humor

  • everything is a mess and it’s fine

    Yes, we are all in a mess, with suffering and despair everywhere-yet one lonely channel broadcasts the remarkable message that despite it all, everything is fine. In a web-series from a few years ago hosted by Jerry Seinfeld, the comedian Garry Shandling recalls telling a joke once to an audience of Buddhist monks, one of

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  • let’s live like nomads

    I love Buddhist humor. I especially love the way many Buddhist meditation masters find humorous ways to show us how uptight we can get. If you don’t have a sense of humor, you have no sense at all. I think of that menu and its message from time to time, as I struggle to keep

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