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The lightness of the being


'Laughter is the best medicine.
If you can laugh when you are ill you will get your health back sooner.
If you cannot laugh, even if you are healthy, sooner or later you will lose your health
and you will become ill.

Laughter brings inner energy to the fore.
When you really laugh, for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state.
Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.
When you really laugh, suddenly, the mind disappears.


- Osho -

This page is dedicated to those who want to experience the quality of lightness while on their "journey home".

A completely absorbing experience, laughter is a simple, fast and amusing way of bringing us into the present and cutting the mind off - an ideal condition to observe difficulties detachedly and remember that we are not the problem.

We have collected some extracts from Osho discourses for you - stories and anecdotes carrying a message of playfulness and joy through laughter.

A man with three hairs on his otherwise bald head came into a hair saloon and asked to get his hair shampooed and braided.

The hairdresser got on with his job but just as he was about to finish combing it, one of the hairs fell out.

The hairdresser was very embarrassed but the man only said, “Well, what to do? I guess I will have to part my hair in the middle!”

The hairdresser very carefully put one hair to the right side and was about to put the other to the left side when that one fell out too. The hairdresser could not apologize enough but the man took it really cool.

“Well,” he said, “I guess now I will have to run around with my hair all ruffled up.”

This is tathata, this is total acceptance! You cannot disturb such a man. He is always contented, he always finds a way to be contented. It is a great art. And a man who is always contented and always finds a way to remain contented has the capacity to see things transparently.

Never allow yourself this tendency for being great, famous, someone bigger than life-size - never. Life-size is perfect. To be exactly life-size, to be just ordinary, is perfectly as it should be. But live that ordinariness in an extraordinary way.
That is what a nirvanic consciousness is all about.


“Mrs. Moskowitz was bursting with pride. ‘Did you hear about my son Louie?’ she asked her neighbour.
‘No. What is with your son Louie?’
‘He is going to a psychiatrist. Twice each week he is going to a psychiatrist.’
‘Is that good?’
‘Of course it is good. Forty dollars an hour he pays. Forty dollars! — and all he talks about is me,’ said the mother. ”


“Doctor, my wife thinks she is a refrigerator.”
“Why don’t you divorce her?”
“I would but I need the ice.”


“Doctor, my girlfriend thinks she is a rabbit.”
“Bring her in. I will see what can I do.”
“Okay, but whatever happens, I hope you don’t cure her.”

Nobody wants really to be helped. People are only playing games. They go to the psychiatrist in the hope that he can’t do anything, that he is not going really to change them. Nobody wants to be changed; everybody wants to remain the same as he is. You have become so accustomed to your misery, to your pathology… it is your life, it is your way of life...

Julia came to her father with her head downcast. “Poppa,” she said, “you know that rich Mr. Wolfe? Well, he betrayed me, and I am going to have a baby.” “My God!” said the father. “Where is he? I will kill him! Give me his address. I will murder him!” Dashing to the rich man’s home, he cornered him and in a loud voice told him what he intended to do. But the rich Mr. Wolfe was quite calm. “Don’t get excited,” he said. “I am not running away, and I intend to do right by your daughter. If she has a boy, she gets $50,000; if it is a girl, she gets $35,000. Is that fair?” The father halted, while the look of anger on his face changed. “And if it is a miscarriage,” he pleaded, “will you give her another chance? ”

Watch… watch yourself continuously; circumstances change and you immediately change. Something in you starts sprouting, something starts closing...

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