Trungpa's vices are what many followers see as his "crazy wisdom," though some seem perplexed by the excesses in a man they consider enlightened.
The tyranny of the short term has extended itself with frightening ease into the entities that were meant to, one way or another, discipline Wall Street, and force it to consider its enlightened self-interest.
His 2001 e-mail exchange with Nike over an attempt to order a sneaker customized with the word "sweatshop," for example, has been seen by more than 10 million people, he said, and a Web site he created with his sister Chelsea in 2002 called "Black People Love Us," which satirizes a white couple who consider themselves enlightened on race relations, had three million page views in one month.
Even before he left the yeshiva he considered himself enlightened & read modern books.
Here is an analysis of despotism and the power of power - you're put in jail for 'little stealings', while for the big thefts, 'they make you emperor' - which has been considered both enlightened (it was the first American play to put the black experience at its centre, in 1920) and repugnant (a mammee-speaker sinks into the primeval).
But the reason many western observers would ask Iran that question is because they consider Iran not enlightened enough to care for the environment.
It is also enlightening to consider the biomass of the strains at the end of the culture.
· And if you are a multi-millionaire property developer, consider doing something truly enlightened: buy the house, pay to have it restored, put it to some use that will not damage its fabric.
Consider if you're enlightened enough to handle this.
But, Mr. Eissa said, "He held a lot of views that were considered to be enlightened at a time when the extremist religious tide is rising in Egypt and the Muslim world".
