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Religion is a complicated joke. If you don't laugh at all you have missed the point; if you only laugh you have missed the point again. It is a very complicated joke. And the whole of life is a great cosmic joke. It is not a serious phenomenon -- take it seriously and you will go on missing it. It is understood only through laughter.
Have you not observed that man is the only animal who laughs? Aristotle says man is the rational animal. That may not be true -- because ants are very rational and bees are very rational. In fact, compared to ants, man looks almost irrational. And a computer is very rational -- compared to a computer, man is very irrational.
My definition of man is that man is the laughing animal. No computer laughs, no ant laughs, no bee laughs. If you come across a dog laughing you will be so scared! Or a buffalo suddenly laughs: you may have a heart attack. It is only man who can laugh, it is the highest peak of growth. And it is through laughter that you will reach to God -- because it is only through the highest that is in you that you can reach the ultimate. Laughter has to become the bridge.
Laugh your way to God. I don't say pray your way to God, I say laugh your way.to God. If you can laugh you will be able to love. If you can laugh you will be able to relax. Laughter relaxes like nothing else.

 

 Laughter time

 

1. A man went to visit an old married couple he had not seen for some time. The old housewife greeted him at the door and the man asked, "Hello Mabel, and how is Jack?"
"Ah, did not you hear?" said Mabel. "He died a little while ago."
"I am very sorry to hear that, Mabel," said the man. "Tell me, how did it happen?"
"Well," said Mabel, "he had gone into the garden to pick some vegetables for our dinner when he just collapsed and died."
"Good Lord," said the man, "that's simply terrible. What on earth did you do?"
"What could I do? I opened a tin of beef."

2. One night Mulla Nasrudin was sitting on one side of the fire and his wife on the other. Between them lay the cat and the dog, lazily blinking at the fire. The wife ventured this remark, 'Now dear, just you look at that cat and dog. See how peacefully and quietly they get along together. Why can't we do that?'
'That's all right,' said Nasrudin, 'but just you tie them together and see what will happen.'

3. The wife said to her politician husband at a buffet dinner, 'That's the third time you've gone back for more chicken. Doesn't that embarrass you?'
'No, dear,' replied the politician husband. 'I keep telling them I'm getting it for you!'

4. A judge asked a lady her age.
'Thirty,' she said.
'You've given that age for the last three years,' said the judge, looking up the record.
'Yes, I'm not one who says one thing today and another tomorrow,' replied the lady.

5. "My father," boasted Mulla Nasrudin in the train, "knew the year, the month and the hour he was going to die."
"Good gracious!" exclaimed one of the audience. "How did he know that?"
"THE JUDGE TOLD HIM," said Nasrudin.

6. She did not approve of smoking and when Mulla Nasrudin, the newcomer, got into the carriage and lit his pipe, she could not help letting him know.
"Do you know that my husband is sixty years of age and he never put a pipe in his mouth?"
"M'AM," said Nasrudin, "I AM SIXTY-FIVE AND I NEVER PUT IT ANYWHERE ELSE."

7. Mulla Nasrudin was worried by a vicious-looking dog.
"Don't be afraid of hi," the owner reassured. "you know the old proverb: A barking dog never bites."
"Yes," replied Mulla Nasrudin. "you know the proverb, I know the proverb, but does the dog know the proverb?"


“From Gibberish to Silence”

Today’s meditation “From Gibberish to Silence” will leave the mind more pure and fresh, it is one of the most scientific ways to clean our minds.
Forgetting about good old fashioned manners, “Imagine saying everything that you ever wanted to say and have not been able to say because of civilization, education, culture, society and conditioning.
And then saying it in any language that you have heard but you don’t know! For example, if you have heard Chinese but don’t know Chinese, say it in Chinese!
And the same goes for any language which you may have heard but you do not know.
So, shouting, laughing, crying, making noise, making gestures. Simply allow whatever comes to your mind without bothering about its rationality, reasonability, meaning or significance, just the way the birds are doing.
Saying anything that is moving in your mind, all kinds of rubbish – just throwing it out.
Do it totally, with great enthusiasm and sincerity.
The Method
Each stage lasting 5 minutes.
The first Stage:
Gibberish. Make nonsense sounds and speak any language you don’t know. You have total freedom to shout, scream, and express your feelings.
The second stage:
Laughing. Laugh totally, for no reason at all.
The third stage:
Cry and weep without any reason, to your heart’s content.
The last stage:
Lie down – be still and silent as if you are dead, only the breathing comes and goes.