When Did We Forget To Smile? ...
What happens to us as adults, wonders OSHO.
You Made Your Life A
Tragedy
You have turned life
into a tragedy...even when you laugh, you don’t laugh. Even when
you pretend to laugh, the laughter is just forced, manipulated, managed…all
purity is lost…and if you cannot laugh in a pure way, you are losing
your virginity, your purity, your innocence.
The First Lesson
Watch a small child;
watch his laughter - so profound, comes from the very centre. When a
child is born, the first social activity that the child learns - or
maybe it is not right to say ‘learns’, because he brings it
with himself, is smiling. By smiling, he becomes part of society. It
seems very natural, spontaneous. Other things come later - that is
his first spark of being in the world, when he smiles.
A Mother Smiles On
Seeing Her Child Smile
When a mother
sees her child smiling, she becomes tremendously happy - because that
smile shows that the child is going to live, love, be happy.
The mother is simply thrilled.
Laugh Through Life
Smiling is the first
social activity, and should remain the basic social activity. One
should go on laughing the whole of one’s life. If you can laugh in
all sorts of situations, you will become so capable of
encountering them - and that encounter will bring maturity to you. I am
not saying don’t weep. In fact, if you cannot laugh, you cannot
weep...
Laughing, Weeping,
Crying
Only a person who
laughs well can weep well. Only an alive man can laugh and weep and
cry. These are moods of your inner being, these are climates -
enriching. But, by and by, everybody forgets. That which was natural
in the beginning, becomes unnatural. You need somebody to tickle you
into laughter - only then you laugh. That’s why so many jokes exist
in the world...
Only A Joke Makes Us
Laugh
What I am trying to
show you is this: that we laugh only when there is some reason which
is forcing us to laugh. A joke is told, and you laugh - because a
joke creates a certain excitement in you. The whole mechanism of a
joke is: the story goes in one direction,and suddenly it takes a
turn; the turn is so sudden, that you could not have imagined it...it
takes a jump, a leap, a quantum leap, and that’s why it releases
so much laughter. It
is a subtle psychological way to tickle you.
Time To Tickle, Tickle
I have to tell jokes
because I am afraid - you are all religious people. You tend to be
serious. I have to tickle you sometimes so that you forget your
religiousness, all your
philosophies,
theories, systems, and you fall down to earth. I have to bring you
back to the earth again and again, otherwise you will tend to become
serious, more and more serious. And seriousness is a canceric growth.
Laughter Makes You
Strong
Laughter brings
strength. Now, even medical science says that laughter is one of the
most deep-going medicines nature has provided man with. If you can
laugh when you are ill, you will get your health back sooner. If you
cannot laugh, even if
you are healthy,
sooner or later, you will lose your health and you will become ill.
Laughter Is Meditation
Laughter brings some
energy from your inner source to your surface. Energy starts flowing,
follows laughter like a shadow. Have you watched it? When you really
laugh, for those few moments, you are in a deep meditative state.
Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together. They are
diametrically opposite: either you can laugh or you can think. If you
really laugh, thinking stops. If you are still thinking, laughter
will be just so-so, it will be just so-so, lagging behind. It will be
a crippled laughter.
A Beautiful Door Opens
When you really laugh,
suddenly the mind disappears. And the whole Zen methodology is how to
get into the no-mind - laughter is one of the beautiful doors to get
to it. As far as I know, dancing and laughter are the best, natural,
easily approachable doors… If you are possessed by laughter, thinking
stops. And if you know a few moments of no-mind, those glimpses
will promise you many more rewards that are going to come. You just
have to become more and more of the sort, of the quality, of no-mind.
More and more, thinking has to be dropped. Laughter can be a
beautiful introduction to a non-thinking state.
A Sudden Clash Of Thunder, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com.
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