"If you see the Buddha, kill him!" - Buddhist Scholar Dr. Jan Willis Explains Meaning of Zen Saying
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- 👉 Join our Train a Happy Mind community for weekly guided meditations 🧘 😊 Start today! www.trainahapp... This ancient saying in the Zen tradition is among the more counterintuitive things you will hear - what does it mean?
What can this saying teach us about how we interact with life each day, whether we think of ourselves on the path to enlightenment or not?
Buddhist Scholar Dr. Jan Willis explains on our latest episode -
What is Enlightenment? | Dr. Jan Willis
In the rest of the episode, we explore questions like is enlightenment really possible for people like you and me? Do we lose ourselves when we become enlightened? Are there people on earth who are enlightened right now? Buddhist scholar Dr. Jan Willis answers these questions and more as we explore what enlightenment (or awakening) really means.
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Dr. Willis has a distinguished career as a scholar and teacher of Buddhism that spans fifty years. She first met Tibetan Buddhists in India and Nepal when she was nineteen and went on to earn degrees in Philosophy and Indic and Buddhist Studies from Cornell and Columbia Universities.
Dr. Willis has taught Buddhist Studies and Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz, the University of Virginia and Wesleyan University. Now in retirement, she teaches part-time at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia and leads workshops exploring race and racism through a Buddhist Lens.
In her academic and popular books and essays, Dr. Willis writes with moving precision on Tibetan Buddhism, the lives of Buddhist saints, women and Buddhism, and Buddhism and race. Her latest book is the compelling essay collection Dharma Matters: Women, Race, and Tantra. Dr. Willis’ unique personal story is captured in her memoir Dreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist-One Woman’s Spiritual Journey.
Very deep. I love this. Namaste🙏❤️
Love it....remain teachable n remember we know nothing n must keep growing 💓
Jan Willis you are wonderful!
Buddham Saranam Gachami 🙏🙏🙏
I always assumed it was for clearing your mind before meditation.
Great thanks🙏🙏
Thank you!
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howwwww do you kill a buddha? who sees one mutst go beyond: simply walk past.... go straight on, as it were....
thank you 🙂
Sherpa, killing the Buddha is important to ascend above, means, we simulate the knowledge and see the knowledge in meditation. It's the brahmagyan you achieved through scriptures and other gurus. So they simulate an imagery, the same with any god figures you idolise, even the same with muslims for Allah as still have a form to remember Allah in prayers if any. So kill all knowledge forms and its must because we never seem by these naked eyes directly in this life time. So any images are self produced and its a Maya. So ascend from it by killing it means seek beyond the formed Buddha. So the form disappears as we don't pay focus on the appeared Buddha. Saying neti neti. However having a Darsan is a good step but to improve it you must annihilate your knowledge and start from zero form and within. This doesn't mean go hurt Buddha's and do bad things at them for no reason. The same way we kill the I god delusion or any mayas by ascending or deepening beyond the given appearance of something or someone in meditation zen.
Don't get caught up in simulation as its not god you may see but our own mental projection or knowledge bias from videos and pictures. It then changes to divine light and deeper blowing mega light called enlightenment. Having the light inside literally. This is the first moksha sign of liberation if white transparent light is seen inside. There are two mokshas in between mind and consciousness and emptiness. You must stay away from emptiness as it leads to samadhi or death if not aimed. It means no more living. However the rebirth occurs until we resolve karma cycles and reach the state consciousness and emptiness. We have not lived under consciousnesses globally but under mind. So it has evils of worst kinds unlike the spiritual narcissism in consciousness field. Well it's ironic to say , a man who truly is under consciousness can not join mind realms with evils . So they are false consciousnesses created by knowledge bias as said earlier. They are never under or with it.
Kill Buddha is applicable in states between primordial consciousness and ordinary consciousness. It is applicable in kiling delusions of ones own. Study fallacious arguments and see how many of them we do. You can fix the logic brain so it amplifies the spiritual brain left and right hemispheres. This is why righteousness has a strong connection with logic reasoning and critical analysis. Without strong and true logic or intelligence, we can't be righteous universally, may be to a group or narcissistic oneself. Spirituality is full of those serious sinners , not sex offenders.