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7. LAUGHTER

Why wait for reasons to laugh? Life as it is should be reason enough to laugh. It is so absurd, it is so ridiculous. It is so beautiful, so wonderful! It is all sorts of things together. It is a great cosmic joke.

Laughter is the easiest thing in the world if you allow it, but it has become hard. People laugh very rarely, and even when they laugh it is not true. People laugh as if they are obliging somebody, as if they are fulfilling a certain duty. Laughter is fun. You are not obliging anybody!

You should not laugh to make somebody else happy, because if you are not happy, you cannot make anybody else happy. You should simply laugh of your own accord, without waiting for reasons to laugh. If you start looking into things, you will not able to stop laughing. Everything is simply perfect for laughter--- nothing is lacking ---but we won’t allow it. We are very miserly…miserly about laughter, about love, about life. Once you know that miserliness can be dropped, you move into a different dimension. Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

7. 笑

為什麼要有理由才能笑呢？生命本身就是最好的理由。生命是如此荒誕，如此滑稽；如此美麗,如此絕妙！生命是所有事物的聯集,它本身就是個宇宙般大的笑話。

假如你允許，世間最容易的事情莫過於笑。但是笑已經變得很難。人們很少笑，就算他們在笑也不是真的笑。人們笑是為了讓別人覺得親切,好像他們在完成某些特定的責任。笑就是嬉戲。你不必取悅任何人！

你不應該為了取悅別人而笑。如果你不快樂,你就無法使別人快樂。為自己而笑!
假如你開始很細究每一件事情﹐你會笑個不停。每一件事都好笑極了﹐沒有例外﹐可是我們就是不肯笑。我們實在是太吝嗇了...對於笑、對於愛、對於生命都是如此吝嗇。當你懂得丟棄所謂的吝嗇﹐你就會進入完全不同的境界。笑才是實在的信仰。除此之外﹐全都是抽象論述而已。