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. ;)
