They get a chance to become hollow and empty. That emptiness only is the first step towards attaining enlightenment.
Many times, due to anxieties and worries, our mind gets tired and depression may set in. Laughter is a good medicine to make us normal in those moments.
Some are even able to tell us great things in such an easy way, like poking a ripe banana with a needle! The reason: their sense of humor and laughter.
In a house, the wife was working in the kitchen, when she heard a sound. 'What is that sound?' asked the wife. The husband said, 'A shirt has fallen out of the window.'
The wife again asked, 'So much sound for simply a shirt falling?' When the husband said, 'I was within that shirt,' she felt a little ashamed.
The husband, who was a mature person, to make his wife understand that she was not at all respecting him, said this humorously. He settled the matter without giving room for any quarrel much in the same way as poking a ripe banana with a needle.
An eye doctor had kept three sets of eyeglasses on his table. A person who came there to get his eyes checked, pointed to one of the eyeglasses and asked, What is this suitable for?' The doctor replied, 'It is for nearsightedness.'
The visitor showed the second eyeglasses and asked. 'What is this one for?' The doctor replied. 'This is for farsightedness."
He pointed to the third eyeglasses and asked, 'What is this one for?' Immediately the doctor said, 'This one for seeing where the other eyeglasses are.' Disease is common to all. It will come to you and to me as well. It will come to everyone. Only to make it understood, the doctor replied that wav. Only if a person possesses a sense of humor. he can manage even an embarrassing situation with ease and pleasure.
For a few people, it is possible to make others laugh even in a critical situation. At a time when Hitler was having his heyday, he was holding a meeting with the journalists on the top floor of a multi-storied building. To prove his might and his total control over everything, Hitler asked a soldier to jump out. Immediately the soldier jumped out to the ground and turned to pieces. Hitler thought that the iournalists may think that only an ordinary soldier had obeyed and jumped out. So he called another high ranking major-general and asked him to jump out.
As he was about to jump, one of the journalists rushed and prevented him from jumping out. Then that general whispered into his ears, 'Oh, you sinner, you have actually prevented me from the only chance of escaping from Hitler.' You can find throughout history lots of such laughs. Laugh. Are you asking, 'thinking about what?'
Think about yourself and laugh! If we deeply think about our own selves, we can find out that we, ourselves are an object to laugh at. Instead of mocking and laughing at others, if we only know ourselves fully and totally, we can laugh at ourselves freely. We will know about ourselves.
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- If we feel that men are gods, houses as palaces, the world as heaven, then it means that we are really healthy.
- ❖ Those who are healthy will be joyful. Those who are joyful should and must be healthy. There is no other way. This is a 'Formula of Bliss.'
Physical problem = Disease.
- Mental problem = Suffering.