What
Does Your Laughter Say About You?
“But your mirth is diseased and unnatural. You cannot even laugh unless someone cracks a
dirty joke; it requires filth and dirt.
Most jokes are about sex, which everyone can enjoy because they are
dirty and debasing.”
“A man has to slip on a banana peel in
order for you to laugh. Where kindness
is needed, you laugh and joke. Your
humor is sick, diseased. A man who has
fallen needs help. Give him help! How him help!
How is it an occasion for laughter?
Deep within you, you desire to lower and abuse everyone else. The more you want to see a person fall, the
greater your mirth. For example, if a
beggar falls you won’t laugh so much; but if Indira Gandhi falls you’ll be
unable to control your laughter. What is
there to laugh about a beggar falling?
He was already fallen. But there
is an unconscious desire in you to knock Indira down. That would be hilarious to you. If a servant falls no one laughs so much if
the master falls it is an occasion for mirth.”
“Your unconscious hostility is
contained within your laughter. Your
laughter is a poison, your mirth but sarcasm – a sneer. The difference between mirth and sarcasm is
the bitterness, the sting to it. It has
thorns without flowers.”
“The saint also laughs. His laughter carries no sting, no thorns, he
laughs mainly at himself for he is aware of his own state. When he laughs at you, then he is also
laughing at himself, for he sees a glimpse of himself in you. When he sees a man fall, he sees humanity falling
– not just a man. He knows that man is
helpless and that his arrogance is thus ridiculous.”
“How well this man was dressed: tie,
coat and whatnot, but a little peel of banana and he is flat on the ground –
tie and all! A banana peel pulled a joke
on him.”
“The saint sees man’s helplessness
behind this fall: how weak he is and yet so proud! He had a Himalayan ego, but he is brought
down by a lowly banana peel. He struts
about with the idea of defeating God, but he is shamefully defeated by a banana
peel. So, is a saint laughs when a man
falls, he is laughing at his state of helplessness. He laughs at the thought of his own
helplessness., and is filled with shame.
He never laughs to revile or beat someone else. Within him is the bliss which overflows into
mirth and merriment.” – Osho “The True Name” pg. 453
Such wisdom from Osho, even when we
laugh, it is not necessarily a good laugh, we could be laughing with a bad
heart and when we laugh with a bad heart, it says a lot about us and who we
are. When we notice this, we must make a
change, it is not always good to laugh at others. For example, with this whole thing happening
with the racist fraternity chant on the bus, if you thought that video was
funny, there is something wrong within you, that is a sign of racism in your
heart.
Even in the movie “Rush Hour” with
Chris Rock and Jackie Chan, when Chris Rock was poking fun at Jackie Chan and
trashing on his race and culture, many found that to be very funny, but that
laughter is a sign of a racist heart. A
lot of what we find to be “funny” many times tells us about the flaws that we
have within, a lot of times we are laughing because we see others in
misery. Laughter is healthy and good for
our spirits, but it has to be the right type of laughter, positive
laughter.
I used to laugh at the movie Rush Hour but now the way I see it: two fools are just playing according to what a white director want, and you know what a white supremacist movie director want? He wants two minorities make a fool out of themselves. There cannot be anything positive he would want out of the minorities. The white supremacist want nothing else but seeing the minorities slip on banana peel so that he could laugh. That brings him a lot of pleasure. Racism is all over Hollywood or should I say Hollyweird...In an interview, Dave Chappelle mention that a white director wanted him to dress like a woman. See? you try to feminize a black man so you could laugh. But Dave Chappelle is the man because he said: "I am funnier without the dress." That is a Martial Artist to me. Not these fools called Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. I am pretty sure both will do it because let's face it: they got no balls. Bruce Lee was the man too because he stood up against racism. He did not want to loose to some Robin. That is what I called a Martial Artist. The only way we could stop racism is when real Martial Artist step up and say: "Enough is enough!"
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