What about madness?

Madness is an inability to grasp reality, to face it and come to terms with it. To a certain extent, we are all mad. Shared madness results in collective delusions... and those who don't share them will probably be labelled as "mad".

Turning from slavery to dominion is the privilege of those prepared to look at things as they are. There is often suffering involved, because of the division between "what I wanted" and "what is".

However, if I am prepared to accept my present limitations unconditionally, they cease to limit me. If I am prepared to see, to really face and understand whatever is there... then I cannot go mad.

They say four rabbis went to heaven while they were in meditation. One died. One would not believe it and fell into skepticism, which led to heresy. One went mad. Only the fourth one was prepared to say "yes" to the full extent of the experience and come back to earth with it, prepared to share it, to use it.

Let me not deny what IS.