Laughter

When you laugh, it is not simply a laugh. Your whole body changes. If the society you have been brought up in has inhibited laughing, then your abdomen will have a different shape than if you were brought up in a society that encourages laughter. People brought up in certain societies cannot really laugh because laughter has been inhibited. Their speech is affected by it; everything becomes unnatural, a mannerism Then you cannot breathe deeply, because if you cannot laugh you cannot take a deep breath. And in the same way, if you cannot weep easily, you cannot breathe easily. Everything in the body is interconnected
_Osho
The Eternal Quest
Chapter – 4

Laughter Time :

•  It was their first quarrel.
  "And you tell me that several women proposed marriage to you?" asked the wife.
  "Yes, several," replied the Mulla.
  "Well, I wish you had married the first fool who proposed."
  "I did," said Nasrudin.
• "Just look at me!" declares old man Rubenstein. "I don't smoke, drink or chase women, and tomorrow I will celebrate my eightieth birthday."
  "You will?" asked his son curiously. "How? You neither smoke, nor drink, nor chase women.
  How are you going to celebrate?"
•  The forgetful professor left his hotel room and discovered he had left his umbrella behind. He went back to get it and found that the room had been rented already. Through the door he heard sounds.
  "Whose little baby are you?"
  "Your little baby."
  "And whose little hands are these?"
  "Your little hands."
  "And whose little feet are... and whose little knees... and whose little...?"
  "When you get to an umbrella," said the professor, through the door, "it is mine."
•  The Garda watched Mulligan desperately trying to open his front door as he swayed from side to side. "Here, Mulligan," he said, "can I help you with that key?"
  "Nosh at all, guard, I can manage the key if you -- hic -- could hold the house steady!"
•  Paddy and Sean were sitting in the bar when Paddy said, "You know, Sean, I have read so much lately about how smoking can ruin your health that I have finally decided to do something about it."
  "So, you are going to give up smoking?" asked Sean.
  "Heavens no," cried Paddy, "I am going to give up reading."
•  A doctor told a small child that if one eats an apple a day, it keeps the doctor away.
  The child said, 'Ah, nuts ! This is nothing !'
  The doctor was a little shocked. He said, 'What do you mean, "This is nothing?"'
  The child said, 'I have got a better advice to give.'
  The doctor said, 'What is that?'
  The child said, 'Eat one onion a day, and it keeps everybody away! Not only the doctor -- everybody!'

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