Crazy Wisdom

[Scribbleros]

Sustaining a thought is harder than having one.

solacing thought on a bitter cold day, enjoy shivering. In the next life, we'll probably be complaining about the heat.



I should be get carried away, I should be.... I should.

I only got the first statement in this. I agree with the last though.

 

[espeteroh]

Where can I find a man who has forgentten words?
I would like to have a word with him.

Chuang Tzu

The journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tse

 

[Scribbleros]

The universe and human stupidity are the only true infinite things in existence.

 

[Dhalgren150]

I’m proud of my humility.

 

[Scribbleros]

Your neighbor's wife looks prettier than your own.

 

[Scribbleros]

If you are in a hurry you will never get there.

 

[Scribbleros]

Do not employ handsome servants.

 

[Sweetpepper]

A smile increases a face value, any for sales?

 

[tiara suzanna]

Where can I find a man who has forgentten words?
I would like to have a word with him.

Chuang Tzu

How can wisdom be crazy?

 

[Byron In Exile]

How can wisdom be crazy?

http://www.buddhistinformation.com/tibetan/crazy_wisdom_and_tibetan_teachin.htm

Technically known as the Vajrayâna, or Diamond Vehicle, Tibet harbored the extraordinary Gnostic tradition originating from the enlightened yogic adepts and "divine madmen" of ancient India. These inspired upholders of `crazy wisdom' were holy fools who disdained speculative metaphysics and institutionalized religious forms. Carefree iconoclastic yogis called siddhas, or great attainers (a coterie including such illustrious personages as Saraha, Tilopa and Naropa and the Tibetan Drukpa Kunley), they expressed the unconditional freedom of enlightenment through divinely inspired foolishness... vastly preferring to celebrate the inherent freedom and sacredness of authentic being, rather than clinging to external religious forms and moral systems. Through their playful eccentricity, these rambunctious spiritual tricksters served to free others from delusion, social inhibitions, specious morality, complacence -- in short, all variety of mind-forged manacles.

Crazy wisdom is a heightened form of lucidity, which sees through everything. It is a delicious, higher form of sanity, based on trenchant insight into how things actually are (as well as how they appear) -- an exquisite irony unveiled by a cosmic sense of humor. It is what the Sufi author Idries Shah has dubbed "the wisdom of the idiots."

Non-dual tantricism is a potent, often ecstatic brand of transcendence, emphasizing the inherent sacredness and equality of all things. Crazy wisdom epitomizes the untrammeled essence of spirituality; flouting conventional dogma and self-righteous piety, it is the antithesis of Puritanism. The ribald humor and outrageous radical behavior of these anarchic itinerant mystics, the siddhas, never strayed into mere frivolity or licentiousness, but effectively functioned to break the spell of worldly illusion by shaking the slumberous into awakening.

Why crazy? -- Why madmen? Why fools? Because what the religious functionaries of this world call wisdom, these fearless yogis and unconventional sages perceive as nothing but folly.

Even today, Hindu India reveres it's pagala babas, those wise fools or crazy saints whose whirlwind of uncompromising activities inspire self-inquiry, creative disenchantment, and delight. Rang Avadhut, a twentieth century Indian saint, said: "The world calls me mad. I am mad, you are mad, all the world is mad. Who is not mad? Still these madman call me mad. Some are mad after name and fame. Some are mad after money. Some are mad after flesh. But blessed is he who is mad after God; such a madcap am I!" (translated by S. Thakar, Songs of the Avadhut)

The European court jester of the Middle Ages saw through pretence and hypocrisy, and enjoyed poetic license in unhesitatingly telling things as they are. The `holy fools' ("Fools for Christ's Sake") such as St. Symeon of Eemesa of the Eastern Church; Sufis including the legendary Mulla Nasruddin; historical Zen iconoclasts such as the Chinese vagabond-poets Han Shan and Shih-te, and other Zen masters; these are the spiritual kin of the Indian and Tibetan siddhas. Intoxicated by crazy wisdom, the bawdy, spontaneous behavior of these unorthodox spiritual masters rarely conformed to the rigid strictures, materialistic values and arid proprieties of respectable society.

Irreverently flaunting their uncompromising freedom by subverting all forms of social convention and superficial value systems, these enlightened lunatics had a genius for shaking up the religious establishment and keeping alive the inner meaning of spiritual truth during the time of Indian Buddhism's external decline-- continuing to motivate and challenge those members of society open to such inspired spiritual influence while appearing mad from the banal, ordinary point of view. Presumably, this is why St. Francis of Assisi once appeared stark naked in church, and also referred to himself and his disciples as "the Lord's jesters" -- parodying the apparent absurdity of existence. ...

 

[tiara suzanna]

http://www.buddhistinformation.com/tibetan/crazy_wisdom_and_tibetan_teachin.htm

Thanks for the extensive info. Now I get it.

 

[Sweetpepper]

Crazy wishom is the skeptical voice inside us that doubts our importance in the world and questions our belief in a higher purpose.
It is the nagging suspicion that both our reasions and our reasioning are mistake.


If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are. Z.B.~

 

[Hester]

http://www.buddhistinformation.com/tibetan/crazy_wisdom_and_tibetan_teachin.htm

you can see this in the smile of his holiness the dalai lama and hear it in his laughter

 

[Sweetpepper]

Crazy wisdom is intrinsically contrary, offen opposing even the loyal opposition, sometimes standing completely off the scales of ordinary human judgment.

 

[Sweetpepper]

Crazy people! ha ha ha

 

[Dhalgren150]

true wisdom is dreaming of all you want but knowing you will not have but what you need.

 

[Sweetpepper]

true wisdom is dreaming of all you want but knowing you will not have but what you need.

Gates keeper, got keys?

 

[Dhalgren150]

Gates keeper, got keys?

keep them close to my heart always.

and am guarded by my Gargoyles.

 

[Sweetpepper]

Good for you, but that didn't helps.








Begining of wisdom, finding out ( after you get it ) that what you wanted isn't.

 

[Dhalgren150]

Good for you, but that didn't helps.








Begining of wisdom, finding out ( after you get it ) that what you wanted isn't.

agree I do.

it is the quest that keeps the keys

 

[Scribbleros]

Crazy wisdom is intrinsically contrary, offen opposing even the loyal opposition, sometimes standing completely off the scales of ordinary human judgment.

Trying to fit tihis in my http://pdhomes.net/music/isleofjersey/graphics/eyebrows.gif

 

[Sweetpepper]

Trying to fit tihis in my http://pdhomes.net/music/isleofjersey/graphics/eyebrows.gif

Interesting, tell me more?

 

[MisterEdMe]

bullshit is an imposter disguised as brilliance

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance; then baffle them with bullshit.

 

[Sweetpepper]

Just because you throw stones, it doesn't mean you have to live in a glass house.

 

[Scribbleros]

Interesting, tell me more?

I still haven't absorbed that statement. I think wisdom is wisdom. Why do you term it crazy?