According to Osho, humor is a device to puncture solemnity, expose social conditioning, and relax the listener so truth can enter. By joking about ‘plumber’s,’ ‘pimp’s,’ or ‘president’s’ cars—and finally a Rolls—he mirrors our projections’ absurdity. Laughter disarms the ego, dissolves judgment, and prepares a climate of receptivity where meditation, insight, and nonattachment can flower.
He uses jokes to show how silly our judgments are so we relax and see more clearly.