zondag 3 november 2013

Is boeddhistische humor leuk ?

Twee websites met een behoorlijke overlap aan grappen:
Sujato en Buddhist jokes

Eentje dan, één type grap: het indraaien van lampen:

How many vipassana meditators does it take to change a light bulb?
No need. Just note: ‘darkness, darkness, darkness’.


How many Abhidhamma scholars does it take to change a light bulb?
There are 20W light bulbs, 40W light bulbs, 80W light bulbs, 100W… 200W…
There are 6V light bulbs, 12V light bulbs, 120V light bulbs, 240V light bulbs…
There are incandescent bulbs, fluorescent bulbs…
There are clear light bulbs, pearled light bulbs, colored light bulbs…
There are screw-in light bulbs, bayonet light bulbs…
There are 20W light bulbs that are 6V, there are 20W light bulbs that are 12V… 120V… 240V…
There are 40W light bulbs that are 6V… 240V…
80W… 100W… 200W…
There are 20W light bulbs that are 6V incandescent…
There are 200W light bulbs that are 240V, florescent, coloured, and bayonet …


Q: How many Zen Buddhists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: An oak tree in the garden.


How many Buddhist monks does it take to change a lightbulb?
None….the lightbulb must change from within.


Tibetan Buddhists and the light bulb question:

How many Madhayamka scholars does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Four:
One to scew it in.
One to not screw it in.
One to both screw it in and not screw it in.
One too neither screw it in nor not screw it in.

How many Gelugpas does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Three:
2 to have a debate about the nature of light and 1 to twist the bulb

How many Sakyapas?
Two:
1 to write the instructions and the auto-commentary, 1 to twist the bulb

How many Kagyupas?
One:
But he has to spend years and years sealed in a cave first.

How many Nyingmapas?
One:
But he has to dig up the instructions to find out the bulb is already in.

How many Bonpos?
One:
But their bulbs screw in the other direction.


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