Humor
- Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.
- They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence.
- Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.
- Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.
- When you laugh at the world the world dissolves.
- In Zen you practice zazen, mindfulness and other forms of introspection to find out who you are and what you want, to balance your spirit, develop willpower, increase your sense of humor and gain wisdom.
- You must be accommodating with your teacher. You must have a sense of humor about your teacher and the impossible things they ask you to do.
- Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy and possessiveness.
- Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.
- As you meditate, you'll develop a sense of humor so that you can laugh at yourself, which you need to do in this world.
- In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.
- The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.
- The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.
- I don't think it's possible to be funny if there is anything you still want or anything that you're afraid of. You're humor will be incomplete.
- Keep your sense of humor. Stay funny.