Question
Maybe the difference is that the sage is the one who has escaped illusion?
What do you think?
Anonymous
Answer from Master Kosen
The sage knows the nature of illusion. That is certainly not the case with madmen.
Even if a sage may seem mad in the eyes of fools,
and those same fools think the two can be compared, and madmen often think themselves sages,
they definitely have nothing to do with each other.
Kosen