Daily Dharma: You Are Completely Crazy

[image source]

Today's Daily Dharma from Tricycle:

You Are Completely Crazy

Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. You also are no crazier than anybody else around you. The real difference is that you have confronted the situation; they have not. So they still feel relatively comfortable. This does not mean that they are better off. Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to Liberation. So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress. The very fact that you have looked at the problem straight in the eye means that you are on your way up and out of it.

~ Henepola Guanaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

Tags: Daily Dharma, Buddhism, Tricycle, crazy, mindfulness, Henepola Guanaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English