Uptightness

Cool picture (Tibetan rinpoche meets beat poet and American mystic) and great insight into that harrumphiness that has been an undertow in my life. My uptightness is something I really try to hide from people. But resentment has been a really big guiding light in my life, leading me precisely nowhere... So as with my grumpiness I give up all right to it...as of now!

Trungpa, who gave us the great concepts of "crazy wisdom" and "spiritual materialism". made a tremendous effort to bring western neurosis under the penetrating microscope of Tibetan wisdom.

Here's his take on uptightness - a condition that we all have to own but has a real stink of the "uncool" about it:

"Everything is based on our own uptightness. We could blame the organisation; we could blame the government; we could blame the food; we could blame the highways; we could blame our own motorcars, our own clothes; we could blame an infinite variety of things. But it is we who are not letting go, nor developing enough warmth and sympathy - which makes us problematic.

So we cannot blame anybody!"