I had a conversation recently with Gabriella Gupta who suggests that irreverence is next to godliness. It's certainly in line with the Buddhist admonition that "when you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." As severe as it sounds, it's simply a reminder that we hold no idolatrous images of reality, instead simply seeing it as it is. When we simply see things as they are, we don't need reverence to see the beauty of the infinite. We don't need to pitch tents to preserve the eternal.
