Bill, That depends on how you define 'madness'.
Severing your attachment to logic/reason/rationality is a precursor to experiencing Buddha Nature, and I think it is also a requirement. ...and that's what I've been saying for the past 30 or so posts! ...Bill! --- In [email protected], William Rintala <brintala@...> 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 singâ¦and do it! > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
