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A Little Humor
So, to lighten the journey a bit, this page will reach toward those currents of humor that spring up from time to time in us, and in the world’s wisdom traditions. If you would like to share a bit of humor, either your own or things you have heard or read on your journey, just click here.
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?…How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?…And if I am compelled to take part in it, where is the manager? I would like to see him. Soren Kierkegaard
Shari R. Barr
The Dalai Lama, in a conversation with Arlo Guthrie Arlo: Why do you meditate all the time?" D.L.: "Well, there might be an afterlife and there might not be. So when I meditate, I put myself in that afterlife right now so that if I ever have to die, I won't even notice it. If there is no afterlife, OK, what the hell? It wasn't such a bad discipline anyway."
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there. Angelus Silesius
Nasrudin was a Sufi wise man and a fool, and many of the stories about him are both humorous, as well as carrying a deeper meaning. For instance, once a neighbor cam to Nasrudin and asked to borrow his donkey. Nasrudin didn’t trust this neighbor to bring it back when he would need it, so he said, “I’m sorry, it is already out on loan to a friend.” Just at that moment, the donkey brayed loudly in the stable. The neighbor complained, “But I can hear it braying over there!” Nasrudin pulled himself up to his full height, and said with a haughty dignity, “And just who are you going to believe—me, or a donkey?”
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent Of everything you do Is for yourself— And there isn't one. Wei Wu Wei
There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. H.L. Mencken
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As we think about the serious questions in
our lives, it is extremely important to nourish a connection
to our sense of humor. Without a little humor on the way, the
path can become too grim, too bleak, too heavy for traveling.
Many of the world’s wisdom traditions
cultivated humor in wonderful ways, not only for the sheer pleasure
of it, but as a valuable tool for teaching, for breaking seekers
out of their limited mindsets into broader vistas of understanding. 
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person,
is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a
vegetarian.
Copyright
2005 by David White |