People Are Crazy

Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion

Including you and me. Tibetan Buddhist master Chogyam Trungpa liked to use “neuroses” as his modern, westernized term to help explain Buddhism in the modern west.

Until we awaken fully, we are still a bit neurotic, at least. Our perspective on the world is at least slightly deranged from the load of concepts we start to learn from the culture we grew up in, starting pretty much from the moment we pop out of the womb.