There is a saying, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” This is 
concerned with our mind’s tendency to latch onto ideas and use them to fit our experience into preconceived shapes. Such as, for instance, the idea of how to become enlightened through emulating the life or practices of the Buddha. Since none of us is the Buddha, this won’t work. The only thing we can do is be with our direct experience in the moment, but even hearing…
[The writer was attacked by a cougar and is now in Burnaby General Hospital…]