Core Insight:
According to Osho, nobody has the last laugh. Enlightenment ends the mind's play altogether; beyond mind there is neither laughter nor tears, only silent wholeness. Laughter exists only within mind's narrow band, a compensating polarity to misery born of seeing the ridiculous. When you dissolve into the universe, the separate laugher disappears. Therefore, laugh fully before enlightenment; afterward, the very conditions for laughter are gone.