During an Insight Dialogue Online session this week, the lovely Susie Clarion quoted someone saying A Sense of Humor might make a nice eleventh pāramī. I vote for Levity. :)
PS: If you’re not doing Insight Dialogue yet, why not give it a try?
PPS: In my iOS Pāli-English Dictionary, null results for both humor and levity. Telling.
Dharma PhD 
6 replies on “The Eleventh Pāramī”
Try giggle. https://suttacentral.net/search?query=giggle
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Also delight . . . and other synonyms. https://suttacentral.net/search?query=delight
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I sort of feel like the Buddha was telling a joke when he made this sutta.
Called The Adze. .. but the protagonist is a chicken. I always refer to it as the chicken sutta.
https://suttacentral.net/sn22.101/en/bodhi?reference=none&highlight=false
Almost saying…hey, a chicken can do it…why not give it a try…
Chickens can be funny.
does that count…
maybe not, sorry.
:-)
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