Thank you for your explanation. I appreciate you effort to clarify. A word of warning, though. 'kill' is not the Japanese word, it's an attempt at translation. I live in Japan, my children attend a Buddhist school. Kill is not in their world-view. Even killing a fly is generally considered bad in Buddhism.

Your quote 'kill him' might be better rendered as 'put him of your mind'. It's a struggle to unify these two modes of thinking.

I don't understand much chinese and the linked article has has a link to what claims be Japanese but is in fact Chinese, the keyword is inconclasm i.e. breaking the mainstream icoms or images.

While we're about it, disccusing this last night, the meaning of nirvana came up. Nirvana is simply the moment the candle is exstinguished. I think to most western thinkers, nirvana means heaven.