This video was randomly recommended to me and it's only 15 minutes long but it has it all, including a Buddhist Master who draws penises on the walls of temples.
@Tfmonkey reminds of that one story Alan watts told where he asked monks why they bow in front of Buddha status.
The monk answered you may spit we bow. In the sense that bowing was the monks way of disrespecting the idols.
I hope I remembered that right.
The monk answered you may spit we bow. In the sense that bowing was the monks way of disrespecting the idols.
I hope I remembered that right.
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@dioma No, it was a bit of a misunderstanding. There is a saying that if you see the Buddha, you should "kill the Buddha", because the Buddha is not separate from yourself, so any separate Buddha is a false Buddha.
The conversation was about why Buddhists bow to statues of Buddha if they're not supposed to respect a Buddha outside of themselves, and then the exchange took place.
There is another koan about "dropping ashes on the Buddha" I will tell you in the next comment.
