La Risa es mucho más sagrada que la oración. Osho
El sentido del humor es parte, una parte esencial, de la completud del hombre. Le mantiene sano, joven, fresco. Y durante siglos la gente seria ha dominado la religión. Ha echado la risa de las iglesias, de las sinagogas, de los templos. El día que la risa vuelva a los sitios sagrados serán muy sagrados, porque estarán completos.
La risa es la única cualidad que diferencia al hombre de otros animales. Solo el hombre puede ver lo ridículo, lo absurdo. Solo él tiene la capacidad y la conciencia de ser consciente de la broma cósmica que es la existencia. ES una broma cósmica, no es un asunto serio.
La seriedad es una enfermedad, pero sin embargo ha sido rezada, respectada y honorada. Era absolutamente esencial ser serio para ser un santo, por esto solo gente patológica se interesó en la religión, la gente incapaz de reir. Y la gente que es incapaz de reir son subhumanos, no son humanos aún--- como pueden llegar a ser divinos? Es imposible, aún no son humanos. Y el humano es el puente entre animal y divino. Por eso tengo tremendo respeto al sentido del humor, por la risa.
La risa es mucho más sagrada que la oración, porque la oración puede estar hecha por una persona estúpida, no requiere mucha inteligencia. La risa requiere inteligencia, requiere presencia de mente, rapidez para ver las cosas. Una broma no puede ser explicada, o la entiendes o te la pierdes. Si se explica pierde el sentido, las bromas no se pueden explicar, o la cojes o no.
El humor requiere presencia. No es una cuestión de análisis, es una cuestión de visión interior.
Laughter is far more sacred than prayer...osho
The sense of humor is part, an essential part, of the wholeness of man. It keeps him healthy, it keeps him young, it keeps him fresh. And for centuries the sad people have dominated religion. They have expelled laughter -- from the churches, from the mosques, from the temples. The day laughter enters back into the holy places they will be really holy, because they will be whole.
Laughter is the only quality that distinguishes man from other animals. Only man can see the ridiculous, the absurd. Only he has the capacity and the consciousness to be aware of the cosmic joke that existence is. It IS a cosmic joke; it is not a serious affair.
Seriousness is a disease, but seriousness has been praised, respected, honored. It was absolutely essential to be serious to be a saint; hence only pathological people became interested in religion, people who were incapable of laughter. And people who are incapable of laughter are subhuman, they are not human yet -- what to say about their being divine? That is impossible -- they have not yet become human. And to be human is the bridge between the animal and the divine. Hence I have tremendous respect for the sense of humor, for laughter.
Laughter is far more sacred than prayer, because prayer can be done by any stupid person; it does not require much intelligence. Laughter requires intelligence, it requires presence of mind, a quickness of seeing into things. A joke cannot be explained: either you understand it or you miss it. If it is explained it loses the whole point; hence no joke can be explained. Either immediately you get it.... If you don't get it immediately then you can try to find out the meaning of it; you will find out the meaning, but the joke will not be there. It was in the immediacy.
Humor needs presence, utter presence. It is not a question of analysis, it is a question of insight.
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