02 Jan Koan 32

“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” — Linji Yixuan

In the now, there is only one thing: the everything; though the everything is manifested as a seemingly infinite number of independent things. As every thing is interdependent, essentially one thing, thinking of things (like the Buddha) as independent is but an illusion. Illusionary things create duality (the thing and all that is not the thing). On the road to enlightenment, we need to vanquish all illusions and duality to realize the oneness of the everything.