This saying hangs on the wall in the Kung Fu studio. Don't let it throw you off. This is not a statement of ultimate power. I imagine that many of you reading our blog are not Budists, but probably Christians, based on our list of followers. So lets rephase the quote.
If you meet Jesus on the road to enlightenment, kill him.
I wish I could have remembered this saying earlier on this week as I watched my pride swell up and take the best of me.
Paul would call it our flesh
The mystics call it our ego
As Richard Rohr puts it, "Ego is just another word for blindness."
In our journeys of life, enlightenment, sactification (whatever journey you prefer to be on), we must beware of our false self. When we come to the point in the road that we find ourselves "in the right", we have never been farther from the truth. If we view ourselves, and our opinions over others we have truely lost all meaning of being Christ-Like If we meet Jesus, if we become our own god, we must kill this idea. We cannot allow our ego, our flesh, our pride, to blind us into thinking we are more than we are.
I walked on this road this week, it is time to keep on walking.
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