Everyone is crazy, some. People are aware of this and act accordingly; some people think they are sane.
This conversation makes me think we should split off a "macho mystical experiences" group that can focus on the absolute, and allow this listserv group the much more boing task of seeing the absolute and the relative intermingled. On Friday, January 27, 2012, rewrisk <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds pretty good to me. > My dissagreements would largely be semantic. > Insanity as a word has a definition that is interesting to myself as I see it as a failure to recognize instinctive motivation and hence repeating the same actions expecting results to differ. > > --- In [email protected], Kristopher Grey <kris@...> wrote: >> >> On 1/26/2012 10:34 PM, rewrisk wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > You must both know your own mind and be able to exercise control over >> > it or any powerfull Satori will leave you insane. >> > >> >> I also see this potential for people going insane. Perhaps all do. Some >> in ways society can ignore or tolerate, some not (sanity is a societal >> judgement after all). By current standards, Buddha was insane (no doubt >> many thought so then). An aspect of the shift is clearly seeing the root >> insanity of "the human condition" that passes for "normal" - often >> expressed as a sort of reversal or inversion of relation. >> >> Mind controlling mind is as good a description of illusion as any, so I >> might not express functioning in terms of control, but I am not >> disagreeing. Such control is a sort of convenient fiction (same as "I" >> than controls). Rather than overt control, I experience mind not >> minding mind (in both senses of the word minding. Not tending to, not >> bothered by - just mindful of whatever arises as present experiencing). >> Letting mind do as it naturally does, without attaching to or rejecting >> what thoughts or feelings arise - experiencing directly - all the while >> still appearing to make choices to navigate this experiencing. The >> choices conveniently labeled so in immediate afterthought, to weave >> together the narrative. >> >> Just insane rambling. ;) >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Thanks, --Chris [email protected] +1-301-270-6524
