THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12 The ...

322 THE DHAMMAPADA: THE WAY OF THE BUDDHA, VOL. 9-12
BELOVED MASTER, WHAT DO YOU CALL THE AMERICAN FEMALES?
Vivek, they are also ladies, but not in the British sense. English English has one meaning of ’ladies’; the
American English has another meaning. A lady is one who is a good lay but that is the American meaning!
The American hangman comes home.
”It’s terrible, darling,” he says to his wife. ”I’m going to change my profession.”
”Why?” asks the wife.
”I’m so fed up with seeing one hanging!”
”Me too,” says his wife. ”That’s why I’m going to divorce you.”
The American is the most alive person on the earth today. He is the most alive person for the simple reason
that ”American” is not a race, it is a mixture a mixture of all races. It is a meeting-place a meeting-place of
all the countries. America has become the richest country for the simple reason that crossbreeding brings out the
best in every child. Other races are small ponds breeding amongst themselves; it is as if you are breeding in your
own family. The smaller the race, the lower the standard of its intelligence becomes. That’s why it is prohibited
for brothers to marry their sisters for the simple reason that the child will be just dumb, he will not have any
salt. He will not be really a man, he will be more a banana or a tomato! He will not have any intelligence.
Intelligence comes through crossbreeding. And America is the most fortunate country in that way, because its
whole history is only of three hundred years and all the world has met there. It is the future of the world; that’s
how the whole world is going to be. All other countries should learn something; crossbreeding should become the
normal thing. Marry somebody as far away as possible from you. But people marry in just the opposite way.
They find somebody in the neighborhood, somebody of the same religion, of the same race, of the same color.
That is destroying humanity.
Now, you can ask animal breeders they have raised the quality of all kinds of animals. Ask the people who are
working on raising the quality of fruits and vegetables; they have raised the quality of fruits and vegetables for the
simple reason that they have used crossbreeding. But about man we are very unscientific and very superstitious.
In America all these superstitions have broken down. They had to because it was a new country and the whole
world converged there. People from every country, from Spain, from Portugal, from Italy, from France, from
Holland, from Poland, from England... from everywhere people gathered together there. A totally new kind of
human being has been born which is far more intelligent, far more healthy, lives longer, has tremendous capacities
for adventure, has courage. And it has created the richest country in the world.
An Indian, an Englishman and an American were walking in a cemetery. ”When you die, who would you like
to be placed alongside of?” asked the American of his buddies.
”Mahatma Gandhi,” said the Indian.
”Winston Churchill,” said the Englishman.
”Well,” said the American, ”I would like to be next to Raquel Welch.
”Wait a minute,” said the Indian, ”she ain’t dead yet!”
”I know,” said the American. ”But neither am I!”
Even small children in America are showing great insight, intelligence, far more than anywhere else.
Jimmy decided it was time to lecture his young son who was something of a screwball.
”Bob,” he said, ”you’re getting to be a young man now and I think you ought to take life more seriously. Just
think if I died suddenly, where would you be?”
”I would be here,” replied the kid. ”The question is, where would you be?”
The last question:
Question 6
BELOVED MASTER, SO THIS IS NOT THE NUT-HOUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS IT IS A ZOO! TODAY
A SPIDER, A CENTIPEDE, A MOUSE, A CAT (NOT TO MENTION THE MONKEYS ON THE ROOF),
YESTERDAY A PIG AND A COW, AND BEFORE THAT FISHES, FROGS, PRINCESSES.... ARE YOU
NOAH?
Premananda, you have stumbled upon a truth. I am Noah and this is Noah’s Ark!
You say, ”So this is not the nut-house I thought it was.”
There you are wrong. It IS a nut-house, but now you yourself have become one of the inmates! That’s why you
can’t see that it is a nut-house. No nut will see it as a nut-house. Of course, it is a zoo too. It is many things....
And you say, ”Today a spider, a centipede, a mouse, a cat (not to mention the monkeys on the roof)....”
There too you are wrong. They were not monkeys... they were American tourists on the way to Goa!
And you have mentioned a spider, a centipede, a mouse, a cat, monkeys, pig, cows, fishes, frogs, princesses...
you have forgotten ducks, so I will tell you a joke about ducks; otherwise many orange ducks will be angry at