All statements of absolute fact are false ...
including this one.

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."

Killing the Buddha is a line taken from a story attributed to the ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi.
In the tale, Lin Chi is approached by an ecstatic monk who claims he has just encountered the Buddha himself while out on a leisurely stroll.
Implicit in the monk's holy paparazzi moment is the notion that he has simultaneously achieved complete enlightenment.

He's been authorized to skip the long, dull tunnel of religious practice and can proceed directly to the big payoff.
Lin Chi, unimpressed, waits a beat, smacks the monk flush across the face, then tosses him a red-hot coal of advice:

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."

Lin Chi's stinging admonition is meant to point out the dangers of thinking you have found
The Answer.
What appears to be Truth , whether in the guise of a sublime oasis or a fiery revelation, is likely nothing more than a mirage projected by your own murky thoughts and desires.