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’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.
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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Indeed! I suspect that’s a big part of my receptivity to what he was saying. It wasn’t all fluffy and nice, he spoke of depression & sadness with intimacy (without meditation being used as a therapeutic modality per se). PS: I wonder what Gyatso translated as depression
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