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The Cosmic Joke, with Kenneth Folk

Deconstructing Yourself

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Bahia, the Best Student in the History of the World, Dies.

Bahia had a highly refined sense of impermanence. He finally pesters the Buddha enough that the Buddha caves in and says, all right, I'll give you a quick and dirty teaching but I'm much time. So he gets it coincidentally or not. Bahia does die that day. Not only the best student, but the unlucky assistant with the best timing. It's a bad day. And when the Buddha finds out about it, he instructs his monks, the other aarachats, to bury Bahia with special honors - one of their peers.

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