Lotuschef in Chat - The Divine Madman

[The Divine Madman 
The Sublime Life and Songs of Drukpa Kunley

The Tantric Buddhist Master Drukpa Kunley is one of Tibet's foremost saints and yogis and the patron saint of Bhutan. 

He belongs to the Drukpa (Dragon) school of Tibetan Buddhism established by Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa and Milarepa. 

Well known to common Tibetans through the oral tradition of legends and songs, as well as to scholars and mystics through his biographies, he is greatly loved by all the people of Tibet as an enlightened master and an exponent of 'crazy wisdom'. 

He taught through outrageous behavior and ribald humor in order to awaken the people he met to a higher awareness free from conventional morality and self-obsession. 

In particular he took his female friends and disciples along the path of sexual desire and relationship to free them from attachment to the illusory world and to awaken their buddha-nature. 

He would constantly taunt the monks with jest and insult to dissolve their hypocrisy and hidden faults. 

He was a Dzogchen yogi following the highest path of Yoga-tantra and his Dzogchen songs are some of the best in the Tibetan language.'

'There is no other book translated from Tibetan that discloses the 'secret' life of a crazy yogi and reveals the rationale and teaching processes that modern masters such as Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche have used to such beneficial effect in America. 

This work reveals how Buddhist Tantra is lived on the ground through the life of a realized adept and discloses the sexual mores of a tantric society. 

The Divine Madman is the most potent introduction to the high teaching of tantra to date.'

'In Thimphu I ran into a phenomena common to both India and Bhutan: reference for the wandering ascetic who combines preaching religion with sex and liquor. 

He takes them as they come his way. 

As a matter of historical fact homeless purveyors of faith and sexual delights were known to all religions: Rabelais has written about lascivious monks consorting with nuns; Islam has its mast-qalandars and pagal babas. 

Of the same genre were yogis of Mirabai's hymns from whom Indian housewives sought spiritual and sexual gratification... 

Drukpa Kunley's anecdotes are ribald beyond belief. 

Wherever he went he carried his 'divine thunderbolt of wisdom' (his penis) before him. 

It penetrated the mysteries of life as it did willing virgins. 

The bawdy tales of fornication and copious intake of chung wine are interspersed with words of wisdom, advice on how to square one's karma, escape the vicious circle of samsara (birth, death and rebirth) and attain nirvana. 

The god-fearing but high-living Lama Drukpa Kunley sums up his philosophy: "The best chung wine lies at the bottom of the pail / And Happiness lies below the navel." ' Khushwant Singh.

Note: The American rights to The Divine Madman were bought by Dawn Horse Press, the publishing arm of Da Free John, aka Adi Da Samraj, the American tantric teacher. It has an introduction by the editor James Steinberg, a scholar and devotee of Adi Da Samraj. Keith Dowman is in no way attached to the cult of Adi Da Samraj, and he disclaims all responsibility for the material presented in the editor's introduction. ]

AA: I think in one the past sermon, GM ever mentioned this person, denoting that the male sexual organ is actually the vajra weapon.
This divine madman is very exceptional and you would enjoy reading the excerpts :)
A true mahamudra practitioner.

http://www.keithdowman.net/books/dm.htm

Cheers all :)




LC: this is level four yoga - realization and wisdom beyond others n perceived as extreme crazy.

{{ he is greatly loved by all the people of Tibet as an enlightened
master and an exponent of 'crazy wisdom'. 

He taught through outrageous behavior and ribald humor in order to awaken the people he met to a
higher awareness free from conventional morality and self-obsession...}}




AA: While reading the excerpts, they reminded me of GM and you. Sharp and witty teachings, but undeniable!



LC: Hahaha! High praise indeed!
As for me? Hehe! Long way to go still. :)
But I admit that to many, what I share seem like ET! :)

Cheers all

Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom

Lama Lotuschef