Osho says : A person can be whole with humor.

You can be whole with humor, says OSHO

Religion has been missing one very fundamental quality: sense of humour. It has been unfortunate because it has made religion sick.

Sense of humour is an essential part of the wholeness of man. It keeps us healthy, young, and fresh. For centuries, sad people have dominated religion. They have expelled laughter — from churches, mosques, and from temples. The day laughter enters back into holy places, they will be really holy, because they will be whole. Laughter is the only quality that distinguishes us from other animals. Only humans can see the ridiculous, the absurd. Only we have the capacity and consciousness to be aware of the cosmic joke that existence is. Existence is a cosmic joke; it is not a serious affair.

Seriousness Is A Disease
Seriousness is a disease, but seriousness has been praised, respected, honoured. 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 humour, for laughter.

Laughter is far more sacred than prayer, because prayer can be done by any 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. 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.

Humour needs presence, utter presence. It is not a question of analysis; it is a question of insight.

Glimpse Of Egolessness
To be able to laugh, you need to be like a child — egoless. And when you laugh, suddenly laughter is there, you are not. You come back when the laughter is gone. When the laughter is disappearing far away, when it is subsiding, you come back, the ego comes back. But in the very moment of laughter, you have a glimpse of egolessness.



There are only two activities in which you can feel egolessness easily. One is laughter, another is dancing. Dancing is a physiological method, a bodily method to feel egolessness. When the dancer is lost in his dance, he is no more — there is only dance.

Laughter is a little more subtle than dance, it is a little more inner, but it has also the same fragrance. When you laugh...it has to be belly laughter.
Laugh so that your whole body, your whole being becomes involved, and suddenly there will be a glimpse. For the moment the past disappears, the future disappears, the ego disappears, everything disappears — there is only laughter. And in that moment of laughter you will be able to see the whole existence laughing.

Lao Tzu’s Buffalo
Lao Tzu had a sense of humour. Maybe because of that he could not become the founder of a great religion. He used to ride on a buffalo. Now, couldn’t he find a horse? Anybody could have afforded at least a donkey — but a buffalo...? And that too, not in the right position, but sitting backwards! The buffalo is going one way and Lao Tzu is looking the other way. He must have created laughter wherever he passed. People must have gathered to see the scene. Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.

Interesting Facts and Mysteries!

Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

Mosquito repellents don't repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT".

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head..

We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines

Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.

Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka

There are more chickens than people in the world.

The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C. .

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction

China has more English speakers than the United States

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu a New Zealand hill.

If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

Scientists in Australia 's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.

Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.

More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss..

Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond. Also, it was believed in olden times that the sneeze expelled an evil spirit.