Sense Beyond Sense
Here is an early Greek example; Diogenes ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
Then we have the Islamic Malamatiyya
http://www.chishti.ru/path-of-blame.htm
In America we have the Heyoka
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyoka
In Hinduism the Avadhuta
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadhuta
... and in Buddhism we have madmen or nyönpa
http://chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Tsangnyön_Heruka
YinYana
http://opcoa.st/0x8Cq
Pratyekabuddhas
http://opcoa.st/0x83n
ELIXIR IN THE PURE-LAND
A monk asked Zhaozhou, “What is that which is spiritual?”
The Master replied, “A puddle of piss in the Pure Land [of Amitabha Buddha].”
The monk said, “I ask you to reveal it to me.”
Zhaozhou said, “Don’t tempt me.”
“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
― Longchenpa
DEATH
When the family's dog died, a mother tried to gently break the news to her little 5-year-old daughter. “We can all be happy now that little Bo is up in heaven with God.” Replied the little girl: “But mom, what's God going to do with a dead dog?”
http://stottilien.com/2013/04/03/crazy-wisdom-the-archetype-of-the-fool-the-clown-the-jester-and-the-trickster/
Personally I find the sanctified is improved by the postscript, 'only joking'
For example:
The body of Christ ('only joking')
lā ʾilāha ʾillā-llāh, muḥammadun rasūlu-llāh
There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God. ('only joking')
I take refuge in the Buddha.
I take refuge in the Dharma.
I take refuge in the Sangha.
('only joking')
Here is an early Greek example; Diogenes ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
Then we have the Islamic Malamatiyya
http://www.chishti.ru/path-of-blame.htm
In America we have the Heyoka
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyoka
In Hinduism the Avadhuta
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avadhuta
... and in Buddhism we have madmen or nyönpa
http://chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Tsangnyön_Heruka
YinYana
http://opcoa.st/0x8Cq
Pratyekabuddhas
http://opcoa.st/0x83n
ELIXIR IN THE PURE-LAND
A monk asked Zhaozhou, “What is that which is spiritual?”
The Master replied, “A puddle of piss in the Pure Land [of Amitabha Buddha].”
The monk said, “I ask you to reveal it to me.”
Zhaozhou said, “Don’t tempt me.”
“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
― Longchenpa
DEATH
When the family's dog died, a mother tried to gently break the news to her little 5-year-old daughter. “We can all be happy now that little Bo is up in heaven with God.” Replied the little girl: “But mom, what's God going to do with a dead dog?”
http://stottilien.com/2013/04/03/crazy-wisdom-the-archetype-of-the-fool-the-clown-the-jester-and-the-trickster/
Personally I find the sanctified is improved by the postscript, 'only joking'
For example:
The body of Christ ('only joking')
lā ʾilāha ʾillā-llāh, muḥammadun rasūlu-llāh
There is no god but God. Muhammad is the messenger of God. ('only joking')
I take refuge in the Buddha.
I take refuge in the Dharma.
I take refuge in the Sangha.
('only joking')