Comments on: Having a Laugh: A Mark of True Spirituality

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:16:14 +0000

No, Satchit; that´s not what ´irritated’ me, to use your
choice of word.

And no doubt about it, that it’s good to be as aware (as possible), not to enter “the wrong room”.

No, Satchit, what touched me deeply was that Arpana, a friend of our small chat SN community, had that choice of a quote. And as far as our little chat exchange is concerned, Arpana´s and mine, it is ended for the moment with a mutual “thanks”.

I´d like to leave it like that in the Here-Now, Satchit.

Madhu

By: satchit

satchit — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:00:38 +0000

What irritates you in that joke, Madhu? Is it not about that one should be aware not to enter the wrong room?

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:35:29 +0000

Thanks for responding with thanks, Arpana,

It’s probably ´as good as it gets´, as one says.
In a virtual caravanserai.

Have a good day.
All of us, may we have a good day. In midst of the Mystery unfolding.

Sincerely,

Madhu

By: Arpana

Arpana — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:01:57 +0000

Why Are You Laughing? (Seth Stephens-Davidowitz).

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz “thought we used humour to deal with the horror of human existence. Many famous comedians have experienced trauma and depression. Personally, I turn to comedy when I am unhappy. Granted, I’m almost always miserable and almost always looking to laugh, so that doesn’t tell us much.”

https://goo.gl/ViUQgD

By: Arpana

Arpana — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 20:54:06 +0000

Thanks again.

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:45:04 +0000

Hi Arpana,

This is – in my eyes as a reader – a quite dissociated ´thanks´ ( and even) with an exclamation mark.

Seems to be that I am the only one of the readers who is not chilled by your ´quote-joke´, taken out of a lecture in ‘Philosophia Perennis’. I simply didn´t get it, why you chose that quote by your other contributions to the special ongoing chat topic thread…

Only stuff I probably do get is (see your exclamation mark) that you seem to be content. But what about?

And what has that to do with you? And your life story? In Sannyas and beyond.

Would be nice if you could decide for more transparency. After all, it’s a chat here at this place, caravanserai SN/UK chat, isn´t it?

Madhu

By: Arpana

Arpana — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:08:10 +0000

Thanks!

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:58:46 +0000

Not really funny, Arpana. Guess it would be good to know the context of this in this case.

Madhu

By: sw. veet (francesco)

sw. veet (francesco) — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 07:12:14 +0000

In my previous comment the words between quotation marks are related to the Johari Window technique. Interesting is the heuristic result if this technique is applied to the transcendent laugh of a buddha.

I remember my embarrassment when Osho seemed to laugh at the ugliness of Nivedano. I was wondering what to laugh if I was in the drummer’s position.

I think the sense of humour needed to understand a joke is a question of method that we do not know to apply, there is not even time to do it, nothing to do with an algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic

Ciao,

By: Arpana

Arpana — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 06:41:10 +0000

“A young farm boy from Arkansas was sent to New York by his father to learn the undertaking business under the tutelage of the great Frank E. Campbell.
Some months later, the father visited his son in the big city. “Tell me,” he said, “have you learnt much?”
“Oh sure, Dad,” said the son. “I have learnt a lot. And it has been very interesting.”
“What was the most interesting thing you learnt?”
The son thought for a moment and then said, “Well, we did have one wild experience that taught me a lesson.”
“What was that?”
“Well,” said the son, “one day we got this phone call from the Taft Hotel. It seems that the housekeeper had checked one of the rooms and she discovered that a man and woman had died in their sleep on the bed and completely naked.”
“Wow!” said the father. “What did Mr. Campbell do?”
“Well, he put on his tuxedo and he had me put on my tuxedo. Then we were driven in one of his limousines to the Taft Hotel. The manager took us to the desk clerk who gave us the room number. Then the manager rode up with us in the elevator. We were silent because Mr. Campbell always believes in doing things with great dignity.”
“How marvellous!” exclaimed the father. “Then what happened?”
“Well, we came to this room. Mr. Campbell pushed the door open with his gold-tipped cane. He, the manager, and I walked in quietly. Sure enough, there on the bed was this naked couple lying on their backs.”
“And then what happened?” asked the father.
“Well, Mr Campbell saw an immediate problem. The man had a large erection.”
“And then what happened?” asked the father.
“Mr. Campbell, as usual, was up to the situation. He swung his gold-tipped cane and very stylishly whacked the prick.”
“And then what happened?” asked the father.
“Well, Dad,” said the son, “all hell broke loose. You see, we were in the wrong room!” ”

Osho

Philosophia Perennis, Vol. 1
Chapter 7
Chapter title: Awareness: The Master Key