The Buddha offered another dramatic image to illustrate this: “A dangerous murderer was captured and brought before the king, and the king sentenced him to death by stabbing. ‘Take him to the courtyard and plunge three hundred sharp knives through him.’ At noon a guard reported, ‘Majesty, he is still alive,’ and the king declared, ‘Stab him three hundred more times!’ In the evening, the guard again told the king, ‘Majesty, he is not yet dead.’ So the king gave the third order: ‘Plunge the three hundred sharpest knives in the kingdom through him.
Buddha, buddy, I know that this is some kind of parable about always keeping your knives sharp, but, you worry me.
Most people would go with the analogy of cutting a delicate vegetable, like a tomato, but here you are, wrapped up in your fantasies about being unable to stab a dangerous murderer to death. No matter how hard you try, you just cannot complete it.
It's all impotence and rage with you sometimes.
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Jeff
