Life is Laughter. Don't waste it being Serious | Osho

Seriousness is a deadly disease, Osho says. If you get it, your life is doomed. Oh! Have I been a little serious saying that? Seems so. Ok let me go around the other way. Laughter is a very good healer. It just not only heals our life but also makes our life feel light and happy. Think of life as a game and take it in game spirit, then you don’t have worries in your life. Life is a game. You have nothing to lose… even if you lose, it’s not real. It is just a part of the game…. You will get it somewhere else… Here is what Osho Rajeesh says on Laughter and Seriousness:

"Laughter is one of the things most repressed by society all over the world, in all the ages.Society wants you to be serious. Parents want their children to be serious, teachers want their students to be serious, the bosses want their servants to be serious, the commanders want their armies to be serious. Seriousness is required of everybody. Laughter is dangerous and rebellious.When the teacher is teaching you and you start laughing, it will be taken as an insult. Your parents are saying something to you and you start laughing -- it will be taken as an insult. Seriousness is thought to be honor, respect. Naturally laughter has been repressed so much that even though life all around is hilarious, nobody is laughing. If your laughter is freed from its chains, from its bondage, you will be surprised -- on each step there is something hilarious happening. Life is not serious. Only graveyards are serious, death is serious. Life is love, life is laughter, life is dance, song.The constant repression of laughter has made you laughter blind. Situations are happening everywhere, but you cannot see that there is any reason to laugh. If your laughter is freed from its bondage, the whole world will be full of laughter. It needs to be full of laughter; it will change almost everything in human life. You will not be as miserable as you are. In fact, you are not as miserable as you look -- it is misery plus seriousness that makes you look so miserable. Just misery plus laughter, and you will not look so miserable!” - Beyond Enlightenment, Chapter #27

It is hard to begin with, because all these years we have lived life seriously and all of a sudden we cannot think of it as a game with all fun. I tried to see my life as a game years ago and it’s fun now, though I get serious sometimes (you know the old dog habit goes not soon!) I’m able to laugh at most serious things in my life and it’s pretty cool. Day by day, I find more opportunities to laugh at, and wonder why I haven’t been so happier earlier. The answer is I took life more serious before and now I just see it as fun.