[soc.religion.eastern] Zen Humor?

simmonds@demon.siemens.com (Tom Simmonds) (06/19/91)

How many Zen Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb?



What Buddhists?  What lightbulb?
Push the 'n' key.
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dogen@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Chq) (06/21/91)

How many?  Five
One to change it, one not to change it.  One to change and not change it.
One to neither change nor not change it.  And one to....
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root@hakuin.boeing.com (Jeffrey Jongeward) (06/22/91)

In <1991Jun19.163322.13766@nas.nasa.gov> Tom Simmonds writes:
> 
> How many Zen Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb?
> 
> 
> What Buddhists?  What lightbulb?
> 

Well, this isn't really very funny because tho' it recognizes
form is emptyness, it ignores emptyness being form. :-) :-)

Seriously tho' (or maybe not) a few years ago someone posted
some 'AI Koans' to the network which were also pretty funny.
I don't have a machine version of these any more, but one of
'em was:

	A student, in hopes of understanding Lambda-nature
	came to Greenblatt.  As they spoke, a Multics system 
	hacker walked by.  "Is it true", asked the student,
	"That PL/1 has many of the same data types as Lisp"?
	Almost before the student had finished his question,
	Greenblatt shouted "FOO!", and hit the student with
	a stick.

travers@iwarp.intel.com (Jim Travers) (06/22/91)

A friend of mine sent this to me the other day
via local mail: (sorry if this has been posted already)

	Why did the zen monk go up to the hot dog vendor?


	Because he wanted the vendor to make him one with
	everything!