Chaos Is Part of the Fun

Trungpa Rinpoche was once in a bar in Texas, teasing the rednecks. One got so bent about it that he pulled his pistol. Trungpa characteristically took the barrel and placed it directly on his own temple.

"Shoot," he said, with a big smile.

The redneck wet his pants. True story told to me by two people who were there.

Anyway, here is Trungpa on that very topic:

What would you do if there were no conflict? It would be deadly. Working with conflict is precisely the idea of walking on the spiritual path. The path is a wild, winding mountain road with all kinds of curves; there are wild animals, attacks by bandits, all kinds of situations cropping up. As far as the occupation of our mind is concerned, the chaos of the path is the fun.