If you’ve heard this one. A Buddhist walks up to a hotdog stand and says, make me one with everything. The Buddhist pays the vendor and asks for change. The vendor says, change comes from within.
It helps to know a little about Buddhist philosophy to understand the joke, and the joke itself provides a little insight into Buddhist philosophy. And that’s what Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein hope to accomplish with their new book, “Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar… Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes”. They’ve got a million of them. And they join us from member station WBUR in Boston.
