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of its own. It is only for the eccentric people, only for the very intelligent. It is not for the mediocre, for the crowd. It is only for the individual who has the guts to stand up alone and listen to his own being without being bothered about what others are saying or believing or worshipping.
It is not an argument, it is not a belief. It is a pure experience, just like love or beauty or silence. It is anonymous.
Before we enter into Zen, although you are already standing on the door steps of the temple, I would like you to have a few laughs. Because I want you to enter into the temple laughing and dancing, joyous.
Ronald Reagan is in the hospital for a small operation and Nancy Reagan is standing there, watching every move the doctors make.
One of the doctors approaches Reagan with his syringe.
"What is that?" asks Nancy.
"This is an anaesthetic," replies the doctor. "After he gets this, he won't know a thing."
"Save your time, doc," snaps Nancy, "he does not know anything now."
Fagin Finkelstein, the lawyer, is leaning back in his armchair in the new office he has just opened. The door creaks open and a man comes in.
"Aha," thinks Fagin, "a client already! I must try and impress him."
Fagin picks up the phone and starts talking.
"No, I am extremely sorry, I am much too busy," he says into the phone. "I cannot possibly take your case. No, not even for a thousand dollars."
He sets down the phone and looks expectantly at the man who has just come in.
"And now," says Fagin, "how can I help you?"
"You can't," replies the man, "I just came in to connect your telephone."
Pope the Polack is seriously ill and Paddy, Seamus and Sean are drunk in the pub, discussing who will be the new pope.
"I know who the next pope will be," says Seamus, "it is going to be Cardinal Ratzoff from Russia."
"Rubbish," says Sean, "the next pope will be Cardinal Chong from China."
"It is going to be Ratzoff from Russia," insists Seamus.
"Not a chance," says Sean, "Cardinal Chong from China."
"Ratzoff!" shouts Seamus.
"Chong!" shouts Sean.
Paddy
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