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Extinguish desire? What a joke. This fat man just wants a belly rub and a chortle.
  • Clearly your life is too complex

    Your Buddha is laughing because your life has gotten out of hand. You rely on too many mechanisms to prop up an unbalanced lifestyle. Remember the Zen saying: grind beans, boil water.

    Your Buddha is also disintegrating because you are, in your own way, following another Zen precept: If you meet the Buddha, kill him.