He probably would have thrown a flaming varja from his fingertips to destroy all this current corruption of the authentic dharma. He was a anarchist. Not an apologist for all the incredible b….s..t. he must have seen in his own day in Tibet.

He brought the King to his knees instead of what King Tritsong Detsun had planned for him.

STOP APOLOGIZING for ourselves. That’s what got us in this mess in the first place. Accomodating and accepting every “watering down act ” that turned the lineage that we inherited into simple palace theatre because we always believed that “others must know best.”.

Authentic Dharma is about finding our own voice, stripping ourselves to who we really are, not mimicking another culture. And being willing to give up our “social ego.”. It is about finding the 2 percent of pith dharma, and casting the cultural trappings aside. They are they to enslave us. Not set us free. That’s what the practices are about, peeling off the layers and masks on the journey to our own genuineness.

Some of us are sixty years old and more. Are we going to continue to apologize for ourselves til the day we die, and assume that intelligence and wisdom are always outside ourselves?. Worship ordinary people who haven’t practiced themselves and have no more realization than ourselves? At some point we have to go deep within and trust ourselves to continue on the journey. Including recognizing bullshit for what it is. There is no other way. Otherwise we have wasted these precious teachings.

I wanted to put in a plug for the Chronicle Project, which also seems very helpful and involved in preserving Trungpa Rinpoche’s legacy. (I had forgotten about them earlier.)