Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious.
LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion.And out of this togetherness of polarities a balanced being is born. A man who is ecstatic is also a man who is centered. A man of laughter is also a man of tears - then a man is balanced. If you cannot weep and if you are not capable of tears, you will become incapable of laughter.
#OSHO QUOTE ON LIFE HOW TO#
In your very laughter your guilt, your wounds, disappear. If you can laugh at your own unconscious, the unconscious loses its force. Jokes have never been used as part of a spiritual transformation - I may be the first person! - but they can be used they are tremendously refreshing. I may be the first person who is using laughter as a meditation. Laughter has never been used as a meditation.It is almost like an earthquake! Each single cell of your body, each fiber dances in tune. Just as you throw a rock into a silent lake and ripples arise and they start moving towards the source, in the same way real laughter arises from your center and moves towards your circumference. When a real laughter happens - a belly laughter, as it is called - then it comes from your very core from your very center ripples start spreading towards your circumference. It is not a part of mind or of the heart. In a real deep laughter the mind disappears.Laughter in its purest form is a dance of all your energies. Have you ever seen a dead person serious? Impossible! Seriousness is worse than death. To be serious is not only not to be alive, it is worse than death.No other animal can laugh, it is only man it is only man who can laugh. Laughter is one of the most evolved phenomena in human life.