mind is just the opposite of meditation it is the closing of the heart meditation is the opening of the heart
man can live through the mind but then life will not have any significance any poetry, any song, any music it will be trivial, mundane, superficial ultimately frustrating a sheer wastage of a great opportunity a very ungrateful way to live because god gives us such an opportunity to grow and we only accumulate the non-essential money, power, prestige
there is a famous book by napoleon hill: Grow Rich that is not a way to grow that is a way to remain retarded but that's what has become the philosophy of the common man all over the world everybody is interested in the very superficial the reason is that the door to the divine is closed and the door to the mundane is open our schools, colleges and universities are in the service of the society they are agents, their function is to close the heart and to open the head
my work here is to reclaim the heart once the heart starts opening your life becomes a celebration
mind divides you from existence gives you the idea of an ego the heart unites gives you the idea of oneness with the whole and to feel one with the whole is the ultimate in joy there is no higher joy it is the ultimate in love there is nothing higher than it it is the ultimate truth itself because it brings harmony, all conflict disappears life becomes a rhythm a rhythm that goes on deepening every moment
the zen people call it
the Sound of one hand Clapping
now there are not two the music is there but it is not a struck music when you play on the sitar two things are needed the instrument is needed and you are needed you have to strike the strings, it is basically a conflict and out of conflict only mundane music can be born
there is another world of music, another dimension in India we have called it anahat nad unstruck music the player and the played-upon are no more two the musician has become the music the dancer has become the dance that is
the Sound of one hand Clapping
the rose cannot become a rose because its whole effort is diverted into becoming a lotus and a lotus it can never become in fact there is no need if god wanted the rose to become a lotus he would have created a lotus he has created enough lotuses
just the other day i was reading if god wanted homosexuality he would have created adam and bruce he didn't it is so plain but people are trying to improve upon god he has made everybody what he wanted
so the best thing is to discover who am i once you know who you are suddenly all perfectionism disappears because you find you are perfect there is no need to be perfect just as you are, you are perfect
it happens only through meditation because meditation is simply settling into your centre relaxing, resting in your being, to discover who am i?
that very discovery is the only true spirituality all else is mumbo-jumbo
once it is heard all that is worth hearing has been heard
one can think about truth but that is not seeking it is like a blind man thinking about light he can go on thinking for eternity just by thinking about and about he is not going to find light
the word about is beautiful it means around and around he goes around in circles, never touching the centre and that is the way of the mind of philosophy, of theology of all kinds of thinking
it happens only through meditation because meditation is simply settling into your centre relaxing. resting in your being, to discover
the seeker of truth has to stop thinking he has to be utterly silent, in a state of no-thought the whole energy that is involved in thinking has to be released from thinking so that it becomes awareness it is the same energy: you can use it as thought you can use it as awareness
we don't have many energies we have only one energy but there are different manifestations of the same energy meditation is not using your energy as thinking but using your energy as awareness
just being silent -- watching, waiting, seeing
the more you become a seer, the less a thinker the closer you are to the truth, to the light the moment your seeing is absolute you have arrived home
meditation is an inward journey on the outside there are challenges there are adventures but they are nothing compared to the inner challenges and inner adventures there are enemies on the outside but the inner enemies are far bigger only one thing is different, and that is that the inner enemies are our own creation so the moment we decide to destroy them in that very moment they can be destroyed they are our make-believe mind, ego, greed, anger, jealousy, possessiveness all these enemies are there but we have been feeding them, nourishing them we can chop off their heads in a single blow a whole army can be uprooted in a single moment of insight and that's what meditation is
a moment of insight in which you can see how you have been creating your own enemies and that very seeing becomes the death of all your enemies one reaches to the ultimate truth by using these inner enemies as stepping stones of course only their corpses can be used as stepping stones while they are alive they will create trouble they will pull your legs in every direction they will not easily give way hence just fighting won't help understanding is the key try to understand the inner enemies and a miracle happens any enemy totally understood evaporates in that very understanding try to understand jealousy and it is no more try to understand the ego and it is no more understanding functions like a light you bring the light into the dark room and darkness is no more
meditation is a bridge between you and the whole mind is a wall between you and the whole and the same bricks are being used you can make a bridge you can make a wall
sannyas means dismantling the wall and using the same bricks in creating a bridge it is a simple phenomenon it is not as difficult as people have been told
the people who have been saying that it is difficult are basically on ego trips themselves of course if it is difficult and you have attained it only then can your attainment be ego-fulfilling so the so-called saints have been trying to say to people that it is very arduous, that it is almost impossible that only very rare people after lives of effort and virtue attain to it and that too only by god's grace not only you and your effort are going to make it unless god wills it so... god willing that is a necessary condition to it and who knows when he will will it whether he will or not?
these so-called saints have been trying to prove to humanity that meditation is very difficult that is the only way to pretend that they are holier-than-thou that they have attained and you are lives away from that attainment all that you can do is worship them
my approach is totally different meditation is the most simple phenomenon in life there is nothing holy about it there is nothing special about it it is just a small understanding
the same bricks have to be used but arranged in a different way of course and it becomes a bridge
thoughts have the same energy as the state of no-thought desires have the same energy
lust has the same energy as love there is no fundamental difference only the manifestation, the form, has to be changed and that can be easily done if i have been able to do it then anybody can do it because you cannot find a more unholy man in the world
meditation makes you aware of your kingdom of god it is always there you have never lost it it is just that you are not looking at it you are looking outwards and it is inwards you are keeping it at your back it is always there, it cannot go anywhere it follows you like your shadow or even more than that because your shadow disappears in darkness but your inner kingdom is always with you in your misery in your dark nights of the soul even if you go to hell it is with you it is your intrinsic nature but because we don't look at it we remain beggars
everybody is moving with a begging bowl and the moment you turn inwards -- a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn -- suddenly the begging bowl drops from your hands the moment you see what inexhaustible treasures are given to you from the very beginning all desires disappear of their own accord
religions have been telling people just the opposite they have been telling people to first become desireless then they will attain the kingdom of god that is putting everything upside-down that is putting the horses behind the cart neither the cart can move nor the horses can move all movement stops it is just a wrong arrangement one cannot drop desiring unless one finds the inexhaustible treasures of one's being
so my statement is just the opposite i say forget all about desiring, it is natural the begging bowl is bound to be there because you don't know that you are a king or a queen
so first become acquainted with your nature then it is up to you if you still want to carry the begging bowl it is perfectly okay but i have never heard of anybody carrying a begging bowl once he has seen his infinite treasures
so i don't say become desireless then you will become a master i say be a master and you will become desireless desirelessness will be a consequence, a by-product hence my insistence on meditation because that is the art of turning around one-hundred-and-eighty degrees
you can stand in the sun with closed eyes the sun cannot force your eyes to open
existence is very non-violent it never shouts it only whispers it never knocks on your doors it simply stands there it waits, it has patience it trusts that one day, sooner or later you will open the door you will open your eyes and you will see the light
meditation means opening your eyes opening your doors to see the light that is always there once you have seen it your whole being is transformed illuminated, enlightened because suddenly you recognize that you are not separate from the source of light that It Is the same light that they are both joined together that feeling of being one with the source of light brings immense freedom fearlessness, desirelessness and after that experience whatsoever you do is right hence I don't give you any commandments do this, don't do this -- no shoulds, no should-nots i don't give you any discipline i only give you a simple call to open your eyes and to see the light
and after that it is impossible to do anything wrong then a self-discipline comes of its own accord and when discipline comes of its own accord it has a beauty of its own it has a spontaneity, it has joyfulness it has a dancing quality in it it is festive, playful, innocent, unpretending it does not make you a saint it simply makes you very simple extraordinarily ordinary
meditation is the discovery of the perfect centre within ourselves
the moralists, the priests the politicians, the puritans all kinds of so-called leaders of humanity have been teaching people for thousands of years to be perfect they have driven almost everybody crazy they have created a great fever for perfectionism, and perfectionism is the fundamental source of all neurosis once a person becomes obsessed with being perfect he is a goner
i don't tell anybody to be perfect perfection is not something that you have to attain it is your nature it has not to be attained but only discovered and the methods of attainment and discovery are totally different the method of attainment is cultivation become more perfect, become more perfect go on improving go on dropping flaws, errors, mistakes go on polishing your ego
the method of discovery is not of cultivation it is becoming silent so that you can feel
who you are before one tries to be perfect one should know who am i? where do i stand? what is my nature? if without knowing that you are a marigold you start trying to be a perfect rose you will go crazy
to become perfect roses roses have the desire to become perfect lotuses this is how the whole world goes on becoming more and more cuckoo everybody is chasing something which is not his nature so all that happens is that the marigold cannot become a marigold and it cannot become a rose either so there is simply misery
every man, every woman, every tree every bird, every flower has its own uniqueness it is incomparable but we are continuously taught to compare this is how the society creates a hierarchy somebody is superior to you somebody is inferior to you of course with the inferior you behave in one way with the superior in another way you are constantly trying to rise higher in the hierarchy and you are constantly preventing others from rising higher than you this is our whole unnecessary life our whole mess, confusion, chaos and all depends on a simple thing the idea of comparison
comparison brings competition comparison brings wounds and ego on the one hand wounds because there are people who are superior to you and wounds are bound to be and on the other hand it brings ego because there are people who are inferior to you and you are crushed between these two rocks and the whole thing is invented
you are simply yourself you don't belong to any hierarchy nobody is higher than you and nobody is lower than you because nobody is like you hence comparison is impossible and competition is futile
one has just to be oneself that's my basic message the moment you accept yourself as you are all burdens, all mountainous burdens simply disappear then life is a sheer joy a festival of lights
this discovery of one's uniqueness happens only when you become a little silent calm and quiet and you drop out of all those imposed ideas which the society has been throwing upon you from the very childhood
these do-gooders they may be parents, they may be teachers they may be priests... and i don't suspect their intentions their intentions are good but they are unconscious people and unconscious peoples' good intentions also bring bad results they may like you, they may love you they may desire for you a beautiful life but they have lived in ugliness they have lived in suffering they can only impart their suffering to you they will teach you the same strategies that they have followed they will teach you the same ideas that they have lived by they will give their lifestyle to you and they are enough proof that their lifestyle has been an utter failure but still they will go on giving you the same thing each generation gives its diseases to the other generation generations die, diseases seem to be immortal people come and go but diseases remain and if you decide to get out of that bondage they feel betrayed they would like you to just repeat their life although they have been miserable
so i don't suspect their intentions but intentions don't mean anything at all all that has significance is consciousness not unconscious good intentions -- and there are very few people who are conscious
to be in tune with a conscious person is to be a disciple to be a sannyasin
a conscious person can help you to discover yourself he does not impose anything upon you he does not programme you he simply deprogrammes you and leaves you open, available, a clean slate so you can make your own signature you can write your own song and you can dance your own dance
and the greatest experience in life is the experience of one's uniqueness
meditation is not something serious it is a very very long tradition that says meditation is very serious -- it is not it is very playful it is closer to song than to anything else closer to dance than anything else closer to love than anything else meditation cannot be serious by its very nature seriousness is part of the mind playfulness is part of the heart. and meditation means slipping out of the head and entering into the heart it is getting out of the serious affairs of life into an attitude of playfulness
the head is old the heart is always new, fresh like dewdrops in the early morning sun as fresh as new roses opening as fresh as the stars in the night it is not old like the old testament it is not old like the ancient vedas it is very young like a just-born baby with fresh eyes unburdened, uncluttered, with no dust a mirror
so that has to be remembered
being here with me simply means being playful non-serious joyous
i don't teach renunciation i teach rejoicing and the more you rejoice the more you become capable of receiving new gifts from the divine the more you are playful the more god is with you the more you are fresh, young, alive the more stars come down towards you they start filtering into your very being they start reaching your very heart
the serious person is a dead person he has already committed suicide he will live but his life will be only a kind of vegetation he will be a cabbage, a cauliflower, a potato but these people have become saints in the past remember... saint potato, saint cauliflower very serious people look at a potato you will never find a potato non-serious
so beware of seriousness it is the greatest sin live your life as fun and that is the greatest virtue
Osho's Commentary
it is the closing of the heart
meditation is the opening of the heart
man can live through the mind
but then life will not have any significance
any poetry, any song, any music
it will be trivial, mundane, superficial
ultimately frustrating
a sheer wastage of a great opportunity
a very ungrateful way to live
because god gives us such an opportunity to grow
and we only accumulate the non-essential
money, power, prestige
there is a famous book by napoleon hill: Grow Rich
that is not a way to grow
that is a way to remain retarded
but that's what has become the philosophy
of the common man all over the world
everybody is interested in the very superficial
the reason is that the door to the divine is closed
and the door to the mundane is open
our schools, colleges and universities
are in the service of the society
they are agents, their function is to close the heart
and to open the head
my work here is to reclaim the heart
once the heart starts opening
your life becomes a celebration
mind divides you from existence
gives you the idea of an ego
the heart unites
gives you the idea of oneness with the whole
and to feel one with the whole is the ultimate in joy
there is no higher joy
it is the ultimate in love
there is nothing higher than it
it is the ultimate truth itself
because it brings harmony, all conflict disappears
life becomes a rhythm
a rhythm
that goes on deepening every moment
the zen people call it
the Sound
of one hand
Clapping
now there are not two
the music is there but it is not a struck music
when you play on the sitar two things are needed
the instrument is needed and you are needed
you have to strike the strings, it is basically a conflict
and out of conflict
only mundane music can be born
there is another world of music, another dimension
in India we have called it anahat nad
unstruck music
the player and the played-upon are no more two
the musician has become the music
the dancer has become the dance
that is
the Sound
of one hand
Clapping
the rose cannot become a rose
because its whole effort is diverted
into becoming a lotus
and a lotus it can never become
in fact there is no need
if god wanted the rose to become a lotus
he would have created a lotus
he has created enough lotuses
just the other day i was reading
if god wanted homosexuality
he would have created adam and bruce
he didn't
it is so plain
but people are trying to improve upon god
he has made everybody what he wanted
so the best thing is to discover
who am i
once you know who you are
suddenly all perfectionism disappears
because you find you are perfect
there is no need to be perfect
just as you are, you are perfect
it happens only through meditation
because meditation
is simply settling into your centre
relaxing, resting in your being, to discover
who am i?
that very discovery is the only true spirituality
all else is mumbo-jumbo
once it is heard
all that is worth hearing has been heard
one can think about truth but that is not seeking
it is like a blind man thinking about light
he can go on thinking for eternity
just by thinking about and about
he is not going to find light
the word about is beautiful
it means around and around
he goes around in circles, never touching the centre
and that is the way of the mind
of philosophy, of theology
of all kinds of thinking
it happens only through meditation because meditation is simply settling into your centre relaxing. resting in your being, to discover
the seeker of truth has to stop thinking
he has to be utterly silent, in a state of no-thought
the whole energy that is involved in thinking
has to be released from thinking
so that it becomes awareness
it is the same energy: you can use it as thought
you can use it as awareness
we don't have many energies
we have only one energy
but there are different manifestations
of the same energy
meditation is not using your energy as thinking
but using your energy as awareness
just being silent -- watching, waiting, seeing
the more you become a seer, the less a thinker
the closer you are to the truth, to the light
the moment your seeing is absolute
you have arrived home
meditation is an inward journey
on the outside there are challenges
there are adventures
but they are nothing compared to the
inner challenges and inner adventures
there are enemies on the outside
but the inner enemies are far bigger
only one thing is different, and that is that
the inner enemies are our own creation
so the moment we decide to destroy them
in that very moment they can be destroyed
they are our make-believe
mind, ego, greed, anger, jealousy, possessiveness
all these enemies are there
but we have been feeding them, nourishing them
we can chop off their heads in a single blow
a whole army can be uprooted
in a single moment of insight
and that's what meditation is
a moment of insight in which you can see
how you have been creating your own enemies
and that very seeing
becomes the death of all your enemies
one reaches to the ultimate truth
by using these inner enemies as stepping stones
of course only their corpses
can be used as stepping stones
while they are alive they will create trouble
they will pull your legs in every direction
they will not easily give way
hence just fighting won't help
understanding is the key
try to understand the inner enemies
and a miracle happens
any enemy totally understood
evaporates in that very understanding
try to understand jealousy and it is no more
try to understand the ego and it is no more
understanding functions like a light
you bring the light into the dark room
and darkness is no more
meditation is a bridge between you and the whole
mind is a wall between you and the whole
and the same bricks are being used
you can make a bridge
you can make a wall
sannyas means
dismantling the wall and using the same bricks
in creating a bridge
it is a simple phenomenon
it is not as difficult as people have been told
the people who have been saying that it is difficult
are basically on ego trips themselves
of course if it is difficult and you have attained it
only then can your attainment be ego-fulfilling
so the so-called saints
have been trying to say to people
that it is very arduous, that it is almost impossible
that only very rare people
after lives of effort and virtue attain to it
and that too only by god's grace
not only you and your effort are going to make it
unless god wills it so... god willing
that is a necessary condition to it
and who knows when he will will it
whether he will or not?
these so-called saints
have been trying to prove to humanity
that meditation is very difficult
that is the only way to pretend
that they are holier-than-thou
that they have attained
and you are lives away from that attainment
all that you can do is worship them
my approach is totally different
meditation is the most simple phenomenon in life
there is nothing holy about it
there is nothing special about it
it is just a small understanding
the same bricks have to be used
but arranged in a different way of course
and it becomes a bridge
thoughts have the same energy
as the state of no-thought
desires have the same energy
lust has the same energy as love
there is no fundamental difference
only the manifestation, the form, has to be changed
and that can be easily done
if i have been able to do it
then anybody can do it
because you cannot find
a more unholy man in the world
meditation makes you aware
of your kingdom of god
it is always there
you have never lost it
it is just that you are not looking at it
you are looking outwards and it is inwards
you are keeping it at your back
it is always there, it cannot go anywhere
it follows you like your shadow
or even more than that
because your shadow disappears in darkness
but your inner kingdom is always with you
in your misery
in your dark nights of the soul
even if you go to hell it is with you
it is your intrinsic nature
but because we don't look at it we remain beggars
everybody is moving with a begging bowl
and the moment you turn inwards --
a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn --
suddenly the begging bowl drops from your hands
the moment you see what inexhaustible treasures
are given to you from the very beginning
all desires disappear of their own accord
religions have been telling people just the opposite
they have been telling people
to first become desireless
then they will attain the kingdom of god
that is putting everything upside-down
that is putting the horses behind the cart
neither the cart can move nor the horses can move
all movement stops
it is just a wrong arrangement
one cannot drop desiring unless one finds
the inexhaustible treasures of one's being
so my statement is just the opposite
i say forget all about desiring, it is natural
the begging bowl is bound to be there
because you don't know
that you are a king or a queen
so first become acquainted with your nature
then it is up to you
if you still want to carry the begging bowl
it is perfectly okay
but i have never heard
of anybody carrying a begging bowl
once he has seen his infinite treasures
so i don't say become desireless
then you will become a master
i say be a master and you will become desireless
desirelessness will be a consequence, a by-product
hence my insistence on meditation
because that is the art of turning around
one-hundred-and-eighty degrees
you can stand in the sun with closed eyes
the sun cannot force your eyes to open
existence is very non-violent
it never shouts
it only whispers
it never knocks on your doors
it simply stands there
it waits, it has patience
it trusts that one day, sooner or later
you will open the door
you will open your eyes and you will see the light
meditation means opening your eyes
opening your doors
to see the light that is always there
once you have seen it
your whole being is transformed
illuminated, enlightened
because suddenly you recognize
that you are not separate from the source of light
that It Is the same light
that they are both joined together
that feeling of being one with the source of light
brings immense freedom
fearlessness, desirelessness
and after that experience whatsoever you do is right
hence I don't give you any commandments
do this, don't do this -- no shoulds, no should-nots
i don't give you any discipline
i only give you a simple call to open your eyes
and to see the light
and after that
it is impossible to do anything wrong
then a self-discipline comes of its own accord
and when discipline comes of its own accord
it has a beauty of its own
it has a spontaneity, it has joyfulness
it has a dancing quality in it
it is festive, playful, innocent, unpretending
it does not make you a saint
it simply makes you very simple
extraordinarily ordinary
meditation is the discovery
of the perfect centre within ourselves
the moralists, the priests
the politicians, the puritans
all kinds of so-called leaders of humanity
have been teaching people for thousands of years
to be perfect
they have driven almost everybody crazy
they have created a great fever for perfectionism,
and perfectionism
is the fundamental source of all neurosis
once a person becomes obsessed with being perfect
he is a goner
i don't tell anybody to be perfect
perfection is not something that you have to attain
it is your nature
it has not to be attained but only discovered
and the methods of attainment and discovery
are totally different
the method of attainment is cultivation
become more perfect, become more perfect
go on improving
go on dropping flaws, errors, mistakes
go on polishing your ego
the method of discovery is not of cultivation
it is becoming silent
so that you can feel
who you are
before one tries to be perfect
one should know who am i? where do i stand?
what is my nature?
if without knowing that you are a marigold
you start trying to be a perfect rose
you will go crazy
to become perfect roses
roses have the desire to become perfect lotuses
this is how the whole world
goes on becoming more and more cuckoo
everybody is chasing something
which is not his nature
so all that happens is that the marigold
cannot become a marigold
and it cannot become a rose either
so there is simply misery
every man, every woman, every tree
every bird, every flower
has its own uniqueness
it is incomparable
but we are continuously taught to compare
this is how the society creates a hierarchy
somebody is superior to you
somebody is inferior to you
of course with the inferior you behave in one way
with the superior in another way
you are constantly trying
to rise higher in the hierarchy
and you are constantly preventing others
from rising higher than you
this is our whole unnecessary life
our whole mess, confusion, chaos
and all depends on a simple thing
the idea of comparison
comparison brings competition
comparison brings wounds and ego
on the one hand wounds
because there are people who are superior to you
and wounds are bound to be
and on the other hand it brings ego
because there are people who are inferior to you
and you are crushed between these two rocks
and the whole thing is invented
you are simply yourself
you don't belong to any hierarchy
nobody is higher than you
and nobody is lower than you
because nobody is like you
hence comparison is impossible
and competition is futile
one has just to be oneself
that's my basic message
the moment you accept yourself as you are
all burdens, all mountainous burdens
simply disappear
then life is a sheer joy
a festival of lights
this discovery of one's uniqueness happens only
when you become a little silent
calm and quiet
and you drop out of all those imposed ideas
which the society has been throwing upon you
from the very childhood
these do-gooders
they may be parents, they may be teachers
they may be priests...
and i don't suspect their intentions
their intentions are good
but they are unconscious people
and unconscious peoples' good intentions
also bring bad results
they may like you, they may love you
they may desire for you a beautiful life
but they have lived in ugliness
they have lived in suffering
they can only impart their suffering to you
they will teach you the same strategies
that they have followed
they will teach you the same ideas
that they have lived by
they will give their lifestyle to you
and they are enough proof
that their lifestyle has been an utter failure
but still they will go on giving you the same thing
each generation gives its diseases
to the other generation
generations die, diseases seem to be immortal
people come and go but diseases remain
and if you decide to get out of that bondage
they feel betrayed
they would like you to just repeat their life
although they have been miserable
so i don't suspect their intentions
but intentions don't mean anything at all
all that has significance is consciousness
not unconscious good intentions --
and there are very few people who are conscious
to be in tune with a conscious person
is to be a disciple
to be a sannyasin
a conscious person can help you
to discover yourself
he does not impose anything upon you
he does not programme you
he simply deprogrammes you
and leaves you open, available, a clean slate
so you can make your own signature
you can write your own song
and you can dance your own dance
and the greatest experience in life is
the experience of one's uniqueness
meditation is not something serious
it is a very very long tradition
that says meditation is very serious --
it is not
it is very playful
it is closer to song than to anything else
closer to dance than anything else
closer to love than anything else
meditation cannot be serious by its very nature
seriousness is part of the mind
playfulness is part of the heart.
and meditation means slipping out of the head
and entering into the heart
it is getting out of the serious affairs of life
into an attitude of playfulness
the head is old
the heart is always new, fresh
like dewdrops in the early morning sun
as fresh as new roses opening
as fresh as the stars in the night
it is not old like the old testament
it is not old like the ancient vedas
it is very young like a just-born baby
with fresh eyes
unburdened, uncluttered, with no dust
a mirror
so that has to be remembered
being here with me simply means being
playful
non-serious
joyous
i don't teach renunciation
i teach rejoicing
and the more you rejoice
the more you become capable of receiving
new gifts from the divine
the more you are playful
the more god is with you
the more you are fresh, young, alive
the more stars come down towards you
they start filtering into your very being
they start reaching your very heart
the serious person is a dead person
he has already committed suicide
he will live
but his life will be only a kind of vegetation
he will be a cabbage, a cauliflower, a potato
but these people have become saints in the past
remember...
saint potato, saint cauliflower
very serious people
look at a potato
you will never find a potato non-serious
so beware of seriousness
it is the greatest sin
live your life as fun
and that is the greatest virtue