13. Osho Lach Meditatie

Osho Lachmeditatie

First stage: 30 minutes

Laugh for no reason at all – go in and find your own laughter inside.

Allow the laugher to bubble up from the inside. Create a giggle in the very guts of your being, as if your whole body is giggling, laughing.

Start swaying with that laughter; let it spread from the belly to the whole of your body: hands laughing, feet laughing. Go crazily into it.

For 30 minutes do the laughing.
If it comes uproariously, loudly, allow it.
If it comes silently, then sometimes silently, sometimes loudly, but simply laugh for 30
minutes.

Second stage: 15 minutes

Lie down on the belly, silent and still.

Lie down on the floor; spread yourself on the floor, facing the floor. Make contact with the earth, the whole body lying down there on the earth, and just feel that the earth is the mother and you are the child. Get lost in that feeling. Breathe with the earth, feel one with the earth. We come from the earth and one day we will be going back to it.

Third stage: 15 minutes

Dance to the tune of energizing music.

"Laughter .....

needs a great learning, and laughter is a great medicine. It can cure many of your tensions, anxieties, worries: the whole energy can flow into laughter. And there is no need that there should be some occasion, some cause.

In my meditation camps I used to have a laughing meditation: for no reason, people would sit and just start laughing.

At first they would feel a little awkward that there was no reason ~ but when everybody is doing it ….. they would also start. Soon, everybody was in such a great laughter, people were rolling on the ground. They were laughing at the very fact that so many people were laughing for no reason at all; there was nothing, not even a joke had been told. And it went on like waves.

So there is no harm ..… even just sitting in your room, close the doors and have one hour of simple laughter. Laugh at yourself.

But learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

And life is so full of opportunities. You just need the sensitivity. And create chances for other people to laugh. Laughter should be one of the most valued, cherished qualities of human beings ~ because only man can laugh, no animals are capable of it. Because it is human, it must be of the highest order. To repress it is to destroy a human quality."

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