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From: root@hakuin.boeing.com (Jeffrey Jongeward)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: Re: Zen Humor? (a break from the serious)
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Date: 21 Jun 91 22:00:20 GMT
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In <1991Jun19.163322.13766@nas.nasa.gov> Tom Simmonds writes:
> 
> How many Zen Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb?
> 
> 
> What Buddhists?  What lightbulb?
> 

Well, this isn't really very funny because tho' it recognizes
form is emptyness, it ignores emptyness being form. :-) :-)

Seriously tho' (or maybe not) a few years ago someone posted
some 'AI Koans' to the network which were also pretty funny.
I don't have a machine version of these any more, but one of
'em was:

	A student, in hopes of understanding Lambda-nature
	came to Greenblatt.  As they spoke, a Multics system 
	hacker walked by.  "Is it true", asked the student,
	"That PL/1 has many of the same data types as Lisp"?
	Almost before the student had finished his question,
	Greenblatt shouted "FOO!", and hit the student with
	a stick.