i was wondering if its ok to have a good sense of humor in buddhism ? Becuase all the stuff that ive read about buddhism, it all sounds like a really negative outlook on life ? is that how buddhism actually is ? or is it different?
please help
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It targets the negative so you can do something about it. Humor is good.
Source(s): http://dragonsgatetemple.yolasite.com/morality.php
http://www.orgsites.com/ca/buddhism/index.html
Indeed it is ok to have a good sense of humor, in EVERYTHING, including Buddhism. Even His Holiness the Dalai Lama cracks jokes and he’s funny!
Don’t let your mind get sucked into the incorrect view of nihilism. Buddhism is the prescription for finding happiness and caring for other sentient beings with loving-kindness.
Start w/ the Four Noble (or Arya) Truths:
1. Everything is suffering.
2. The suffering is due to the causes and conditions which we perceive the world, usually quite incorrectly, and think that “stuff” causes, or gives us happiness. It doesn’t. All things are changing and impermanent and are going to make you upset at some point. (Think new paint job on a car and the cringe of horror when you see a shopping cart come a tiddling your way… that paint job isn’t going to last whether it’s a shopping cart, or a cat doing a slide, or a hailstorm, etc.)
3. There is a remedy to this madness, taught by the Buddha.
4. The remedy is the Eightfold Path… a lesson in virtuous deeds and what’s not. Then the teachings explain to you why the things labeled as “virtuous” and not, so that you may study that which is virtuous and let go of old habits and old ways of thinking… in a really good way.
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Source(s): Tibetan Buddhist
Zen Buddhism is about humor. Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.
This is what Osho says:
“When thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?… Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love – everything disappears. One starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight. So weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky. Zens greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you – the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.
Zen people love Buddha so tremendously that they can even play jokes upon him. It is out of great love; they are not afraid.”
Source(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otGQqO2TYMI
Once upon a time, a young monk was practicing the Zen path of enlightenment in a temple.
It was a very cold winter, and the temple had run out of fire wood.
The young monk, then took the statue of the Buddha from the temple alter, and used it to keep the fire burning so as to keep the place warm.
The elder monk was furious with the act of burning the Buddha statue, scolding the young monk for not respecting Buddha.
The young monk answered : “If the Buddha statue is real Buddha, then I am just trying to obtain the Pearl-like Sariras by burning it.”
Upon hearing the answer, the elder monk respectfully bowed to the young monk for his Zen understanding.
I think the opposite it true. It’s absolutely vital to have a sense of humor in Buddhism. You will often see very prestigious lamas teaching about death or dying and they will randomly laugh in the midst of talking about something so heavy. I’ve had my own teachers tell me to not take anything too seriously.
Just look at monks. They are the people who spend decades studying texts on a daily basis with smiles on their faces.
To me Buddhism isn’t negative. It just deals with topics that we usually don’t like to think about (death, ego, ‘self’, right vs. wrong).
Source(s): Buddhist
Letting go may seem like a loss.
But what you’re letting go of is the cause of suffering.
Look again.