Gabriel Mizrahi

There is a crazy story about him.

I guess he once drove his sports car into a store, possibly slash probably drunk, and the accident left him partially paralyzed.

So he's had quite a life.

Yeah, sheesh.

There is so much to say about this guy.

There are reports of cocaine use, weird sexual stuff at parties, incoherent lectures.

He had a track record of very dodgy behavior.

The list goes on and on.

Some former students described aspects of his community as cult-like, although I guess reasonable people might disagree about whether it was actually a cult.

Sometimes you just need a little, you need a little, you need to go skiing.

Little bump.

Yeah, that's right.

This is another form of it.

We need many traditions.

But then a lot of his supporters frame this behavior as a Tibetan concept called crazy wisdom, which basically means a teaching style that's meant to shock students out of their ego and attachment.

That's all.

My car wasn't totaled.

It just was sacrificed on the altar of crazy wisdom.

So in the end, he renounced his vows in 1969 and then he died young, if you can believe it, in 1987.

And he was like 48 years old.