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“For the ordinary man or woman, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices … life is … centered not in reality itself but in one’s ideas of it.” The Three Pillars of Zen

One could reasonably argue “there is no such things as “the truth or reality” and the nearest thing to it is our state of mind when we desist from searching for it. (paraphrasing from the The Games Zen Masters Play)

If a definition of sane is proceeding from a mentally sound rational mind capable of correctly anticipating and appraising the effect of one's actions, are any but the saints among us sane?

So, just because someone is wealthy and powerful and has assumed the role of King, let’s not presume they are sane.