathered somewhere for an official lecture on some sacred spiritual subject”. There is no rule of Crazy Wisdom but the Rule of the Moment.

Shams-i-Tabriz was a Crazy Wisdom Guru in the Sufi tradition. When Rumi took such a man as his Guide, all hell broke loose socially! Society was furiously “shocked”. Crazy Wisdom is always beyond the local religious belief system or conventional normalcy. Hence, the Sufi Master, Shams-i-Tabriz, would give a superior Action Explanation of Crazy Wisdom, beyond Chögyam Trungpa who was locked into official Tibetan explanations of what Real People do when they seem to be official founders of Tibetan traditions.

Another aspect of Crazy Wisdom is that its “rough and ready” Action Teachings tend to scare people (prospective students) away sooner or later. At first (even I myself went through this cycle about twenty five years ago), the Crazy Wisdom Guru will work some poignant miracles, or bestow some powerful inner experiences to one or two leaders of a social spiritual group. They will be overwhelmed and report all this to their social grouping, who will begin to personally gather “at the feet of the New Master” who will begin doing Crazy Wisdom things, which of course upset and cause doubts. The biggest percentage of these new “adherents” and “helpers” blow-up and leave very early in the program. It can even take years to weed-out the rigid, stuck, spiritually blind and greedy “followers”. At the end of the process, there are at most one, two or three Crazy Wisdom Disciples barely hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The original group of, say, two to three hundred originally impressed people have now become the Crazy Wisdom Guru’s critics and detractors who warn that his “methods” are false and that he is a “black magician”, “charlatan” or “threat to normal social norms”. They fiercely warn that the Crazy Wisdom Guru is “abnormal” and will trap you in a “cult”. They are wholly unable to register what has really happened is that they are all-too-normal and incapable of spiritual development, that they simply failed the natural test that takes place when subjected to Crazy Wisdom Action. The ex-false-followers will of course never mention to anyone that they witnessed miracles or got high on unusual experiences! Those to them are now, “just black misleading magic”.

Now, picture that Explainer Rinpoche Chögyam Trungpa had someone incognito in the audience listening to one of Trungpa’s lectures on Padma Sambhava who actually was the immortal Guru Rinpoche himself appearing as a Mexican Chicano seriously anxious to learn how Crazy Wisdom works. Also picture that Explainer Rinpoche and his eager followers or listeners were totally insensitive to the brilliant presence of Guru Rinpoche Himself! Could any reader of this incredible, brilliant and uplifting article claim that Guru Rinpoche would not Himself do something so incredible, brilliant and uplifting?

Why do you suppose that Chögyam Trungpa said that any of his audience would “probably be disappointed” if they personally encountered the Immortal Guru Rinpoche? For all we know, it might have been that lecture where the Immortal Guru Rinpoche attended incognito as a seemingly insignificant Mexican Chicano, perhaps wearing a brown beret. In fact, if any old seeker who was there remembers a rather peculiar and strangely attractive Mexican Chicano in a brown beret, then I highly recommend that he or she immediately finds the Nagual Church in Tula, Mexico! There is still a slight hope of discovering the “disappointment” Trungpa advertised. Of course the leap from Explainer Rinpoche to Guru Rinpoche could cause a heart attack, so do be careful. You can get the books of Explainer Rinpoche up and down at your own convenience, but you cannot put the Immortal Guru Rinpoche up and down at your own convenience! Or, as the saying goes, “be careful what you wish for, you might get it!”

Now, why oh why would Explainer Rinpoche, long deceased and a mere ghost, promote the Immortal Guru Rinpoche as a likely “disappointment”? Does that make sense to you? Does Chögyam Trungpa have a better explanation of an Immortal Crazy Wisdom Guru than the Immortal Guru Himself in person? Doesn’t that sound a wee bit dubious? Maybe Explainer Rinpoche knew that he himself was not advanced enough to locate and meet with Guru Rinpoche and that roaming around somewhere like Mexico or Peru would be too expensive and ruin his Explainer Trip for the confused and spiritually incapable followers. And, also, Explainer Guru once broke his back in a car accident on a journey to visit an English Explainer Guru, so maybe he figured something even worse might happen attempting to visit the Real Immortal Guru. Crazy Wisdom can be lethal if one tries to approach it with a wrong motive!

Apparently, Guru Rinpoche has been functioning as the “Death Defier” for several generations of New Seers Naguals in Mexico in the lineage Carlos Castaneda plugged into. Those Nagual Seers seem to have had Crazy Wisdom tendencies themselves. The Nagual Julian as described by Nagual Juan Matus is a particularly glaring example that every Tibetan Vajrayana student should carefully study. But that would probably be beyond the mental pettiness of an identification with Tibetan Buddhism, too stretching of Explainer Rinpoche’s idea that you must have only one beautiful vase in your living room instead of a “junk shop” of too many vases. I myself, utterly violating Explainer Rinpoche, have a full-blown museum with several rooms filled with vases arrayed in occult geometrical patterns. Ain’t it awful!

I tell you that most of what Explainer Rinpoche put into your head about Padma Sambhava, Crazy Wisdom and handling your stupid emotional states as some sort of “spiritual training” just blocks off access to Maha Ati or Serious Power. His teachings are only marginally useful, just like the teachings of Idries Shah or J. Krishnamurti. Either read all the marginally useful but uncoordinated stuff or read nothing.

Crazy Wisdom remains rightly mysterious and generally inaccessible. All socializers on the Web in the “spiritual” forums, including the Tibetan Buddhist affiliates, are nothing in all this. None of them have personally met the Death Defier/Padma Sambhava, for instance. Many are incapable of intuitively registering the reality of such an incredible superhuman being. It’s that bad! No kidding. This is a planet of proudly subhuman cynics and neurotic emotional “spiritual” seekers. These shallow “seekers” only want to “find” what they can have at their convenience. They could not cope with even a few minutes of directly experiencing Crazy Wisdom Action first hand. Their convenience and judgment are immediately violated. That requires immense faith and courage. Chicken-shit brain-centered fools cannot handle it, but quickly freak out and reject it as wrong, evil and dangerous. They fall at the first hurdle, no matter how many “yanas” of different names they think they can realize or “understand”. No doubt, many of Explainer Rinpoche’s dedicated students were told that most of his behavior was in fact “Crazy Wisdom” to keep them calm and happy, but there was nothing of the kind going on but his indulgences and whims. Real Crazy Wisdom Action is never called that. Try to understand this. It needs no justification to stressed-out normalcy! Fucking over petty, shallow, stupid and mechanical normalcy is its sacred duty!

Try to understand that neither you nor anyone you know truly wants to be subjected to Real Crazy Wisdom. You want famous traditional “Teachers”, not Crazy Wisdom Gurus. You think you learn from teachings, not from actions or what you would call “unreasonable behavior”. Oh, sure, you think you want a miracle worker or a purveyor of higher experiences, but you don’t really want a full-blown version of all that, for there is then bound to be some element of distressing Crazy Wisdom at work there. Your proud, stupid normalcy just wants to add on spiritual learning and development as a kind of titillating hobby that doesn’t radically transform your behavior or your shallow personal plans or relations with some empty and useless “loved-one” like your “dear mother” or your “dear son or daughter” who would never even want to receive an Explainer Rinpoche lecture on Guru Rinpoche, let alone meet a weird and disturbing Immortal.

Once Tilopa and his disciple Naropa were passing by a wedding. Tilopa pointed at the bride and said to Naropa, “That woman is beautiful. I want her! Bring her to me immediately!” Naropa went to the bride and began to carry her to his Guru Tilopa. All the men there of course took the bride back and beat the shit out of the faithful Naropa. Crazy Wisdom Action was highly inexplicable. It is hard to say what the actual change in Naropa was from it. Is that not so? No explanation from an Explainer Teacher can explain it.

I suggest a little experiment to help you come to grips with Crazy Wisdom. Fix a little green Buddha up in a tree where you often walk-by and could easily see every time you go by under the tree, but fix it there in such a way that virtually no one will notice it or get interested. If someone were ever to somehow connect it to you and inquire, just say, “Oh that, I just put it there for good luck,” and never try to explain Buddhism to anyone! That little green Buddha will instruct you with its Crazy Wisdom presence, which presence is Me. Watch what happens.

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