Jhana, Bill. Not madness. Madness is just a superficial description in
human logic.
After repeated states of Jhana, nothing else matters. All become
clear. All acceptable. Then when in sync with Buddha, we know.
jm
On 9/5/2012 8:02 AM, William Rintala wrote:
I've read, all that I have been able to find, everything written by
Ram Dass (born, Richard Alpert), from "Be Here Now" through "The Only
Dance There Is" to his most recent book "Be Love Now". His work "Be
Here Now", 40 years ago, was my starting point on the journey that has
lead me to this forum. His new book rehashes a lot of stuff that was
in his earlier works. What's new is the last section where he presents
the lives of several Hindu Saints. In each case the Saint displayed
behavior that I think would get most of us locked up in a padded cell
or admitted to an ICU and put on heavy doses of medications. It
seems, however, that this crisis was essential for the Saint to
become fully realized. In reading about them I am reminded of the
story of Eckhart Tolle's biography where " For the best part of two
years in the early 1980s a man in his mid-30s would sit on a park
bench in Russell Square, central London, and in a state of deep bliss
watch the world go by." Descriptions sound almost as if he had had a
schizophrenic break.
My question to the Forum is "is madness a precursor to enlightenment?"
Bill not Bill!
Find what makes your heart sing…and do it!
