[MD] of sanity and intellect

[John Carl]

Here Ron, I came across this this morning apropos of your post and would
only add to the words of the Buddha, "Where's the concrete??"


John


The SURANGAMA SUTRA as quoted by Jack Kerouac in a compilation of his
writings Some of the Dharma


"You have doubtless heard about the insane man, Yayattadha in this very city
of Sravasti.  One morning he looked into a mirror and saw his head but it
had no eyes nor eyebrows.  he became very angry with his own head and blamed
it as being the head of a goblin because it had no eyes or eyebrows, and ran
away quite crazy.  What do you think, Purna?    Did the man have any good
reason for becoming crazy?"


 Purna replied:--It seems to me, Blessed Lord, that he had no other reason
than this, that he was crazy already.


 The Lord Buddha replied:--Purna!  Our mysterious Intuitive Nature is
perfect and enlightening and its natural perfection is intelligent and
profound.  Since the True Nature is free from all illusions (the True Mind),
so the illusions are naturally devoid of any reality, and, therefore, have
no source of existence.  It they have no source of existence, they are no
longer illusions even.  All these thought-illusions have been raised by mean
of their own reciprocal manifestations thus the piling up of delusion upon
delusion has been going on for kalpa after kalpa as many as the particles of
dust in the air.

Though the Buddhas have disclosed their falsity, yet sentient beings cannot
at once recognize their falsity and return to their natural state of
enlightenment.  The source of these delusions is nowhere else but within
one's own mind.


 As soon as you understand the source of a delusion, the deluding conception
loses its hold upon existence.  If within your mind you provide no source
for these false conceptions, there will be none to be discarded.  Those who
have attained enlightenment are as if awakening from sleep, and their past
life seems only a dream.


 However clear one's memory may be, it is impossible to reproduce any
dreamed of object---no matter under what conditions or causes.  It would be
more impossible for you to grasp that which has no hold whatever upon its
own source of existence.  Like the insane man of Sravasti who ran away
because of the wholly imaginary and fantastic thoughts of his mind, with no
other cause or conditions.  If this insanity was suddenly cured, his
consciousness of his head would just as suddenly be recovered, and no matter
whether his insanity is cured or not, his head is on his body.


 Purna, the illusions of the mind are just as fantastic and no more basis
for existence."





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