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If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him - Ken Wilber

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Philosopher Ken Wilber on what it means to "kill the Buddha."

Check out all the previous parts of this interview with show notes at http://futurethinkers.org/113 and http://futurethinkers.org/112

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20 Comments

@umasiv7618 5 years ago (edited)

This is the beauty of Buddhism that you can say such things and no one is attacking you I think all religion of this world need same kind of broad mindedness.

@BrockLanders 5 years ago

I always believed that the meaning of the phrase was that there is no Buddha separate from you/your Buddha nature. Meeting Buddha on the road would imply a sense of duality and separation, which is simply an illusion, or Maya, which must be destroyed to see the truth.

@PeacefulWarriorSpirit 2 years ago (edited)

"I've known three buddhas in my life and they've all been cats." ~ Eckhart Tolle ❤

@ignorence 6 years ago

if you see white light, divine visions etc etc... it is ok but don't think your your path has come to an end. they are distractions when you begin to take the right direction.

@omeander 6 years ago

If you meet the Buddha at the Gas Pump -interview him/her or even better just use solar energy...

@brianl4129 4 years ago

Thank you, I'm new in my spiritual journey and a friend said this to me. So I had to find the meaning.

@dipink7142 5 years ago

Wish you the very best on your endeavour

@xthugniifcent_9695 6 years ago

Bc we things have outlined we believe things are separate but your awareness has no boundaries only in thinking that which awareness is not

@Orthodoxi 6 years ago

Sage wisdom in the post modern mind does not suit very well.

@Dan-pp8gi 6 years ago

x leads to the attempt to define the undefinable. the one that was, the one that is and the one who will always be.

@mauve1700 6 years ago (edited)

From the book - "If you meet the buddha on the road, Kill Him! | A modern pilgrimage through myth, legend zen & psychotherapy" by Sheldon kopp

Dr Kopp argues that there is no hidden meanings in life and that our lives have only the significance we give them. Thus killing the buddha on the road means destroying the nope that anything outside ourselves can be our master.

@devakikaren 3 years ago

That lady's blouse color in proximity to her red hair is truly stunning. Love this video. Thank you for posting.

@360.Tapestry 1 year ago

after meeting god, all i can say about him is that he is everything like and paradoxically nothing like what the modern church has portrayed - he is so much more - infinitely more - unimaginably more - even these words fail to convey how immensely huge his scope is

@verntoews6937 1 year ago

Irini Rockwell book The five wisdom temperaments.
Her Buddha is Hippocrates Phlegmatic ( Tim laHayes work)

@SuperMarkIsaac 6 years ago

Prajna or Gnosis is knowledge beyond the lower mind and lower emotional body. For more understandibg on Nagarjuna's Madyamika system of four way logic read the The End of Suffering by Russel Targ and JJ Hurtak.

@xthugniifcent_9695 6 years ago

In levels dimensions there are 12 and us in the 11th dimension are unified and therefore we believe we've been unified with god and I think this goes on forever thats why their are infinite numbers if reality bc the universe doesn't really know where it came from therefore endlessly creating alternate universes realities and dimensions