..it was just a play on "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." ...
The quote is well known. It does however seem a little dated.
Only if one misunderstands what it means.
They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say, Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives for what seems to have become a forgotten word: honor. -The Last Samurai
My point was that there are an awful lot of people out there that don't, and misunderstand the words that are used to convey the message, and take things literally.
My point was that there are an awful lot of people out there that don't, and misunderstand the words that are used to convey the message.
Should we then fear the irrational to the point of maintaining silence?
They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say, Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives for what seems to have become a forgotten word: honor. -The Last Samurai
“Kill the Buddha,” says the old koan. “Kill Buddhism,” says Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, who argues that Buddhism’s philosophy, insight, and practices would benefit more people if they were not presented as a religion.
Just saying, that Sam Harris said it better than Lin Chi.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
For those who are not familiar with the Maitreya ...
The Dalai Lama, who believes the Maitreya who will emerge as a world leader and teacher also initiates thousands into the highest levels of Buddhism, fundamental to which is the Kalachakra-Tantra, which very specifically prophesizes that 25th Kalki king will emerge from Shambhala with a huge army to vanquish "Dark Forces" and usher in a worldwide thousand-year Golden Age. In other words it predicts yet another bloody war in which the ‘barbarians’ will be defeated. The original text describes the Buddhist war-methods as “merciless” and “cruel”. It says: “The supremely ferocious warriors will throw down the barbarian hordes” and “eliminate” (them). (Shri Kalachakra I. 163/165) [See The Dalai Lama]
They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say, Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives for what seems to have become a forgotten word: honor. -The Last Samurai
Post by stewartedwards on Jan 26, 2012 6:09:53 GMT 9.5
Woosh Wooosh
Or similar, as while the human ear could not pick it up, that is not to say that the sound of flesh slicing through the air back and fourth can not be heard by animals with different auditory sense levels eg dogs or cats. The sound could also probably be detected in terms of echo location of bats etc.
Just because humans are not sufficiently developed to hear things that other animals can, does not mean that there is no sound, only that we cant hear it. (think of a dog alarm repellant as an obvious example).
Just a thought.
A Simple Man, who tried and failed to reilluminate this planet.
Slogging Scotsman Ma’at Ankh Re
Who am I trying to kid for I can’t even resolve family darkness. Whoever is next to step up, please do.
If evil flowers bloom in the mind-ground, Five blossoms flower from the stem. Together they will create the karma of ignorance; Now the mind-ground is blown by the winds of karma.
If correct flowers bloom in the mind ground, Five blossoms flower from the stem. Together they practice the prajna wisdom; In the future this will be the enlightement of the Buddha.
-- Hui-neng (638-713) Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say, Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives for what seems to have become a forgotten word: honor. -The Last Samurai
The Buddha is considered to be the ninth Avatar of Vishnu, and the tenth is Kalki. I read somewhere that Islam was only to last for 1500 years and then it would be "finished' as a religion, and it seems to me that a similar "best-before' date was also postulated by Gautama- and oddly enough the given dates all converge on the present timeperiod, more or less, which should tell us something...
When Ramakrishna was a child, a common form of public entertainment was to have religious pandits gather in one place and hold a public debate upon a theological question. One time, when such a debate was going on, the pandits could come to no conclusion. Ramakrishna, who had been following the debate although he was only 10 or 12, stepped forward and asked "Can the problem not be solved in this fashion?'-and offered a simple solution to the question that none of the pandits had been able to resolve! All were gratified and astonished at the near-miraculous wisdom and insight displayed by this young boy, and several of the pandits took him on their laps and embraced him in delight.
For those who insist that Ramakrishna's followers contrived this story in imitation of the Biblical story of the boy Jesus, whose wisdom was also a cause of much astonishment to the priesthood in Jerusalem, the disciple who wrote the story was careful to point out that he himself had, in his youth, heard the story directly from the elders of Ramakrishna's remote country village, who had been there when it happened, and the disciple was also at pains to point out that no Christian missionary or Bible had ever made its way to, and thus had no influence over, this distant outlying area of India (seventy miles from Calcutta, with no railroad and the only transportation available to travellers was to take a oxcart, palanquin, or walk on one's own legs in the blazing Indian sun.).
The only progress Christianity ever made in India, in fact, was in the cities, mainly among the outcaste and the Anglo-Indian contingent. It was not until the very late 1800s, when Vivekananda did the unthinkable and "crossed the black water" to America, to attend the "World Conference of Religions" in Chicago, that this taboo was finally breached.
Prior to that any Indian who did so, 'lost caste" and effectively became an unclean "outcast" among his people in India. This is why the British 'created" thir own 'caste' of Anglo-Indians: because no "fullblood" Indian would consent to leave his country in their service.
Not if it claps on itself... fingers to palm.