Absolutely—and perhaps it’s only for them.
My whole approach to meditation is rooted in helping you stay non-serious. Why? Because most forms of meditation tend to make people too serious. And that seriousness can become a kind of spiritual disease—rigid, heavy, and joyless.
If your meditation doesn’t bring more laughter, more joy, more playfulness into your life, then it’s not for you. Discard it.
Meditate playfully, not seriously. When you enter the meditation hall, leave your serious face at the door—along with your shoes. Let meditation be fun. Fun is a deeply spiritual word. Seriousness is, in fact, irreligious.
If you want to return to your original, spontaneous, alive self, you’ll need to live sincerely—but not seriously. Turn your work into play. Turn duty into love. Duty is a dirty word—yes, a four-letter word.
Laughter is a gateway. The secret of a good joke is this: it builds tension through expectation—then something unexpected happens. The mind, which was gearing up for a logical conclusion, is caught off guard. The tension explodes into laughter. In that explosion, the mind stops. That is meditation.
When you laugh totally, deeply—from your belly—you experience a moment beyond mind and beyond time. Laughter is illogical, and that’s precisely why it’s so powerful. The logical mind can’t grasp it, so it lets go. In that letting go, silence enters.
A deep laugh is like a spiritual orgasm. The whole body is involved. You disappear. Only laughter remains. That’s real meditation.
Try this: sit alone in your room, close the door, and laugh for an hour. Laugh at yourself. Laugh at life. But learn to laugh. Because seriousness is not just a mistake—it’s a disease. Laughter is the cure.
Laughter brings lightness. It gives you wings. Life offers so many chances to laugh—you just need the sensitivity to notice them. And don’t just laugh—help others laugh too. Create laughter. Spread it. Cherish it. It’s a uniquely human gift.
Only humans can laugh. No animal shares this ability. That alone makes laughter sacred. To suppress it is to repress a vital part of being human.
Imagine a donkey laughing—it’s absurd, right? If a horse suddenly burst into laughter, you’d probably lose sleep forever. Animals don’t laugh because they don’t have the intelligence to. Laughter requires awareness. And the deeper the awareness, the deeper the laughter.
So if you can laugh, really laugh—you are human. If you cannot, you’re missing the mark. Laughter is a true sign of humanity.
Forget Aristotle’s claim that man is a rational animal. Have you seen humans lately? There’s not much rationality to be found. I say: man is a laughing animal.
Laughter shows you can see the absurdity of life. And to see the absurd is to be free from it.
In truth, laughter is one of the highest spiritual qualities. In deep laughter, the ego dissolves—just as it does in deep dance. When you truly laugh, you are not there as the observer. You are the laughter. You become it. And that is the taste of meditation.