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Feb 7, 2019 · "The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi is supposed to have said, 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.' Like much of Zen teaching, this seems too cute by half, but it makes a valuable point: to turn the Buddha into a religious fetish is to miss the essence of what he taught.
A meditation on the road, this tour traverses through four significant pilgrimage sites marking various epochs of Buddha’s life- Lumbini (birth place of Buddha), Kushinagar (death site of Buddha), Bodhgaya (where Buddha attained enlightenment) and Sarnath (Buddha’s first sermon).
Jan 1, 2017 · The phrase, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him,” is often used in Zen teachings, but it is a misunderstood adage. At first glance, this koan, a puzzle meant to radically shift one’s consciousness, seems crude, and non-spiritual, even.
Apr 30, 2024 · One day, while the Buddha was walking along the city’s carriage-road, the mahouts set Nālāgiri loose to charge at the Buddha. There must have been some distance between them, because people actually had time to react. The Buddha decided to stand still while the elephant charged at him.
Mar 28, 2023 · “While you are walking on the road, if you happen to meet the Buddha, you must kill him.” So reads one of the more enigmatic teachings in Zen Buddhism (attributed to Linji Yixuan (fl. ca. 850 CE) from a turbulent and most interesting period in Chinese history, if you want to do further reading.)
There is an old arcade game called Plump Plop and the first boss is a giant floating Buddha. Its a silly game where you have two characters (cat, pig or dog) holding a trampoline and bounce a third to pop balloons in the sky.
We might have heard the phrase “if you see the Buddha on the road, kill him”. This phrase is often misunderstood to slander the Buddha or the dharma. On one hand, it is important to identify attachments to views and objects.
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