Crazy Wisdom and the Nature of Truth
When a deer partakes of the fruit of a tree, it does so as a part of a divine cycle. It takes in the sweet fruit as nourishment and sustenance, but it also takes in the seeds of that fruit. It gives a great gift to the tree, as the tree has given a great gift unto it, by carrying forth the seeds of its fruit in to the world within the bowels of the deer. The deer then passes the seeds, encased in all the digestive materials of the other things that the deer has partaken. This is a beautiful and sacred process.
I have recently published an article which has brought great worry to the hearts of my friends and family. I am writing this now to try to help set their hearts at ease. I have a strong spiritual practice. I have recently made great strides forward in my spiritual practice by releasing energies from past traumas and conquering past aversions and lusts both. I have been able to partake of the fruit of a sacred tree prepared by our Heavenly Father from the beginning of the world. Much like the noble deer, the fruit of this tree is both blessing to me, and I to it. This fruit nourishes me and sustains me, but it asks for my service in return.
You see, not all of what I have written is precisely true. Not all of it is precisely false either. It contains the seeds of this fruit of which I have partaken, but it is not itself the fruit. It is a digestive encasing of consisting of all the materials I have taken in over the years, which I have passed back to the Earth as a protective vehicle for the seed of the fruit which I have partaken. I am not special in doing so, nor do I claim some kind of prophetic appointment. I am not appointed to be a prophet or seer. I am a humble servant of God, a man of quiet meditation and earnest prayer.
I return unto the world the seed of the fruit of that great Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, so that the seed may find fertile ground and take root again within the hearts, minds, and spirits of others. I am merely taking part in the great cycle. I am turning the Wheel of Dharma, as Buddha did. I am stirring the pot, that the stew may not stagnate and burn, but that it may continue to simmer in prosperity, prepared with love and affection from the beginning of time by our great Heavenly Father.
In doing this, I follow in the tradition of many great men before me: Buddha, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith, and Chogyam Trungpa, just to name a few. These men are all much greater than me, but each one of them was a great teacher of the world, and each one of them had one thing in common: the conveying of truth through parables. Each one of them was also called crazy by some of the people of his time, but each one of them persevered in turning the great Wheel of Dharma, and providing energy and leavening to the great common consciousness of all mankind. I invite you to look up Chogyam Trungpa and his Crazy Wisdom, for I can not do this great man justice, but even so let us take a brief look at him.
Chogyam Trungpa lived in the the middle of the 20th century as the recipient of two great lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. Both the Nyingma and the Kagyu schools were held by this master, who was called both a tulku (a reincarnated sage) and a terton (a revealer of sacred treasures). Chogyam Trungpa coined a phrase called “crazy wisdom,” for you see, despite his clear lineages in the Tibetan Buddhist faith and his great work of bringing Tibetan Buddhism and Vajrayana teachings to the West, he was a controversial and divisive figure. He drank like a fish, cursed like a sailor, and slept with many, many women (and some claim men as well). This is not the image that a traditional Buddhist monk is supposed to convey.
Even so, he was by all accounts an extremely wise man, though erratic and prone to sudden, inexplicable outbursts that his companions found difficult to process and understand. He was the recipient of deep wisdom and knowledge from a long tradition of wise and knowledgeable students of the grand universal truths of the Dharma. He processed these truths, and returned them to the western world in a vehicle and presentation that appeared quite insane and out of step with his Eastern peers, but which was uniquely suited to the Western mind and predilections. Chogyam Trungpa taught profoundly needed truth to a profoundly sick society, and in so doing, he provided many great blessings to the world.
Now, am I claiming to be as worthy and wise a man as the majestic Chogyam Trungpa? No. But, I have learned from him much about human beings and how they accept and process knowledge. I have learned from him much about the memetic common consciousness of all mankind. I have taken his teachings and re-purposed them for my own spiritual quest. What I say is not precisely true or precisely false, and is not intended to be taken as truth in itself. It is merely a signpost, an indicator. It directs the seeker toward truth by stirring them to begin asking the right questions. What I say is parable. It is part fiction and part wisdom. Some of it is the seed of the fruit of our Heavenly Father’s divine tree. Most of it is waste matter encasing that seed to protect it, fertilize it, and provide a vehicle for it as it passes again out in to the world.
I hope this has been an edifying clarification for you. I hope this has done something to assuage your worries and fears about what I am saying. I love each and every one of you, and I appreciate your work and care for me, and for your flocks, and the people to whom you are responsible in this life and in the life to come. Thank you for your concern and for your interest. I hope this will help you open your minds a little to what I am doing. I love you. Love and light to you, always, brothers and sisters. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.