:: LAUGHTER ::
 
“Laughter is authentic prayer. Whenever you are crying and weeping, you are asking for consolation, you are asking for somebody to help you in your despair. But when you are having a belly laughter, you are not asking for anything, you are giving something to existence, just like the cuckoos which are pouring their sweet songs into existence.
Your laughter is a giving away, and a gift worth giving. And if you have experienced, even once, the joy of laughter as prayer, even your tears will not be tears of despair. They will go through a transformation; they will be tears of your joy, of your abundance.
Tears are not necessarily of misery. If you see a friend after many years, your eyes may be filled with tears of sweet memories, of peaceful yesterdays, of all that has transpired between you and the friend. Those tears are simply a remembrance; they have a beauty of their own. And it happens... there are people here to whom it has happened, and thousands more of my people who have reported to me, "It is strange. People think we are mad because we are laughing and weeping together." Then the prayer is complete.
When tears and laughter have the same quality and the same rhythm, then prayer has come to a completion.”
The Messiah, Vol-2, # 12, The Silent Gratitude

Laughter time with Osho : 

1. At three o'clock in the morning, the phone rings on the hotel night desk. The night porter, O'Grady, picks it up. "Hello," says Paddy's alcohol-filled voice. "What time do you open the bar?"
"At ten o'clock in the morning," replies O'Grady and puts down the phone.
At five a.m. the phone rings again. "What time did you say you open the bar?" asks an even drunker Paddy.
"I told you ten o'clock," says O'Grady angrily, "and you are not going to be let in!" He is about to slam down the phone when Paddy whines, "But I don't want to get in, I want to get out."

2. A man walks into a bar, orders a drink and proceeds to laugh out loud for about two minutes. When all the people are looking at him, he abruptly stops laughing, and starts crying and sobbing. After about two minutes of this, a smile comes onto his face and he again breaks into uncontrollable laughter.
This is followed by another bout of crying and then more laughter. After about twenty minutes of alternate laughing and crying, he looks up at all the inquiring faces and says, "Please forgive me, but my mother-in-law has just driven over a cliff in my new Rolls Royce."

3. Mendel Kravitz saves up for many years to buy a really fine tailor-made suit, his very first. But after he's been out in it for an hour, he notices that there are things wrong with it. He goes back to the tailor.
"The arms are too long," says Mendel.
"No problem," replies the tailor. "Just hold your arms out further and bend at the elbows."
"But the trouser legs are too long," says Mendel.
"Right," replies the tailor. "No problem, just walk with your knees bent."
"But the collar is too high, it's halfway up the back of my head!" says Mendel.
"Okay, just poke your head out further," says the tailor.
So Mendel goes out into the world with his first tailor-made suit. As he's passing a couple in the street, the woman says, "Look at that poor man! He must have had polio."
"Yes," her husband replies. "But he must have a great tailor, his suit fits him perfectly."

4. Goldberg had a vague feeling that something was missing in his life. One night he was particularly depressed and told his wife about his yearning for something.
"But Sam," reassured his wife, "you have everything!"
"I know, I know! But I don't have a philosophy of life -- I want that."
"Sam, what do you want that for? None of the neighbors have one."

5. Marty and his wife Louise sat at the bar of a Chicago hotel. Marty pointed to a striking blonde sitting at the other end and said, "That's a hooker."
"I don't believe it," said Louise.
"I will show you," said Marty. He walked over and chatted with the blonde -- five minutes later they were in his room.
"How much?" asked Marty.
"Fifty bucks."
"I will give you twenty."
"Forget it," said the prostitute as she walked out the door.
A few minutes later Marty rejoined his spouse at the bar. The call girl walked over and tapped him on the shoulder. "You see," she said, "that's what you get for twenty dollars."

6. Mulla Nasruddin once told me, 'Well, I have been putting off the evil day for months but I have got to go this time.'
'Dentist or doctor?' I inquired.
'Neither,' he said, 'I am getting married.'

7. Mulla Nasruddin was getting fatter and fatter, stouter and stouter. The doctor advised a diet. After two months Mulla went to see the doctor. The doctor said, 'My God! It is a miracle! You are even fatter than before -- I cannot believe my eyes! Are you strictly following the diet I gave you? Are you eating only that which I prescribed and nothing else?'
Nasruddin said, 'Nothing whatever! Of course I'm following your diet.'
The doctor couldn't believe it. He said, 'Tell me, Nasruddin, nothing whatever?'
Nasruddin said, 'Of course! Except my regular meals.”