Laughter Is A Symbol
Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.
The secret of the joke is that it brings you to a point where you are expecting, expecting, expecting that this is going to happen; then it never happens. And what happens is so sudden… and because you were expecting something you were coming to a tension, and then suddenly something else happens, and the tension has come to such a climax that it explodes. You are all laughter. It is a tremendous release, it is great meditation. If you can laugh totally, it will give you a moment of no-time, no-mind. Mind lives logically with expectations, laughter is something that comes from the beyond. Mind is always guessing what is going to happen, groping. And something happens which is absolutely contrary to its expectations: it simply stops for a moment.
And that is the moment when the mind stops, when laughter comes from your belly, a belly laugh. Your whole body goes into a spasm, it is orgasmic.
A good laugh is tremendously meditative.
Try to understand: only man, ONLY man, can laugh no other animal. It is possible only at the stage of man that laughter happens. If you come across a donkey laughing, you will go mad. Or a horse laughing then you will not be able to sleep again. Animals don’t laugh. They don’t have that much intelligence. For laughter, intelligence is needed the greater the intelligence, the deeper the laughter.
The laughter is a symbol that you are really human. If you cannot laugh, then you are below human. If you can laugh, you have become human. Laughter is a sure indication of humanity.
Laughter means you can become aware of the ridiculousness of things.
In fact, laughter
Is one of the greatest spiritual qualities.
In deep laughter the ego disappears
Just as in deep dance the ego disappears.
When you really have a belly laugh
You are no more there, only laughter is happening
You are not there as an observer
You are totally immersed in it.
And that gives you a taste of meditation.
