A friend sent an old news link about how a girl killed and cut her parents into pieces due to both frustration and fear. The news reported on investigation into whether she was mentally ill or not. But of course she was ill! Even if she was proven not ill in the conventional medical sense, she was ill in the spiritual sense. If she is believed to be not unsound in any way, isn’t it more disturbing?
As long as we have and let latent greed and hatred manifest from delusions unchecked by ourselves by mindfulness, we are already unsound to that extent. It is scary how a moment of unmindful rage can spin out of control, leading from one regretful ‘crazy’ act to another… which is why it is important to tune to our Buddha-nature by mindfulness of Buddha as much as we can! Amituofo