tao and madness

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"Self" is conceived, I feel, somewhat differently from
        Western/American view of self as source of itself, as arbiter,
        constructor of reality.

I can't speak for any other person who has taken meditation on, however I 
wonder, why limit yourself?  This statement sounds like a belief that fights 
with other beliefs.  I don't doubt that at moments reality is constructed by 
the self, but I do doubt this as a source of wisdom.  I wouldn't call this 
tendency "Western" either.
  Oh, and I merely tried to say that in my experience inside a psychology 
classroom in Chicago, IL, USA over the last 5 months or so I haven't heard the 
word "madness" used.

"The Tao does nothing."
-Lao Tzu

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