Lotan Baba
True story from Gus:
Great Tibetan practitioners, when they die, they stay in meditation for days or even weeks after their breath stops. (This is a common thing, not, like, a legend.) They stay sitting erect and their body emits a pleasant smell. Then the moment their meditation is done, the most subtle mind leaves the body, and immediately the
the figure of the “ wise fool ”— alternatively, the paradoxical notion that the fool may be wise and that the wise may be foolish — has a long and distin-guished pedigree, not only in the Christian tradition (e.g., the “ fool in Christ ” or the “ fool for Christ ’ s sake ” ) but also in other religions (e.g., the Sufi majzub and the Hindu avadhuta... See more