According to Osho, humor is a spiritual device that relaxes the ego, punctures pretension, and opens you to innocence. Laughter makes you porous—like being 'drunk' on bliss—so fear drops and a greater capacity to absorb joy appears. Absurdity, like Bodhidharma’s shoe, shocks the mind out of repression and etiquette, bringing the real question to the surface and allowing direct contact with truth.
Humor cracks your seriousness so you relax, feel safe, and let real questions and joy come out.