Om Mani Padme Hum ~ 09
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 25 Dec 1987 pm |
| location | Gautam the Buddha Auditorium, Pune |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 29min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 30min. Quality: good. |
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| online text | find the PDF of this discourse |
| shorttitle | MANI09 |
- notes
- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- Question 1 from Vimal
- Beloved master, you have now been enlightened for almost thirty-six years. How does it feel to be beyond the beyond the beyond?
- P.S. can I meet you in the pub afterwards?
- Question 2 from Doctor Amrito
- Beloved master, has Jesus ever laughed?
- Irven N. Resnich reports on the controversy between philosophy and theology about laughter:
- Aristotle, in his second book of poetics, raised laughter to the standard of an art, whereas Christian theology has been against laughter since the days of the Bible. For monks, a life of penance does not allow laughter. Basilius Caesarea and Hugo of St. Victor totally condemned laughter; in some monasteries it was only tolerated if it did not spread.
- The question came up of whether laughter darkened the human nature of Jesus. According to Christian tradition, Jesus himself never laughed, although the philosophical traditions of Aristotle, Quintillian, Porphyry and Boethius, emphasize that laughter is a typically human ability. The clergymen gave various answers, but many of them pointed out that a lot of saints had never laughed either, and that Jesus, as a human being, was of course able to laugh, but he voluntarily renounced it. Not a theologically satisfying solution.
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