Should we "Kill the Buddha"? (Alan Watts)

It's shocking and figurative, not literal.

(Alan Watts) What a shocking thing for Theravada ears! But Mahayanists love to repeat it, even if they don't know quite what it means or why anyone ever said it. It's not literal. Kill no one. But there may be figurative value to it, as shocking as it sounds. Let's see if Alan Watts can translate and put back what usually "lost in translation" from Zen/Mahayana, with its strong Hindu/Taoist influences.