Just so we don’t get too serious around here, I’m posting a little piece I wrote maybe twenty years ago.
The Meaning of Life
The Buddha was asked by one of his disciples about the meaning of life.
By way of response, the Buddha held up a flower.
“Do you mean to say,” exclaimed Rami Medran “that the meaning of life is a flower? Just a little flower?”
“The meaning of life is anything you chose,” responded the Buddha slowly, “If you like, the meaning of life is my fat ass.”
“Oh no, oh no,” gasped Suri Ba’an, “That cannot be.”
“OK,” drawled the Buddha, “the meaning of life is your fat ass. Or, if you like, a tiny flea that is crawling around your fat tooches, searching, poor thing, for his meaning of life.”
“Aah! The Buddha means to say that the meaning of life lies within the examination of life itself. The noble quest, the struggle of the mind to make sense of the maya of existence!’ countered Suri Ba’an.
“OK,” said the Buddha. “Let me put it this way. The real meaning of life is the line at the 7-Eleven convenience store.”
“What is this, sire? This 7-Eleven?” they asked.
“It’s a combination of two prime numbers together with too high prices. Don’t you get it, dudes? I’m only kidding.”
“Aaaaaaahhh,” they all sighed.
“Right. I was only kidding. The ultimate in meaning, the bottom line on the meaning thing is Jack Nicholson.”
The disciples then huddled under the Bodhi tree. Suri Ba’an was selected to present the Buddha with their collective decision.
“The disciples believe, sire, that you are definitely full of shit.”
“Don’t take it so hard,” said the Buddha.
Thanks for the smiles. 🙂
Life has no meaning, it only has purpose – the purpose is to live it. (If no-one has said that before, I just did!)
Amen
Ha! Fun post – thanks so very much for the chuckle!
Very welcome. Thanks for visiting
Thanks for citing me on your blog. Yesterday I received a citation from a police officer, and today a citation from Guapola! I’m on a roll.
funny one! 🙂
Ha…. the finger pointing to the moon with three pointing back.
David.
Guilty as charged
Reblogged this on jazfagan and commented:
Too funny Bumba
I lllllluuuuuuuuv it I had to share it on my FB and reblog of course!
Great. Glad you liked it.
I keep meaning to read your stories and seems you are always at the bottom of the list of bloggers I follow. If you make me laugh like I did at this post, I will move you up a notch or two. 🙂
Always glad to move up a notch
you are one funny blogger
Yeah, but looks aren’t everything
ha ha
This too I believe!
Some people will believe anything
I’ll buy that.
Actually, sounds a lot better than many of the other meanings I’ve heard of…
Well, I don’t know what you’ve been hearing…