Ever heard of the Dalai Lama joke? It goes like this: So the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop, and says, 'can you make me one with everything.' Australian 'Today' show host Karl Stefanovic decides to tell this joke to the Dalai Lama himself. It appears that His Holiness can take a joke, but not necessarily get one.
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So Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop and says "Make me one with everything".
"Fine, that'll be $15.20."
Dalai Lama hands him a $20 bill, gets the pizza, but the clerk doesn't give him the change.
"Hey, where's my change?"
"Change comes from within."
"Being one with everything" is a concept of Zen Buddhism, not Tibetan Buddhism. No wonder the Dalai Lama didn't get the joke.
It also has to do with his grasp of English -which is very good, but maybe not enough for the ability to get jokes like that.
Because even though he is a Tibetan Buddhist, not a Zen Buddhist, I'm sure he is intelligent enough to know what Zen Buddhism is.
As an Aussie, I'd like to say that people like Karl Stefanovic (the 'reporter' in the video) make me feel embarrassed to be Australian.
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