the Dalai Lama on farting, etc.

genkaku

Take away its 'Buddhist' trappings and eye-candy and I still think it makes very good common sense.

Hamsaka

It really does. By leaning to the side, one is respecting the upholstery provided by the airline, rather than letting fly straight downward and burning a hole into the seat.

The odor, thus released, provides local passengers an opportunity to experience naked reality without control tactics or judgment.

Better than both of the above is the Teaching of the fart on the Three Conditions of Existence; Impermanence (it arises, it decays, it ceases), Unsatisfactoriness (goddamn it smells like shit) and Anatta (it wasn't ME!)

Gassho

anataman

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