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Good Book From a Controversial Teacher, Mars 6 2004
Don't worry about where or how other minds meditate, then you already understand "not too loose, not too tight" my friend in Wyckoff, NJ. It simply indicates non clinging and non preference. Nothing special. Chogyam Trungpa had often been referred to as a womanizer and a drunk, yet in this book his mind appears to be completely clear. Like many things in our lives, often we look for things to acquire or possess; in Buddhism, it's some sort of attainment. Always searching and looking, buying and obtaining while all too often not seeing the truth of the Buddha that is us. We hear this teaching, say we understand this teaching, and then our minds still wander away in search of the "right teacher and right attainment." Never satisfied, not often that is, with life as it is. There is nothing wrong with aspiration in practice, but if we aspire with a notion of self then we will never aspire and attain anything; it is just not the way of the Buddha. Some have criticized Trungpa over the years for using the Guru/ Truth thing as a mind control technique over his students, and actually it's a somewhat sounds argument. He was known to ask followers to strip naked before him, a humiliating experience for many; all while he said it was to cut through their hiding and closed mindedness. One woman was stripped against her will. I don't say this to discredit Chogyam Trungpa and his followers, for people like Pema Chodron are very compassionate and clear teachers. I just think that like all of us, sometimes what he said and what he did were two different things. Nothing too out of the ordinary. The Guru (Truth) is a human being, and it's a wakeup call, a dose of reality. All in all this was a good book, and although I have disagreed with Trungpa's often grandiose lifestyle and teachings, I nevertheless give this work a great review. It's full of good and sound advice. Enjoy it!
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