Dragon Thunder and Innocent Hearts.

Currently Reading Dragon Thunder, by Diana Mukpo, wife of Chogyam Trungpa. She wrote a book about her life and experience with a great Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, also known as a “Crazy Wisdom Master.”  In this account of her life, I’ve read a lot that is similar to what my life has been living with a crazy Wisdom Master for the past 5 years, and knowing one for 9.  The thread that I’ve been following the most is about how she related to her family in the midst of a community, next to her husband- a teacher, and how that all went down.  I have found and seen with most spiritual communities the children are the background, as it sounded from her this was the case.  Currently living in a spiritual community the main project has been the child rearing of Leeloo Love, my daughter.  What was once a single focus as practitioners and dharma expanded through the arrival of a child.  Since them Leeloo has been the healing of many people, not just because of who she is, but from the approach I, Mursshud, and the community took.  The New Being Project, a place where every child is given the oppurtunity to live there life without being shrouded by the veils of illusion.  This idea is only the tip of the iceberg, and it may even seem high-minded, yet I assure you that it’s not.  Its the simple truth of innocence and purity, the heart every child is born into.

 The past few days after the retreat we had the pleasure of  two families staying with us in Long Beach, and seeing the interest of this approach/style of child rearing.  I see the opportunity of a new template being laid down for family’s, conscious family rearing as a spiritual practice.  So far it’s been in an incubation within a community, and it’s beginning to creep out to others. 

For those of you unknown to Chogyam Trungpa, his life brought Tibetan Buddhism in the US, that by far changed Americans forever.