Is this book still a good resource despite the fact that the writer was slamming out prostitutes while claiming to be enlightened? Personally, I found it to be pretty useful, but now I am curious if I was just pranked by a guru.
Is this book still a good resource despite the fact that the writer was slamming out prostitutes while claiming to be...
Thomas Murphy
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Hudson Gonzalez
It's a book about meditation, not about morality. It will surely lead you to jhanas and other great things. And imagine having sex after emerging from a powerful jhana: it must be quite incredible.
Dylan Carter
On the one hand, direct experience should be your ultimate guide. You are your own teacher.
On the other, why trust the word of a revealed charlatan?
John Thomas
True. Come to think of it, going far down the path of meditation may be pretty dangerous without a foundation or development of morality.
Henry Harris
>despite the fact that the writer was slamming out prostitutes while claiming to be enlightened?
I don't want to minimize what he did but this isn't a new problem. Trungpa's shinanegans were worse than Culadasa's by orders of magnitude yet he WAS the real deal and his books are still worth reading.
Jackson Anderson
There is no enlightenment. You can always know more.
Michael Bailey
I know of no other single book which will so closely detail meditation progress and technique. Most are general pointers and tips while this book constitutes an entire step by step path. Where that path ultimately leads has been called into question but technique is technique and Culadasa did not invent really any of it, just put it in order. So I would say yes it's still a good resource.
Trungpa probably realized his chances at making any further progress were none at a certain point and just decided to drink himself to death and get a few kick in on the way. He was the real deal, used to carry around a scrying glass that he could see the future with.
Jacob Price
>he WAS the real deal
This is what is meant by the Latter Day of the Law
Bentley Morgan
>He was the real deal, used to carry around a scrying glass that he could see the future with.
Whaaatttt?!! You have a source on this? I’m mildly interested in Chogyam Trungpa and even though it’d probably be a manifestation of what he’d call “spiritual materialism”, I’ve wondered what his views on the more outright magical and miraculous aspects of Tibetan Buddhism are. Siddhis and the like. He doesn’t so much get into that as he does into how to deal with your emotions, which is nice in its own way, but...
Joshua Cook
watch the movie"Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche" it's mentioned in that