If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him!

Of course I neither met, nor did I even try to kill him. Mr. Gautama is dead. Since more than 2.5 thousand years. But since the last post, I also did not kill the ZEN master whom I did meet in the meantime. Quoting numerous scientific, medical, and statistical studies, he made a big point about the healthy effects of transcendence, love, and compassion.
Yes, our second nature is the social network of other human beings. No, I see no need to have these on the same level like daily exercise or healthy eating, i.e. as measure of medical prevention. But no doubt, I currently experience a state of medical extraordinary that makes me think about quintessences of life, such as transcendence, love, and compassion. Even to the point where I start to question most of my previous goals. Just recently, I saw a documentary on quite intelligent people who at some point in their life stopped working altogether. There was a medical doctor who decided that it is not the meaning of life to work each day to empty the waiting room of all ill people, to go home tired and in expectation of the next day's daily grind. I started a new job not half a year ago, I study for another academic degree, I still do a lot of things where I am not that sure whether, and how much, these are really necessary.
"If things are not necessary to do, it is necessary to not do them".
There are other things, where I do not even think about whether these are necessary. Like art (I had the chance to see the original above one year ago in Madrid. It is a lot of fun to see, and you have to be quite careful with your ankles if you try to re-enact the posture of the women to the right :D). These are just outside this category. Maybe this is the way to go. Maybe I need some life re-engineering or retrofitting - buzzwords of my professional career.

BTW, the image to the right shows the above mentioned ZEN master (to the left) with one of the first of this kind from the Western culture, an ordained Jesuit priest. I see no reason to kill one of them; of both, one can learn a lot.