[Buddha-l] Crazy Wisdom

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 09:49 +0800, John Whalen-Bridge wrote:
> On Joni Mitchell’s crazy wisdom Richard Hayes wrote:
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> > What a strange, strange boy
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> > He still lives with his family
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> > Even the war and the navy
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> > couldn't bring him to maturity
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> I always thought this song was a nod to Vajradhatu, but I never heard
> whether or not Joni hung out in Colorado.

The claim is made on a Joni Mitchell website that some of the lyrics in
the song "Refuge of the Roads" refers to Trungpa, whom she met three
times. She claims he induced an egoless state in her that lasted for
three days. She considers him one of the most important Zen teachers in
life of Zen practice. The lyrics she wrote about him:


I met a friend of spirit
He drank and womanized
And I sat before his sanity
I was holding back from crying
He saw my complications
And he mirrored me back simplified
And we laughed how our perfection
Would always be denied
"Heart and humor and humility"
He said "Will lighten up your heavy load"
I left him for the refuge of the roads

> She did publish something brief in a Zen Center magazine named “ZERO,”
> alongside Leonard Cohen, I think.

I wish they'd make an album together. Of course, I also wish that Tom
Waits and Diana Ross would make an album together. The universe has
learned not to pay much attention to my wishes.

-- 
Richard