[MD] of sanity and intellect

[John Carl]

His story is interesting because it got told by so many different and
interesting men.  All those blind men give us each his picture of their
elephant.
What came across to me was how hard he tried to please, to fit in with
whatever group attracted him, starting with the old bums of denver.




On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:44 AM, X Acto <xacto at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> John,
> Been reading up on anything Neal Cassady, I've known some similar.
>
> I ran with a criminal element for a time, and I have to say it was a rush.
> freedom, a sort of arrogance and freedom from the law from static patterns.
> I had a lawlessness that was empowering exciting and fun.
> very liberating.
>
> but that got old, and it turned into paranoia.
>
> Neal, grew up on the streets,understood he ran a good con.
> I can just imagine how exciting, this streetwise kid. those NYC
> intellectuals.
> hung out and opened eachother to living a life that had been statically
> filtered
> before.
>
> the rush of saying fuck you to static dominance.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com>
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:15:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [MD] of sanity and intellect
>
> 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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