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The kill the Buddha thing is a Zen
koan meant to mean to experience things first hand in presence and not to just
build castles in the air.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:50
PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Rory
Problem Redux
--- In [email protected],
"Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected],
"jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...>
>
wrote:
> >
> > Got it. I sometimes fail to see that an
upward direction assumes a
> > greater totality; a circle, not an
arrow.
>
> Yes! And everything You see/feel in me, You already
are, or you
> couldn't appreciate it at all. To even perceive
something, we have
to
> be resonating on its "level" or "frequency"
and so that which You
see,
> You are. Hence, beauty lying in the
eye of the beholder, the Other
> being a mirror of the Self, and so on.
Very nice Work. :-)
Of course, as you pointed out in your "kill the
Buddha" post, one
might also take the opposite tack -- the "neti neti"
path of absolute
denial, drawing the target around the arrow (Self) and
mercilessly
slaying all outside that circle, all that is not True, like
Krishna
and Arjuna wiping out the "relatives" on the battlefield. Either
way
works, the Unitive Path of "Love" or the Separative Path of "Hatred,"
so long as it is done with a whole
heart.
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