Economy of laughter
Mulla
Nasrudin listened very attentively while a stranger told a long story in the
coffee-house.
But
the man spoke so indistinctly and muffed his punchline so badly that the story
was not funny at all, and except for the Mulla no one laughed. But the Mulla
laughed heartily.
“Why
did you laugh, Nasrudin?” I asked him afterwards when the stranger had left.
“I
always do,” replied Nasrudin. “If you don’t laugh, there is always the danger
of their telling it over again.”
People
have their own reasons. Even laughter is businesslike; even laughter is
economic, political. Even laughter is not just laughter. All purity is lost.
You cannot even laugh in a pure way, in a simple way, childlike.
And
if you cannot laugh in a pure way, you are losing something tremendously
valuable. You are losing your virginity, your purity, your innocence.
Osho – A Sudden Clash of Thunder
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