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“If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him” “Like they say in Zen, when you attain Satori, nothing is left for you in that moment than to have a good laugh.” –Alan Watts The title of this article is a koan attributed to a 1st century Zen Master named Linji Yixuan. It’s obviously not meant to be taken literally, since killing is wrong. It’s a koan with shock-value, meant to jar us awake, a tool meant for self-exploration and self-interrogation. In this article we will attempt to dissect this curious koan and try to bring some clarity to it so that we can use it as a tool toward our own self-development. The “road” is generally meant to symbolize the path to enlightenment. But it could also be interpreted as our own personal path, or even something as simple as the direction our life is going. The “Buddha” we meet on the path is our idealized image of perfection, whatever that might be. It’s our conception of what absolute enlightenment would look like. One could argue that the Buddha on the path is us, or at least our projection onto the world about what it means to be Buddha. But, and here’s the rub, whatever our conception of the Buddha is, it’s wrong! Like it says in the opening of the Tao Te Ching, “The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao.” What we’re “killing” is the idea that enlightenment is achievable. If we believe we have achieved enlightenment then we need to “kill” that belief and keep meditating. This is because there is no permanence. Permanence is an illusion. Everything is constantly changing. Even if we think we have all the answers, those “answers” must still be questioned. This is the urgency inherent within the koan. A true master “achieves” enlightenment, “kills” it, and then keeps meditating. He or she does so in order to keep learning, to keep enlightening. Indeed, to reinforce the journey truly being the thing. Every master knows that we are all Buddha disguised as the Self. We are all God in hiding. It’s just that some of us are playing the victim and some of us are free. Like Alan Watts asked, “Do you define yourself as a victim of the world, or as the world?” Most of us are walking tragedies, suffering in a cruel world. We all experience pain. We all have scars. But true masters flip the tables on tragedy and choose comedy instead, thus completely altering the power dynamic. They choose happiness without reason. They choose laughter and joy over anger and spite. They honor their scars rather than resent them. They choose dancing rather than depression. And this is precisely where the Fool and the Sage merge, where humor and wisdom coalesce. Up until the point we meet “Buddha on the road” we are victims of the world, but once we “kill” the Buddha we become the world. We become sacred clowns. We become holy fools, with the power to keep the journey going despite wounds or set-backs or even enlightenment itself! This is the wisdom of the Fool/Sage –to fail (or succeed), to let go, to have a good laugh, and then to start all over again with our wisdom in tow. “You must change in order to find your truest self,” writes Bradford Keeney in The Bushman’s Way of Tracking God. “And keep changing. The false idol is any form that hangs around too long and gets fossilized. It’s worth considering that if your ideas of God don’t change, then your ideas are dead. God is not dead. He simply went elsewhere because you were too boring.” Yes! God is us. Buddha is us. This sacred energy is hiding inside us because we have been too boring. We need to shake ourselves awake. The world is not a frozen thought, but a dynamic feeling, a heroic expression, a comic guffaw. Our bones are too serious inside us. Even our funny bone is serious. We need to loosen up. Let’s not be serious, let’s just be sincere. Shake up your bones. Unloosen the straightjacket that society has strapped around your soul. Let’s hone ourselves into instruments that are sharp enough to cut God. And then let’s have a healthy enough sense of humor to laugh about it afterwards… Imagine you are a clown walking down the path toward sacred clownhood. You encounter me standing on one leg. You approach me to get a better look. I am trickster-fabulous with my coyote-throat and crow-tongue, with my Thunderbird wings and smoking-mirror skin. I am whispering unspoken truths to power when you draw near. You ask me my name and I open my moon-eye, keeping my sun-eye closed. “I am Jester Guru,” I say, laughing and bouncing from foot to foot. “I am Slapstick Soothsayer. I am Wag & Sage. I am Blessed Buffoon. I am Charlatan Shaman. I am the Fool’s Philosopher. I am Prankster Pope. I am Mystic Muppet. I am Elder Funnyman. I AM THE HEYOKA WHO BEFUDDLES ALL HEYOKAS! I am the all singing all dancing Juggernaut Oracle, and I’m here to inform you that you have finally arrived.” What do you do?! Image Source: Blurred Path Travel Well Trickster Comments Isn’t explaining the koan going beyond the point of the koan? By doing so you rob the seeker of the experience of the pondering and the satori of solving it. Dance and laugh with you Amazing insight .. so grateful! I’d say: well met fellow trickster! Long have I been lost within this ever-changing hall of mirrors, and my heart trembles with excitement when I see another watching with the eyes laughing the laugh and dancing the dance of that which was never and can never Be lost. What do you want to achieve, and why? Where did you get the idea that there is something to achieved that you arent. Be thankful, thank you.
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"Ako ispunjavate Buddha na putu, Kill Him " "Kao što kažu u Zen, kad postići Satori, ništa nije prepušteno za vas u tom trenutku nego da imaju dobru smeh. "-Alan Watts Naslov ovog članka je koan pripisati 1st stoljeća Zen Master nazivom Linji Yixuan. To očigledno nije značilo da treba uzeti doslovno, jer ubijanje nije u redu. To je koan sa šok-vrijednosti, značilo da nas jar budan, alat namijenjen self-istraživanje i self-ispitivanje. U ovom članku ćemo pokušati secirati ovu radoznao koan i pokušati donijeti neke jasnoće na to, tako da ga možemo koristiti kao sredstvo prema našim samorazvoj. Na "putu" je uglavnom značilo da simboliziraju put ka prosvetljenju. Ali to može se tumačiti i kao naš lični put, ili čak nešto tako jednostavno kao pravac naš život ide. U "Buda" srećemo na putu je naš idealizovana sliku savršenstva, na bilo koji način. To je naša koncepcija onoga što apsolutno prosvjetljenje će izgledati. Moglo bi se reći da je Buda na putu je nama, ili barem naše projekcije na svijetu o tome šta znači biti Buddha. Ali, i ovdje je rub, god naša koncepcija Buddha je, to je u redu! Kao što piše u otvaranju Tao Te Ching, "Tao koji može biti imenovan nije vječni Tao." Ono što mi "ubija" je ideja koja prosvjetljenje je ostvarivo. Ako vjerujemo da smo postigli prosvjetljenje onda moramo "ubiti" to vjerovanje i zadržati Meditacija. To je zato što ne postoji stalnost. Stalnost je iluzija. Sve se stalno mijenja. Čak i ako mislimo da imamo sve odgovore, te "odgovore" mora uvijek biti dovedena u pitanje. Ovo je hitnost inherentna u koan. Pravi majstor "ostvaruje" prosvjetljenje, "Ubija" je, a zatim drži meditira. On ili ona to čini kako bi se držati učenja, zadržati prosvetljujuće. Zaista, da se pojača put zaista je stvar. Svaki majstor zna da smo svi Bude maskiran kao Self. Svi smo mi Bog u skrivanju. To je samo da su neki od nas igraju žrtve i neki od nas su slobodni. Kao Alan Watts pitao, "Da li definirati sebe kao žrtvu na svijetu, ili kao svijetu?"Većina nas hoda tragedije, patnje u surovom svetu. Mi smo svi iskustvo bola. Svi mi imamo ožiljke. Ali pravi majstori flip tabelama na tragedije i komedije odabrati umjesto, na taj način u potpunosti mijenjaju moć dinamičke. Oni biraju sreća bez razloga. Oni biraju smijeh i radost zbog ljutnje i uprkos. Oni ispunjavaju svoje ožiljke nego prezirem ih. Oni biraju ples umjesto depresije. A to je upravo gdje Fool i Sage spojiti, gdje humor i mudrost COALESCE. Do trenutku smo upoznati "Buddha na putu" mi smo žrtve svijeta, ali kada smo "ubiti" Bude mi postati svijeta. Mi smo postali sveti klovnovi. Mi postaju sveti budale, sa snagom da bi putovanje ide pored rane ili set-leđa ili čak prosvjetljenja sama! To je mudrost Fool / Sage-u ne (ili uspjeti), pustiti, da se dobro nasmejao, , a zatim u početi sve iznova s našim mudrosti u tow. "Morate promijeniti kako bi pronašli svoj najiskreniji sebe,"Piše Bradford Keeney u Bushman način za praćenje Boga. "I drži mijenja. Lažni idola je bilo koji oblik koji visi oko predugo i dobiva fosilizirane. To vrijedi s obzirom na to da li svoje ideje o Bogu ne mijenjaju, onda vaše ideje su mrtvi. Bog nije mrtav. On je jednostavno otišao negdje drugdje, jer ste bili previše dosadno. Bog je nama. Buddha je nama. Ovo sveto energija se krije u nama jer smo bili previše dosadno. Moramo trese se budan. Svijet nije smrznuto misao, već dinamičan osjećaj, herojski izraz, strip vriskati. Naše kosti su previše ozbiljni u nama. Čak i naš smiješno kost je ozbiljna. Moramo da se opustiš. Nemojmo biti ozbiljna, budimo iskreni. Shake up svoje kosti. Odvila ludacke da društvo je privezan oko duše. Hajde da bruse se na instrumente koji su dovoljno oštri da smanji Bogu. I onda ćemo imati dovoljno zdrav smisao za humor smijati nakon toga ... Zamislite da ste klovn hoda niz stazu ka sveto clownhood. Možete naići na mene stoji na jednoj nozi. Ti mi prići da bolje pogledam. Ja sam varalica-predivnih sa kojota-grlo i Crow-jezik, sa Thunderbird krila i pušenje-ogledalo kože. Ja sam šapuće neizgovorene istine na vlast kada crtate u blizini. Pitate me moje ime i ja otvorim moon-eye, držim sunce-oka zatvorena. “I am Jester Guru,"Ja kažem, smeje i poskakivanje s noge na nogu. "Ja sam Slapstick prorok. I am Wag & Mudrac. Ja sam Blažene Pajac. Ja sam šarlatan Shaman. Ja sam Fool je Filozof. Ja sam šaljivdžija Papa. Ja sam Mystic Mapet. Ja sam Elder komičar. JA SAM Heyoka WHO BEFUDDLES SVE HEYOKAS! Ja sam sve pjevanje svih ples Juggernaut Oracle, i ja sam tu da vas obavijestiti da ste konačno stigli. Čime se bavite?! Image Source: Mutnih Path Travel Pa Varalica Hvala ti puno: Komentari Isn’t explaining the koan going beyond the point of the koan? By doing so you rob the seeker of the experience of the pondering and the satori of solving it. Dance and laugh with you Amazing insight .. tako zahvalna! I’d say: well met fellow trickster! Long have I been lost within this ever-changing hall of mirrors, and my heart trembles with excitement when I see another watching with the eyes laughing the laugh and dancing the dance of that which was never and can never Be lost. What do you want to achieve, and why? Where did you get the idea that there is something to achieved that you arent. Be thankful, hvala.