Laughter Is Inevitable When You See The Whole
Except for man, no animal is capable of laughter. So laughter shows a high peak in the evolution of life. If go out on the street and see a buffalo ghing, you will be scared to death. d if you report it, then nobody 1 believe that it can happen. It is possible. Why don't animals laugh? y can't trees laugh? There is a very deep cause for laughter. ly that animal can laugh which can bored. Animals and trees are not ed. Boredom is the symbol of hunity. Why aren't other animals bored? y does man alone suffer boredom? The higher the intelligence, the ater is boredom. The lower elligence is not bored so much. Laughter is needed for you to exist. nerwise,you will commit suicide. at is the mechanism of laughter and how does it happen? If i tell a joke, why do you laugh?If i tell a joke, expectation is created. Your mind starts searching for what the end will be. And you cannot conceive the end. A joke moves first, in a logical dimension. You can conceive it. If the joke goes on logically to the very end, it will cease to be a joke; there will be no laughter. So suddenly the joke takes a turn and becomes so illogical that you cannot conceive it. And when the joke takes a turn then the tension that was created in you, suddenly explodes. You relax. Laughter happens. Laughter is relaxation. But tension is first needed. A story tree creates expectation, suspense and tension. You start feeling the crescendo. Now the crescendo will come. Something is going to happen. Your backbone is straight like that of a yogi. You have no more thoughts in the mind. The whole being is just waiting. All the energy is moving towards the conclusion. Suddenly something happens which the mind could not think of. Something absurd happens-something illogical, irrational. The end is such that it was impossible for logic to think about it. And you explode. Thereare three types of laughter. The first is when you laugh at someone else. This is the meanest, the lowest. This is the violent, the aggressive, the insulting type Deep down, in this laughter, there is always a feeling of revenge. The second type of laughter is when you laugh at yourself. This is worth achieving. This is cultured. And this man is valuable who can laugh at himself. He has risen abovevulgarityHe has risen above lowly instincts hatred, aggression,violence. And the third is the last-the highest. This is not about anybody neither the other nor oneself. The this just cosmic. You laughat the whole situation as it is. The whole situatioras it is, is absurd-no purpose in the future, no beginning inthe beginninThe whole situation of existence is such that if you can see the whole such a great infinite vastness movintowards no fixed purpose, no goallaughter will arise. So much is going without leading anywhere; nobody ithere in the past to create it; nobody there in the end to finish it. Such is whole Cosmos-moving so beautifulso systematically, so rationally. If you can see this whole cosmos, then laughter is inevitable
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Laughter Is Inevitable When You See The Whole
Except for man, no animal is capable of laughter. So laughter shows a high peak in the evolution of life. If go out on the street and see a buffalo ghing, you will be scared to death. d if you report it, then nobody 1 believe that it can happen. It is possible. Why don't animals laugh? y can't trees laugh? There is a very deep cause for laughter. ly that animal can laugh which can bored. Animals and trees are not ed. Boredom is the symbol of hunity. Why aren't other animals bored? y does man alone suffer boredom? The higher the intelligence, the ater is boredom. The lower elligence is not bored so much. Laughter is needed for you to exist. nerwise,you will commit suicide. at is the mechanism of laughter and how does it happen? If i tell a joke, why do you laugh?If i tell a joke, expectation is created. Your mind starts searching for what the end will be. And you cannot conceive the end. A joke moves first, in a logical dimension. You can conceive it. If the joke goes on logically to the very end, it will cease to be a joke; there will be no laughter. So suddenly the joke takes a turn and becomes so illogical that you cannot conceive it. And when the joke takes a turn then the tension that was created in you, suddenly explodes. You relax. Laughter happens. Laughter is relaxation. But tension is first needed. A story tree creates expectation, suspense and tension. You start feeling the crescendo. Now the crescendo will come. Something is going to happen. Your backbone is straight like that of a yogi. You have no more thoughts in the mind. The whole being is just waiting. All the energy is moving towards the conclusion. Suddenly something happens which the mind could not think of. Something absurd happens-something illogical, irrational. The end is such that it was impossible for logic to think about it. And you explode. Thereare three types of laughter. The first is when you laugh at someone else. This is the meanest, the lowest. This is the violent, the aggressive, the insulting type Deep down, in this laughter, there is always a feeling of revenge. The second type of laughter is when you laugh at yourself. This is worth achieving. This is cultured. And this man is valuable who can laugh at himself. He has risen abovevulgarityHe has risen above lowly instincts hatred, aggression,violence. And the third is the last-the highest. This is not about anybody neither the other nor oneself. The this just cosmic. You laughat the whole situation as it is. The whole situatioras it is, is absurd-no purpose in the future, no beginning inthe beginninThe whole situation of existence is such that if you can see the whole such a great infinite vastness movintowards no fixed purpose, no goallaughter will arise. So much is going without leading anywhere; nobody ithere in the past to create it; nobody there in the end to finish it. Such is whole Cosmos-moving so beautifulso systematically, so rationally. If you can see this whole cosmos, then laughter is inevitable
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Osho kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Osho Speaking Tree, Times of India