Back in the early seventies, Sheldon B. Kopp wrote a book called, “If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!” You could perhaps stop reading at the book’s cover to uncover one of the most important shifts one can make to eliminate gobs of unnecessary suffering. The premise here is that if you’ve made someone, outside of yourself, more pivotal than you in your quest to realize fulfillment — well then, they should be eliminated because they are an impostor. Our Buddhahood, if you will, is within and any validation that we seek from the external world, is an illusion.

Are you defined by who you are in the eyes of others and is this because you perceive them as having something you don’t? We whither from this perspective of lack and we can find freedom in exploring who we are without our tenuous connection to outside influence or, in many cases, affluence.

So if all we seek is already within us, how can we start to bring this truth forth? Well, perhaps a good starting place would be to un-deify those whom we’ve over-bloated to buddha proportions and re-relate to them as they truly are — flawed folks struggling to find meaning just like us.

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