Sense of Humor

[JohnsonCM]

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[AlanLa]

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I hear those Buddha Patches are on sale during Ango.

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[Heisoku]

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Try this:

http://www.do-not-zzz.com/index2.html

:mrgreen:

[Nenka]

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A little kinhin humor, anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO8N75uJiCA[/video]]

[Jundo]

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A little kinhin humor, anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO8N75uJiCA[/video]]

It looks like there are a few from these same folks ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8muy8XHN52I&feature=related[/video]]

... re=related

I guess this is 'sitting with one's own demons'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCdUxFd462I[/video]]

[kfrance0]

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Pardon my muse: Did the Buddha have a sense of humor? Seriously. Is there any evidence in all his words that people later recalled of him ever telling a joke? Ok, I'm gonna guess no on that. But maybe he showed other forms of humoristic sense. The historical Buddha and sense of humor just don't seem to fit for me, although I completely agree about the need and usefullness of having a sense of humor, but if you are so perfectly enlightened do you need a sense of humor anymore? Maybe once you can see through all the jokes there's no point in humor anymore. And if you realize it is all one big joke, is there any point in laughing?

I always thought the whole holding-up-a-flower thing was a bit of a private joke between the Buddha and his disciple. Mahakasyapa "got" it, and a legend was born.

[AlanLa]

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[Taigu]

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A good sense of humor is so important. Particularly when you die.
And we are all dying now.

Humor?
No doubt. But joke at yourself. For humor can also be self dreesed in pleasant rags.
So I try to always laugh at myself as much as I can. Not too difficult really.


gassho


Taigu

[Shokai]

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My underwear may not be more holey than righteous but, I think you may find there is more truth than poetry in these zen comics: http://www.buddhanet.net/flash/book-of-zen/index.html

gassho,

[Nenka]

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Saw this one today. :roll:

A monk on his journey home came to the banks of a wide river. Staring hopelessly at the great obstacle in front of him, he pondered for hours on just how to cross such a wide barrier.

Just as he was about to give up his journey, he saw a great teacher on the other side of the river.

The monk yells over to the teacher. “Oh master, can you tell me how to get to the other side of this river?”

The teacher ponders for a moment, looks up and down the river and yells back. “You already are on the other side.”

[AlanLa]

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Nice!

[AlanLa]

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From "Wizard of Id" the other day

[Nenka]

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Some Ha-Ha! moments here:

http://www.buddhisthumor.org/index.html

[ezzirah]

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I always thought the essential nature of the Buddha was happy. Thanks for the laugh everyone, these are great! :lol:

[AlanLa]

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Reviving an old thread.

The following could go in the zen and sports thread as well as here: