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2017.06.11 - Nam mô A di đà Phật
If you meet the Buddha
on the road
kill him
before
he sets
himself
on fire
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Nam mô A di đà Phật
- Bồ Tát Thích Quảng Đức
1963, June 11
Saigon
as recited during
his self-immolation
Nam mô A di đà Phật
in Vietnamese,
as in Japanese:
Namu Amida Butsu
In reverence to Amida Buddha
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"If you meet the Buddha,
kill the Buddha."
Linji Yixuan / Rinzai Gigen
- founder of the Linji school,
one of five Houses of Chinese Chan Buddhism,
extended to Japanese Zen Buddhism as the Rinzai school
Kill the Buddha
- perhaps one of the more (in)famous koans,
sprouted in fertile Oriental tradition,
widely misunderstood in Occidental circles.
Nothing special, really.
Merely a reminder
to keep paying attention,
to never really believe anything;
a useful tool to exercise one's state of mind,
to silence the analytical and favour the intuitive,
to puzzle those who claim to understand Zen
... or so it may seem.
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Đức - Wikipedia entry
Nianfo - Wikipedia entry
Amitabha - Wikipedia entry
a few more words
on Amitabha Buddha
and Shinran Buddhism
from Robert Anton Wilson
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apart from the sampled,
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2017 / / CCBYNCND4.0
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