Tathagata

Rinzler's presentation relates to quality longevity since we're here and traveling whatever spiritual path we're on or resisting.

About 1,000 monks and nuns in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region have initiated a signature campaign to express love for the country and religion.

Meditation makes you calmer and clearer and encourages empathy and kindness a right? Not if you are Anders Behring Breivik who has told psychiatrists that he used meditation to "numb the full spectrum of human emotion - happiness to sorrow, despair, hopelessness, and fear". He still practises it behind bars to deaden the impact of his actions.

Spokeswoman Klejda Plangarica says the bus went off the road Monday near the town of Himare, 137 miles south of the capital, Tirana.

Indian authorities have dropped charges against Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader involving $1.35 million in cash discovered at his monastery in northern India.

"Crazy wisdom" came up a few times in recent comments, so I thought I'd elaborate on it a bit.  In it's most basic definition, "crazy wisdom" refers an enlightened person behaving in socially unconventional ways. You can find "crazy wisdom" in many spiritual traditions, including Taoism and Hinduism.

The "crazy wise" person, freed from convention and self-clinging, spontaneously responds to life without inhibition. "Crazy wisdom" masters through history have broken rules, including precepts. They snubbed people in authority, took lovers, drank alcohol, dressed inappropriately (or not at all). Can this really be wisdom?

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Crazy Wisdom: What It Is, What It Isn't originally appeared on About.com Buddhism on Monday, May 21st, 2012 at 14:04:10.

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