The Times reviews Nisker performances<\/a>. They note, \u201chis performance, laced with songs that he has written, manages to make suffering a knee-slapper.\u201d \u00a0My thanks to Jeff Feinstein for sending the link to this story.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Studying Buddhism? \u00a0Here\u2019s an interesting story about the Buddhist tradition of \u00a0\u201cDana.\u201d \u00a0That tradition forced this American Buddhist, Wes Nisker, to eventually supplement his income with comedy. According to the NY Times, \u00a0Nisker grew up as a Jew in Nebraska. In the late 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s,he studied Buddhism and meditation in India, Myanmar, and Thailand. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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