According to Buddhism, every human being has the ability to awaken, acquire Buddha-nature, and liberate himself. This awakening can come after some fortuitous event, some suffering, some event that causes one to deeply question oneself: who am I? Why does what happens? Who asks "who am I"? Within this process of interrogations, and already in practice, there are two ways of dealing with oneself: the first consists of trying to live according to what we would like to be; the second, in trying to be what we really are.

This book explains the fallacy of the first attitude, a fallacy that in the Buddhist tradition is known as spiritual materialism, a fallacy that we find in all religions, with their techniques to associate ourselves with the good, the best, or even with the Supreme Good. Because it is already seen that what leads us to this is precisely our interested search for spiritual pleasure.

The path of overcoming spiritual materialism, on the other hand, makes one go further and further exploring without stopping at any answer. It is precisely about reaching a point where there is no longer an answer. Nor do you ask. Where there is no longer any hope or despair. This point is the kernel of crazy wisdom.

We are used to pretending to be what we are not; but in Crazy Wisdom we are led beyond the farce, towards a place without reference, leaving aside the beacons of good and evil.