Is This Homeless Guy Enlightened?

[john5170]

What happened to him? I don't think it's just plain crazy. He seems to have reached enlightenment but his brain cannot handle it....

[Space]

@john5170 Well I don't think he's enlightened, no. But he's is just a normal guy. The crazy talking etc is all done for laughs. There's one or two interviews of him talking about why he does it on Youtube.

Edited July 6, 2017 by Space

[Ananta]

4 hours ago, john5170 said:

He seems to have reached enlightenment but his brain cannot handle it....

It's a joke. See the cardboard pieces, taped around his microphone?

[Prabhaker]

@john5170

A madman sometimes can have glimpses which the rational man cannot have because the madman has stepped out of the mechanism of mind; of course on the wrong side, from the back door, but still he is out of the mind. Even from the back door he can have some glimpses which are not available to the people who never come out of the house. Certainly he is not so fortunate as to have come from the front door: that needs tremendous effort.

Madness is a disease. It happens to you - you don't have to make an effort to be mad. It is a sickness and it is curable. Enlightenment happens through tremendous awareness and arduous effort.

Enlightenment is the supreme health.

In the West, once in a while - it is not an everyday phenomenon, but once in a while - an enlightened person has been understood as being mad, because the West understands only one thing: if you are out of your mind, you are mad. It has no category for above the mind; it has only one category - below the mind.

In the East the misunderstanding happens because for centuries the East has known people who are out of their mind and at the same time above the mind; hence, they are similar to madmen. For the Eastern masses it creates a confusion, it creates a problem. They have decided it is better to misunderstand a madman as being an enlightened man than to misunderstand an enlightened man as being a madman - because what are you losing by misunderstanding a madman as being an enlightened man? You are not losing anything. But by misunderstanding an enlightened man as being a madman you are certainly losing a tremendous opportunity. But the misunderstanding is possible because of the similarities.

  Osho ~ From Personality To Individuality

[Ananta]

@Prabhaker it's still a joke. It's a guy with a jacked up fake microphone and a fake reporter. 

[Prabhaker]

4 minutes ago, Anna1 said:

It's a guy with a jacked up fake microphone and a fake reporter. 

This guy is acting like a madman, but is not mad. He is not enlightened either.

[Echoes]

@john5170 He is a street performer in New York. His name is Matthew Silver

https://www.instagram.com/silver.matthew/

[Ananta]

3 minutes ago, Echoes said:

@john5170 He is a street performer in New York. His name is Matthew Silver

https://www.instagram.com/silver.matthew/

And there you have it, case closed.

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