Seriously.....
Osho on humor
The sense of humor should be directed towards oneself.
It is a very great thing to laugh at oneself and he who can
laugh at himself gradually becomes full of concern and
compassion for others.
In the entire world no event, no subject invites laughter like
oneself.
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I use laughter as a device to wake you up.
If you can laugh rightly, in the right moment, it will bring you
out of unconsciousness, into the open sky, from the darkness
to the light.
I am introducing laughter as a meditation because nothing
makes you so total as laughter; nothing makes you stop your
thinking as laughter does.
Just for a moment you are no more a mind.
Just for a moment you are no more in time.
Just for a moment you have entered into another space
where you are total and whole and healed.
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Have you ever heard the giggle of a small child? His whole
body participates in it. But when you laugh, it is very rare that
your whole body laughs.
It is just an intellectual, heady thing.
My own understanding is that laughter is far more important
than prayer, because prayer will not relax you. On the contrary,
it may make you more tense.
In laughter you suddenly forget all your conditioning, all your
training, all seriousness.
Suddenly you are out of it, just more a moment.
Next time you laugh, be alert how relaxed you are.
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Laughter is a mystery.
It is better to experience it than to hear someone talk about it.
But one becomes curious, "What is laughter?"
Laughter is the most intelligent factor in you.
Buffaloes don't laugh, no animal laughs.
Laughter needs a very sensitive intelligence. It means that
you can understand the ridiculousness of a certain situation.
And what are jokes? They are a very clever arrangement.
They take you in a direction logically and rationally. You start
expecting this is going to happen...this is going to
happen...and it goes on happening according to your
expectations.
Then comes a sudden turn and something happens that you
never could have imagined!
That brings laughter to you.
It is a very internal process of your rational expectation.
If what you were expecting happens, there will be no laugh.
But if something happens that you could not have conceived
and everything was going well up to that point, suddenly you
forget all your reason, logic, mind....
Laughter is the only ordinary experience available to you
where you are no longer a mind, and I use it to give you
glimpses of meditation, no-mind.
