The Buddha’s LaughForeign Desk · Letters to the Abbot from the Laughing Buddha

Morning WireTuesday, October 13, 2026
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Drawn at the desk each morning, with a pencil the monkey has not yet lost.

Cartoon. The startled Laughing Buddha stands at a kitchen counter while a wall screen draws a green face-recognition box around his head labelled MONK 98.6% and greets him, WELCOME BACK, MONK, 1 OF 6 HOUSEHOLD FACES RECOGNISED. The monkey peeks out from behind the screen. — October 13, 2026Recognised“Forty years trying to lose my sense of self, and the kitchen found it in two seconds.”