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stubborn rebel sheep!
I think a heck of a lot of Buddhist leaders in traditional Buddhist homelands, Japan, Burma, etc., to think of a few off the top of my head, have frequently advised acolytes with the traditional admonition "If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him." It's hardly obscure. It's a historical teaching point that predates any Amero-Britannic involvement with Buddhism.
Of course you seem to be more Tibetian oriented, it would seem. Perhaps they prefer the admonition to regard Buddha as if dried dung?
Being a buddhism practitionner (meditation) , over the years I've ask for explanations from few teachers and it also leaded to long discussions in the shanga with others practitionners.
It's only a figurative way to say : There is not definition or representation of a buddha that holds
The nature of Buddha is whithin us - nothing to search for
so when someone says : to be a buddha is or this is a buddha
Kill this illusion or misconception.
It's almost like saying : If you meet the freedom and the knowledge - Kill them!
(almost what we do , when out of the $cientology paedlar path of illusion)
* LRH didn't apparently study the true nature of a buddha while apparently being immersed in buddhism - he thaught he could fool the buddhist monks with telling them HE was the Buddha!
They must have been laughing IF they read Hymns of Asia.
Only MHO!
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