According to Osho, he won’t recount a “past life as an Italian”; instead he sidesteps identity-hungry curiosity with humor, using ethnic jokes to show how the mind clings to labels and stories. Laughter becomes a device to relax seriousness, drop borrowed identities, and return to presence—where who you truly are is known directly, not through biographies or fantasies.
He won’t tell past-life stories; he uses jokes to show that labels like “Italian” don’t matter—being present does.