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Future Bhikkhu
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I was wondering whether the historical Buddha made many jokes. Was he like Ajahn Brahm?

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I could tell you, but first you would have to learn Pali.
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:) Well your funny alan but what about the Buddha. What do you think?
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He did not joke around. There are some examples of humor in the texts but no examples of the Buddha making any nonsense immature jokes like those that so endear Ajahn Brahm to the public.
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When Ajahn tells a joke it makes one want to listen to him. Do you think it is such a bad thing for a senoir monk to joke around so much?

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When he tells a joke it makes me less inclined to listen.
If I want to laugh I'll tune in to Jon Stewart.
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I guess its' a matter of personal opinion.

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Future Bhikkhu wrote:I was wondering whether the historical Buddha made many jokes. Was he like Ajahn Brahm?

Thanks,

With metta,

:anjali:
I suggest you track down a copy of Richard Gombrich's excellent How Buddhism Began: the conditioned genesis of the early teachings
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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