Kill The Buddha

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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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