Why is it difficult to laugh, even at jokes?
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"Laughter is the music of the soul, but when we allow ego and conditioning to dominate, we become rigid and lose touch with our natural spontaneity. Let go of pretensions and embrace your ordinariness; only then will laughter flow freely once more."
According to Osho, laughter is natural, but we’ve been made unnatural by ego and social conditioning—morality, ambition, and fear of our own nature. To stay in control, we repress spontaneity, becoming sad and rigid, so even jokes can’t touch us. Drop pretensions, relax into ordinariness, trust nature over ego; then laughter returns spontaneously.
You can’t laugh because you’re pretending and controlling; be simple and real, and laughter will happen by itself.
Why this matters practically
- Notice where ego and ambition make you perform; choose simple, ordinary authenticity instead.
- Relax the need to control: breathe, drop masks, allow playful moments daily.
- Question inherited rules that repress spontaneity; align choices with natural joy.
- Relax the need to control: breathe, drop masks, allow playful moments daily.
- Question inherited rules that repress spontaneity; align choices with natural joy.
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