What the Dalai Lama and Patch Adams Have in Common

[Geoff-Allen]

What do the Dalai Lama and Patch Adams M.D. have in common? They both emphatically believe in the power of laughter to heal, energize, enable, and inspire. The Dalai Lama famously laughs at every opportunity and often cracks jokes at his teachings. Patch Adams spent his entire life using laughter to comfort — and even heal — the sick.

For the full article -

https://buddhaweekly.com/laughter-the-blissful-state-of-non-thinking/

Enjoy!

 

[sun rise]

One of my favorite poems from "I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz" is this one:

Laughter

What is laughter? What is laughter?
It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!
It is the sun poking its sweet head out
From behind a cloud
You have been carrying too long,
Veiling your eyes and heart.

It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure
That is your Real body- called Truth.

It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flight
To embrace everyone and everything in this world.

Laughter is the polestar
Held in the sky by our Beloved,
Who eternally says,

"Yes, dear ones, come this way,
Come this way toward Me and Love!

Come with your tender mouths moving
And your beautiful tongues conducting songs
And with your movements - your magic movements
Of hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!

Know that to God's Eye,
All movement is a Wondrous Language,
And Music - such exquisite, wild Music!"

O what is laughter, Hafiz?
What is this precious love and laughter
Budding in our hearts?

It is the glorious sound
Of a soul waking up!

 

[Nakosis]

What do the Dalai Lama and Patch Adams M.D. have in common? They both emphatically believe in the power of laughter to heal, energize, enable, and inspire. The Dalai Lama famously laughs at every opportunity and often cracks jokes at his teachings. Patch Adams spent his entire life using laughter to comfort — and even heal — the sick.

For the full article -

https://buddhaweekly.com/laughter-the-blissful-state-of-non-thinking/

Enjoy!

So then is conscious self awareness the state of suffering?

I know when I watch a movie, read a book, sometimes when I write, I lose my conscious self.

Otherwise, when I'm consciously aware, I feel pain, loss, the imperfections of self. I become a victim of conscious awareness?

Funny, the conscious self is who I am, isn't it? Yet I seem to spend a great deal of time trying to escape my conscious self. Entertainment, drugs, whatever will suspend conscious self awareness for a time.

I am no longer consciously aware of the self, but I somehow seem to still exist. When there is no self in the experiencing, there is only experiencing.

No self = no suffering?

 

[BSM1]

One of my grandmother's favorite sayings is that you might just as well laugh as to cry.