Zen Koan: If you meet the Buddha… || Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant

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00:00these are all Zen Buddhists and they are saying if you meet the Buddha kill the

00:04Buddha because you cannot meet someone you do not already know you just don't

00:12know Demelo can you meet Demelo you already know Sharmaji so suddenly when

00:16you happen to see him on the road you say Sharmaji so first of all you build up

00:21an image of the Buddha and then if you find someone corresponding to that image

00:26you declare that person to be Buddha the funny thing is often the other person

00:32also knows what particular image you have maintained of the Buddha in your mind so

00:38that makes it very easy for the other person to look act behave like the Buddha

00:45and when you will encounter that person you will immediately say today I met the

00:50Buddha the Zen masters they are saying the real one can never be

00:56known in other words truth is unknowable and if something that can be described

01:02is being touted as the truth just run away if you meet the Buddha kill the Buddha

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