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Lighten up !
Vastmind
Memphis, TN Veteran
So this chill guy named Brian that I know says I should laugh.
About what?
Why?
Whats that have to do with being Buddhist?
He never tells me.
He must be too serious to give me any teachings about this important matter.
He likes to say things that sound like tick, though. That made me laugh.
He drinks bourban......( I bet he watches Cowboy movies)
Oh well....I'll see what this 'Vastmind' can dig up out of
the Buddha Bag.
Why Laughing is a serious teaching
H.W.L. Poonja was a jovial man who loved to laugh,
even while explaining that enlightenment means awakening to the
realization that your true nature is indistinguishable from the
indefinable source of the universe......emptiness.
"Poonjaji, why is your emptiness so much more fun
than mine?"
The Guru replied,
"My emptiness rejects nothing.
It includes,
stillness and activity,
and sorrow and joy,
laughter and tears."
And then he burst out laughing.
Sometimes just changing your face and your body language
can create more space in your mind.
Laughter is a real aid to bring about that spaciousness.
---Short story by James Baraz, meditation teacher, ODE mag. 2009
PRACTICE
*smile and laugh
*cultivate wholesome, happy emotions
*celebrate
*learn joy
About what?
Why?
Whats that have to do with being Buddhist?
He never tells me.
He must be too serious to give me any teachings about this important matter.
He likes to say things that sound like tick, though. That made me laugh.
He drinks bourban......( I bet he watches Cowboy movies)
Oh well....I'll see what this 'Vastmind' can dig up out of
the Buddha Bag.
Why Laughing is a serious teaching
H.W.L. Poonja was a jovial man who loved to laugh,
even while explaining that enlightenment means awakening to the
realization that your true nature is indistinguishable from the
indefinable source of the universe......emptiness.
"Poonjaji, why is your emptiness so much more fun
than mine?"
The Guru replied,
"My emptiness rejects nothing.
It includes,
stillness and activity,
and sorrow and joy,
laughter and tears."
And then he burst out laughing.
Sometimes just changing your face and your body language
can create more space in your mind.
Laughter is a real aid to bring about that spaciousness.
---Short story by James Baraz, meditation teacher, ODE mag. 2009
PRACTICE
*smile and laugh
*cultivate wholesome, happy emotions
*celebrate
*learn joy
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Comments
Being worried and depressed is bad for our health; I didn’t look it up, but I’m sure there’s a lot to find about that too.
Thank you , that was very good vastminds.
I laugh all the time...especially at my own stupidity.
Sounds like my transition from Type A to Type B personality. Everyday. haha
Work is extremly serious, so I have to practice on the way home.
Practice changing my intentions.
I love laughing. Sneezing is necessary.
In the first place? (you know I love my Buddha nature)
But... In reference to the OP....
I have seen you post much funnier material.
Your regularity speaks to your humor...I just havent figured
it out yet.
May you make me laugh for the benefit of myself and you.
zenff said : Being worried and depressed is bad for our health; I didn’t look it up, but I’m sure there’s a lot to find about that too.
I agree. It's bad for you and there's alot out there about it to find out.
Quick...tell me a joke, to lower my blood pressure !
When someone asks you a dumb question wouldn't you like to respond like this?.....
Yesterday I was buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for Athena the wonder dog at Wal-Mart and was about to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired, with little to do, on impulse, I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, and that I was starting the Purina Diet again.
Although I probably shouldn't, because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry and that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story.)
Horrified , she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no; I stepped off a curb to sniff an Irish Setter's ass and a car hit us both.
I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard!
WAL-MART won't let me shop there anymore.
Okay I do feel naked...maybe peed alittle from laughing.
lol
Thanks for the triage.
Where did I read this?
I forget....but I promise it's genuine....
a study group gave a number of people a new pen, and asked half of them to put them in their mouths, side-in, so that their mouths widened, to hold the pen across their mouths...
the other half had to put the end in, and they had to keep the pen in their mouths by biting on the end, and pursing their lips....
They then gave both groups the same 'something funny' to read, and those with their mouths widened, laughed on average three times as much as those whose mouths were pursed....
It would appear that even the position of the mouth is conducive and influential to how happy or mirthful a person is...
'fake it until you make it'....
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Merry, merry king of the bush is he,
Laugh, kookaburra laugh!
kookaburra gay your life shall be!
A. Because all of his friends were laughing at him.
Q. Why did the kookaburra laugh?
A. Cause it saw a wombat trying to be a koala.