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“The secret of happiness is to take humour seriously, and seriousness humorously.” -- Swami Beyondananda In a little town in West Texas the town’s Madame came to the local minister and said, “Reverend, I would like to make amends for my life. I want to donate all my money to your church.” “Well ma’am,” said the minister, “I’m sorry, but I can’t accept your offer.” She left, and one of the parishoners asked the minister, “Reverend, why did you turn down her generous offer?” “Because her money is tainted money,” the minister told him. “What do mean HER money?” was the reply. “That’s OUR money!” I’ve done hundreds of Sunday morning talks at churches on The Healing Power of Laughter and that story always gets a big laugh. Why? Because it gently reflects back to us the shadow aspects of our human nature. In that moment when the punchline lands, ‘enlightening’ strikes, and we recognise our own rationalisations, contradictions, and the ultimate absurdity of moral posturing that points a finger elsewhere. I call this instantaneous recognition of our own foolishness ‘fool realisation’ and it is one of the ‘serious’ benefits of mind-expanding humour and heart-opening laughter. To be ‘fooly-realised’ is to see our foolishness, and love ourselves anyway. Whenever our puppy Buster did something bad he would hide under the couch. When he grew too big to fit, he would simply put his head under the couch with his big doggie behind sticking out. We laughed at his, ‘If-I-can’t-see-you, you-can’t-see-me’ strategy. I now realise we were really laughing at ourselves for all those times we buried our head, and our arse was sticking out. * * * * |
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