Stories for needing a laugh about death
3 Buddhist wisdom stories for needing a laugh about death from Buddhist teachers, each linked to the original talk.
- Dying peacefully like Dad (the bus-driver joke)Joke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: A comedian wants to die peacefully in his sleep like his father — unlike the screaming passengers on the bus his father was driving.
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He said, "When I die, I want to die in my sleep just like my father. He died in his sleep. Not like the passengers in the bus he was driving at the time, screaming and shouting."
- The hearse in the carpool laneJoke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Stopped by police for driving a hearse alone in a two-or-more lane in New York or San Francisco, a driver argues in court that the man in the back makes two — and loses.
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Or the other guy. They install this was in New York or San Francisco somewhere You know they have these these lanes for two or more people You know so you know the because so many people drive their cars only a single person in the car And that's what causes also traffic and so some jurisdictions. They have lanes especially two or more people and Then policeman stopped a funeral hearse there's only one driver in there and the actually the driver took the police to court he Said well, I had the guy in the back that makes two Whom he lost his case some judges don't have a sense of humor
- The penguin funeral (“Freeze a jolly good fellow”)Joke · Ajahn Brahm
In brief: Penguins grieve a dead friend, bury him in the ice and sing at the ceremony: “Freeze a jolly good fellow.”
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even Penguins they have this beautiful sense of social cohesion and they have their own ceremonies when one of their members dies and apparently what happened is this penguin died and as soon as it died all its friends came around it to grieve but then after grieving for a little while they actually dug a hole in the snow in the ice and they put the dead penguin in the snow in the ice and they covered him over with the freezing ice and then afterwards they did a little ceremony for for the dead penguin their friend they sang a song free the jolly good fellow