Can you make me ONE with everything - Dalai Lama gets told a joke about himself

[beautifulthailand99]

This is good for a chuckle ...

[hookedondhamma]

I remember this.

Some people should stick to their jobs and not try to be comedians. Cheesy and tacky - kind of like those jokes from childhood jokebooks that make one groan.

I do enjoy how the dalai lama handled the situation though - that was both clever and funny.

[beautifulthailand99]

I remember this.

Some people should stick to their jobs and not try to be comedians. Cheesy and tacky - kind of like those jokes from childhood jokebooks that make one groan.

I do enjoy how the dalai lama handled the situation though - that was both clever and funny.

Yes as ever the Dalai Lama comes off very well as a wise enlightened one - his reply to whether you can make me one with everything is "theoretically possible" which is of course true but I imagine not likely in the case of the interviewer. But you never know. He should of known it is not possible for a Buddhist monk to go and order anything in any shop.

There was a follow up interview with the same interviewer some time later...and he even suggests that in the future there could be a female Dalai Lama - remarkable man.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/2013/06/14/09/13/stefanovic-revisits-pizza-joke-with-dalai-lama

Edited April 10, 2014 by beautifulthailand99

[Jawnie]

The reporter had no idea that he was out classed beyond his wildest imagination. Dork....

[beautifulthailand99]

If the Dalai Lama had had more time to unpack the proposition given buy the interviewer he might have suggested some of the same thoughts given by this monk.

[sabaijai]

I remember the joke differently.

What did Buddha say to the hotdog vendor? "Make me one with everything."

Later I heard a followup.

The Buddha finishes the hotdog and hands the vendor a hundred-dollar bill. The vendor puts it away, and smiles.

The Buddha asks, 'Where's my change?'

'Change must come from within', answers the hotdog vendor.

[beautifulthailand99]

I like this 'Zen' joke.

Breathe in. Breathe out.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Forget this .......and attaining Enlightenment
will be..... the least..... of your problems.

and

If there is no self,
then whose arthritis is this?