If you see the buddha on the road, kill him

[sanjuro_ronin]

irreverence is good on occasion, for a philosophical life system often mistaken for a religion.

It helps to remind us not to get too attached to our own self-importance.

However to fundamentally mistake the middle path for the extremes of asceticism because of an incorrect attachment to nationalism is just silly.

Also, sr, you got me in a tiny spot of trouble with the wife!

bbwwaaahhhh !!!
bbwwaahhhhh
bbbbwwwaahhhhh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Scott R. Brown]

Can you really say that?

I didn't say it. The Chan masters said it. I merely agree with them!

There is an old passage, it is found in one of the first Chan treatises. In paraphrase:

It is like a man who is looking for the pearl on his headband. He searches and searches. He looks here and there all over the world, then one day he discovers he has been wearing it the whole time. All his searching was a waste of time, because his pearl was never lost from the beginning. How can you lose something that was never lost from the beginning. Not recognizing you have it is not the same thing as losing it.

This is posted from my cell,, I cannot delete that lower line there!

pearl was never lost from the beginning

[rett]

I didn't say it. The Chan masters said it. I merely agree with them!

In that case I rephrase my question. Can you really agree with them?

[Scott R. Brown]

Yes!

But it doesn't really matter to THUSNESS one way or the other whether I or anyone else agrees or not. Agreement and disagreement are still THUSNESS!

[taai gihk yahn]

It's too soon for that.

true, we'll have to wait until u sober up...

[taai gihk yahn]

Yes!

But it doesn't really matter to THUSNESS one way or the other whether I or anyone else agrees or not. Agreement and disagreement are still THUSNESS!

I agree to disagree with your thusness;

[Scott R. Brown]

I agree to disagree with your thusness;

Its not mine! You can have it! I don't want it! It's old and used! I only like the shiny, new ones without everyone's finger prints all over it! Once it gets fingers prints all over it, I kill it on the road!

Thus it is called, "ROAD KILL THUSNESS"!

[Sal Canzonieri]

The title says it all.

We get attached to labels, "internal, external," "traditional, modern," "pure, mixed," and it's all a distraction from reality.

When somebody clings to his preconceived notions too tightly he forms attachments.

If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him.

The way it was explained to me was:
if you are so divided in thought that your ego is noticeable, then get rid of it.

This is a great old book about it:
http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Buddha-Pi...5363997&sr=1-1

[rett]

true, we'll have to wait until u sober up...

or can walk the line drunk well enough to fool a CHP occifer

[Dragonzbane76]

Read through this, it gave me a good chuckle. That is all.

[SimonM]

Read through this, it gave me a good chuckle. That is all.

Then my job here is done.

[TenTigers]

I didn't say it. The Chan masters said it. I merely agree with them!

There is an old passage, it is found in one of the first Chan treatises. In paraphrase:

It is like a man who is looking for the pearl on his headband. He searches and searches. He looks here and there all over the world, then one day he discovers he has been wearing it the whole time. All his searching was a waste of time, because his pearl was never lost from the beginning. How can you lose something that was never lost from the beginning. Not recognizing you have it is not the same thing as losing it.

This is posted from my cell,, I cannot delete that lower line there!

pearl was never lost from the beginning

"Well, I... I think that it... that it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em... and it's that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."
Great Chan Master, Dorothy Gale

[Scott R. Brown]

"Well, I... I think that it... that it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em... and it's that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."
Great Chan Master, Dorothy Gale

<sniff sniff> There's no place like home, there's no place like home!

That would be Great Chan Master L. Frank Baum!

[TenTigers]

<sniff sniff> There's no place like home, there's no place like home!

That would be Great Chan Master L. Frank Baum!

Ain't it da truth! Ain't it da truth!

[Ronin22]

The title says it all.

We get attached to labels, "internal, external," "traditional, modern," "pure, mixed," and it's all a distraction from reality.

When somebody clings to his preconceived notions too tightly he forms attachments.

If you see the Buddha on the road, kill him.

I've always interpreted that phrase as something like

If we choose to take a "path" to enlightenment don't follow the Buddha, you must find your own way thus, killing him will eliminate the attachment to his teachings.