Crazy Wisdom is often defined as: "The Wisdom Beyond Logic".
If you are familiar with the Medicine path or the Dharma path of Tibetan Buddhism you might be familiar with Crazy wisdom. Often it is laughter laughing at what might kill you if you perceived it otherwise causing you to die of a stroke or heart attack. Americans for example, are known for their Gallows Humor which keeps them going and not giving up during wartime.
But, the stories I will tell here aren't about warfare they are about Crazy Wisdom and how it keeps us alive and heals us through amazing situations.
The first story I was told by a medicine man I was studying with in the early 1980s at a place called Two Ravens in Idaho at a gathering of many people there.
He said, "There was a man in pain because his shoulder had become dislocated so he went into a sweat lodge with a Medicine man and others. They were handing around a peace pipe when suddenly the medicine man said "Here!" to the man with a dislocated shoulder. The man screamed because he had grabbed the peace pipe and his shoulder had snapped back into the socket.
This is the first Crazy Wisdom story.
The 2nd Crazy wisdom story is about a medicine man who was at Mt. St. Helens when it exploded and killed almost all people near to it. The man was camping at the foot of Mt. St. Helens and had to pee in the morning. So, he stood at the top of a cliff next to his campsite and peed off the cliff. But, the concussion of the mountain exploding right then blew him off the cliff and into the "Spirit River?" running there. While he was trying to avoid branches and trees and rocks and was held underwater by them thinking he was going to drown about 70 people were dying from the blast. But, since he was held under the water he wasn't damaged by the explosion other than scratches and wounds from branches, trees and rocks hitting him underwater. So, finally when he struggled to the surface of the water he found everything was gone. The Trees were gone! The mountain was gone and everything living pretty much was gone except for him. Everyone he had been camping alongside had died. So, he walked out until he could get help because he was the ONLY one that close the mountain to have survived this blast when Mt. St. Helens blew her Top in the early 1980s.
Note: Correction: It was Spirit Lake and Toutle River
Here are some videos of this area.
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