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All the priests around the world have been trying to
make man serious, sad, sombre, a long face. They are all afraid of
laughter -- laughter is really dangerous, it is almost like a dynamite.
If the world, even for twenty-four hours decides that "We will laugh at
everything" (laughter) -- just twenty-four hours -- and all your
politicians will commit suicide, and all your priests will jump into the
ocean, and all your saints will hang themselves. Just within
twenty-four hours there will be such a great revolution in the world.
It will be such a deep cleansing phenomenon, it will clean all dirt.
But people have completely forgotten low to laugh; in fact they think to
laugh is profane: one has to be serious, when you enter the church even
if you are laughing, you become serious, you become stiff, you become
uptight. Church should be a place of dancing and singing, rejoicing. One should invite Jesus also to participate, and call god the father also, but "Have a little fun! Why you are hanging above the clouds so long? Come down!" But all the religious places have become sad. They are in the hands of ill people, sick people. Laughter is tremendously healthy. Playfulness is as sacred as any prayer or maybe more sacred than any prayer, because playfulness, laughter, singing, dancing, will relax you. And only the truth is possible in a relaxed state of being. When you are totally relaxed, in a state of let-go, the impossible starts happening, the miracle starts happening. Let-go is the secret of meditation. - Osho - Darshan Diaries, Nirvana now or never, chapter 15 |
