Dear Merle,
Since you like joy of humour, I like to put down what I received in
mail. You can laugh only when you know the story of “Ramayana” epic.
A small introduction – a small part of Ramayana
Hanuman is Monkey (god), a king of a small kingdom. He at once
recognize when Rama approached his Kingdom as god and started follow
him. Rama goes to srilanka to bring back his wife, who was abducted by
Ravana (Villain). On his way to Srilanka, Rama faces lot of troubles.
One such time Laxman (his younger brother) was bite by a snake, so
Rama orders Hanuman to bring medicinal herb to heal his brother. So
hanuman flew by and brought the whole mountain instead of one herb
since he could not identify which one is the right one.
Now you read this joke.
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After the war, Hanumanji submitted his Travel Allowance Bill for his
official tour for collecting Sanjeevani Booti to Ayodhya
administration.
The Auditor in Bill section raised 3 objections:
(1) Hanumanji did not take prior permission of the appropriate
authority (Bharat), the King of Ayodhya, during the relevant time for
his travel;
(2) Hanumanji being Grade-D officer was not entitled to air travel;
(3) Hanumanji was asked to bring Sanjeevani Booti, just a single
plant, but he carried a whole mountain (unauthorized excess baggage).
The Auditor returned the bill. King Ram could do nothing except mark
it down for re-examination.
A worried Laxman approached the Auditor and offered a bribe of 10% of
the T.A. Bill amount. The Auditor now wrote on the Bill:
Re-examined:
1. Even during the relevant time, Ram was the de-jure king through his Paduka.
2. Further in an emergency, non-entitled officers can be authorized
ex-post facto to fly.
3. Also excess baggage is justified as bringing a wrong plant would
have entailed multiple journeys with extra cost; hence bill may be
paid.
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Now please note a joke makes the ‘thinker’ out of your being
temporarily and you feel lightness and hence you say I am joyful.
Thinker is always logic, a joke is always start with logic and end
with non-logic, and hence it throws out the thinker, and the being is
feel burden less, which brings laughs.
But this process of separation of thinker from being is unconscious in
jokes. But practitioners of zen, need to make effort to separate the
thinker consciously from being and hence they need to be serious.
Only through serious look, the separation happens. Hence meditations are silent.
Once your Buddha nature is permanent, laughing or no laughing does not
matter, since you always feel lightness and joy.
So a Buddha can be laughing Buddha.
But until thinker is commanding your life, one needs to be serious.
Best wishes
Suresh
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J.Suresh
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