Someone said they enjoyed my meditation nerdery more than my food tweets so I’m here to tell you... Jigme Lingpa was a depressive
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I can see this making sense but I’m wondering what specifically made you think so?
I’m taking liberties, from Janet Gyatso’s analysis of his autobiographies, which include his descriptions of deep sadnesses as part of the tension between self expression and transcendent insight. I’m being a bit silly, but I have found inspiration in his story re: pain/sadness.
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I think especially where it is included as a religious narrative — longing for the father guru or what have you — it is silly to make any reasonable judgement about his mental state, but his frequent allusions to deep sadness are presented as a sort of gateway or rich interface.
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Trungpa Rinpoche often spoke like this too. Was a central feature of his terma, where sadness, compassion, and openness are said to coarise
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tx! I haven’t read that
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