@Plough The prophet, bodhisattva, shaman, wounded healer, katabatic hero, malamatī, Nīlakaṇṭha, all enter the poisoned center and return, if they return rightly, bearing medicine. The Word becomes pharmakon and pharmakos: medicine and scapegoat, exposing the lie by rising as truth.
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Copy of tweet here: A universal, trans-cultural insight, clearly: “My teaching is like the beating of a poison-smeared drum,” noted the 13c Chinese Zen master, Shiqi Zinyue. “That all who hear it, near and far, shall surely perish. But what about the deaf?”
@sentantiq Paracelsus also understood the role of the ‘pharmakon’, the composite of remedy, poison, and scapegoat. "Sola dosis facit venenum," he said. What distinguishes remedy from poison is dose. And so, in our doctoring, we proceed with caution. m.facebook.com/100002219988748/posts/2313818732035437/
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