That evening at the dinner table, he told a group of friends a piece of Buddhist black humor, "This morning we saw fish eating people and now we're seeing people eating fish."
呂正宗對於生死看得很開。有一回打撈水難遺體後，大夥晚餐吃魚，呂正宗還語帶禪機地說：「早上看到魚吃人，晚上看到人吃魚哪！」