Can you make me one with everything?

[VictorB]

Here's a hilarous video of the Dalai Lama being told a joke. It's funny how he fails to get the framing, which makes it absolutely impossible to go on with the joke. Can you guess what the narrator means at the very beginning that the Dalai Lama intially can't make heads or tails of, then misiterpets?

And for those who happened to miss this old joke, here's the missing part of it

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After a brief chuckle at the monks joke the vendor hands him his pizza with everything and says, "'That'll be $5 please."
The monk hands over a $10 bill and waits whilst the vendor just stares back at him. Then, awkwardly, the monk asks, "What about my change?"
"Ah," replies the pizza vendor, "Change must come from within."

[Juliemiracle]

VictorB,
when I read the topic, I immediately thought about ice cream flavours :)
Do I get it write that he didn't understand that 'with everything' meant with every topping imaginable?

[Yety]

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ONE with the universe

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30. (Philosophy) the one (in Neo-Platonic philosophy) the ultimate being
31. (Theology) the Holy One the One above God

[VictorB]

Do I get it right that he didn't understand that 'with everything' meant with every topping imaginable?

LOL!
Juliemiracle, for chrissake, of course you nailed it from scratch,
and who could have thought you wouldn't - of all people, not me! :-)

[Juliemiracle]

VictorB,
well, I doubted. I started searching for some double meaning, maybe sth spiritual which I didn't catch on :)

[GlebNoNePyanykh]

Do I get it write that he didn't understand that 'with everything' meant with every topping imaginable?

Everything means everything. The punchline in the joke is "Change must come from within."

[VictorB]

well, I doubted

Juliemiracle, and so did I when several years ago I first met with it on the ELL stackexchage site.
So to me, it had been quite an old joke, which I have posted here just to enliven, kind of, this somewhat...moribund site :)

[Juliemiracle]

VictorB,
did you read the extended version? :)
https://jokojokes.com/buddhist-monks-jokes.html

[VictorB]

https://jokojokes.com/buddhist-monks-jokes.html

Juliemiracle, thanks for the link, and if you like reading jokes, here's the link I think I should reciprocate with:
https://www.keeplaughingforever.com/

[Yety]

“Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."

[VictorB]

“...fruit flies like a banana."

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