The Tibetan for crazy wisdom is yeshé ’cholwa. According to Trungpa Rinpoche, it means ‘wisdom gone wild’. Yeshé means primordial awareness and ’cholwa means thrown into chaos. This is the quality of nondual realisation which offends conventional spirituality. Crazy wisdom offends conventional spirituality because of the compromises that conventional spirituality makes with duality. Where socially controlled, organised, regimented, religious pedestrianism corrupts the essence of nondual teaching – crazy wisdom can be manifested to clear the decks.
