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Leap of faith
Those of us who were not Trungpa’s students tend to focus on his alcoholism and his messy death, as if those “facts” infer something about his quality as a man. To his students, the “facts” reveal only a small and unimportant part of the story. They focus not on how alcohol helped break down Trungpa’s body, but on the constant brilliance of his mind. They do not judge him by ordinary standards because they do not believe he was an ordinary person. They honestly see even his drinking as a teaching. For the rest of us, that takes a leap of faith.
- David Swick
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