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[egypturnash]

My Wacom tablet is on its way back to me; it should be here Friday. Hooray. Apparantly the chip that holds its firmware up and died; the guy there said it's a relatively common reason for them to stop working, but couldn't tell me what might've caused it. They're sending a new one, because it's just not worth the effort involved in fixing them. Yay for cheap consumer products.


Future journal entry seed I toyed with on the bus: "In defense of elitism", my take on archives with strict entrance requirements, pro/amateur divisions, and the like.

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The elite are irrelavent..

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

..at best.

Buddha said, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." Which is best understood if you know that "Buddha", like the word "Christ" is a title, not a proper name. "Christ" means "The Messiah" and "Buddha" means "A person who has reached Complete Understanding of the reality of life and the universe."

Buddha's real name was Siddhartha, and he was prince from Nepal. Other people called him "Buddha", but he knew that to know anything was to know that you know nothing.

The idea behind killing the Buddha on the road is that the person you meet self-professes to be "the Buddha".

Achieving such a status is impossible; it exists only as a ideal goal to aspire to; part of that depth of understanding is that you are an ignorant, singular, struggling human being - just like everybody else. For somebody to claim otherwise shows a lack of real understanding of the nature of understanding. And for anybody to claim such profound status is not only ignorant and self-serving, but dangerous, reckless and not to be trusted, nor tolerated; for those are the kinds of people that will act upon their presumed "infallable certainty".

Which is to say...

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

...that I'm quite curious what your defense will be, when you present it.

[wolphyn.livejournal.com]

Very interested in reading it, here. :>

double-edged Buddha

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Seems to me that 'killing the Buddha,' if meant at all literally, really isn't very tolerant or enlightened. I'm sure there's more to it, but I can't help but feel that if one were supposedly closer to achieving Buddha-ness, one wouldn't go throwing stones.

As far as elitism goes, it has as much power as one is willing to give it. If tiny, regimented archives aren't your thing and you disagree with them, it seems that the best protest is not to pay them any mind. The more irked one gets at their rules and snobbishness, if present, the more power one gives to them to rankle.

Gee, all this discussion and the topic hasn't even arrived yet. :"D

-T'

Re: double-edged Buddha

[eselgeist.livejournal.com]

i agree; which is why i mentioned at the first that "the elite are irrelavent" :^)

and ignoring such self-profession from others is quite likely what killing The
Buddha means, not so much "throwing of stones", in the sense of confront
and accuse, as it is simply removing them from your concern.

but that kind of letting go of what bothers you isn't so easy to do :^P

i will try >_<

peggy is a tease!

Re: double-edged Buddha

[fourprint.livejournal.com]

I'd always taken it to mean someone -you- think is the Buddha. In other words, if you think you've met the person who is the be-all and end-all of enlightened existence -- look again. Or if you think you've found the ideal faith, belief, person, place, thing... question it.

In fact, there's a web site, killingthebuddha.com (http://www.killingthebuddha.com/), which is a sort of 'spirituality for people who hate religion' magazine. According to them: "Why kill the Buddha? Because the Buddha you meet is not the true Buddha, but an expression of your longing. If this Buddha is not killed he will only stand in your way."

But anyways. This is way off topic. Yay tablet!