I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

They’re on standbi

Renewed Interest in Kasina, Thanks to Ingram and Friends

Dan Ingram and friends have popularized the practice of fire kasina in recent times. For that I have incredible gratitude. Before Ingram's website https://firekasina.org/, there was virtually no good contemporary information on the internet about how to practice kasina meditation, nor any direct first-hand reports of the experiences of people who practice it. Speaking openly about practice instructions and experiences has been an incredible gift to the world.

Ingram and friends reference the Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga as their inspiration for fire kasina practice, two Buddhist commentary texts. When I read over these passages myself, I found myself confused. Part of this was because of the language being difficult to parse. It took me a while to realize a "disk" was a circle, as just one example. It definitely takes some interpretation.

Incongruent with Buddhaghosa?

But it was more than that. Ingram and friends' interpretation of watching a candle flame, then closing your eyes and looking at the afterimage, and then switching to "the murk" of closed-eye (pseudo)hallucinations seemed incongruent with the relevant passages in Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga.

Ingram et al's retreat reports are fascinating, bizarre, and inspiring, with tales of profound mystical visionary experiences and magickal happenings. What they are doing seems to work consistently, for many different practitioners, as least for those meditators on extended retreat.

Others practicing with a candle flame in daily life also reported great advances in concentration, more than with breath meditation. This is what initially inspired me to try it in the first place.

However, the further I went down this rabbit hole, the more I've become convinced that they are doing something rather different than Buddhaghosa was intending. There's no reason to only do what Buddhaghosa instructs of course, just because he wrote it. It's just that there might be another interesting avenue to explore here, in renewing kasina meditation as a living practice and not just a historical curiosity.

Kasina as Mental Imagery

After contemplating the relevant passages of the Visuddhimagga, my current view is that the kasina "learning sign" is a stable visualized (imagined) mental image (rather than a retinal afterimage), and **the "counterpart sign" is when

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

BamBOO!

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Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.