[Jokes] Buddist Monk Wisdom

[Tony McKenna]

Buddist Monk Wisdom
                                              by Kevin Berman
                                            (Bellmore, NY, USA)

I attended an "Introduction to Zen" weekend at a Buddist monastery.  It was 
a
beautiful site high in the Catskill mountains, the trees glorious in their 
fall
colors.  The stone building was wonderful, a former church listed on the
National Registry of Historic Places.

Dozens of us were in a large dining hall, waiting for our training to begin. 
  A
monk entered, ascended a few steps of a staircase next to a massive stone
fireplace, and turned to address us.  We waiting silently for our first 
words
from this wise and holy man.
He spoke.

"Does anybody have a green Subaru in the parking lot?  I think it's a 
Legacy.
You left your lights on."