Laughter

Sense of humor has its own spirituality. If you cannot laugh you cannot understand life. If you cannot laugh you are not open. Laughter opens you towards existence. When you are not laughing, when you are sad and serious, you are closed; your doors, your windows are all closed. In laughter, heartfelt laughter, all your senses function at their optimum. You experience life entering you, touching you at the deepest core.

Laughter time:

1. After an intensive initial interview with Mulla Nasrudin, a psychiatrist have a written list of instructions and a weekly appointment card. A fortnight later he telephoned to the Mulla to enquire why he had failed to keep the next appointment.
   
   "WHY. DOCTOR," protested Nasrudin, "YOUR INSTRUCTIONS INCLUDED ONE THAT SAID I HAD TO AVOID PEOPLE WHO IRRITATED ME!"
   
   
2. There is a Saturday night shoot-out in the O.K. Saloon, and the air is thick with lead bullets.
   Suddenly, the doors swing open, and in walks a man who strides straight across the room and up to the bar. Immediately, all the shooting stops.
   The barman pops his head up from behind the counter. "Friend," he says, "that took real courage to walk through those blazing guns without even looking left or right!"
   
   "Not at all," replies the man, looking around, casually. "You see, I owe money to everyone here!"
   
   
3. When old Mulla Nasrudin was asked why he talked to himself, he replied: "IT IS BECAUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE, I LIKE TO TALK TO A SMART MAN, AND IN THE SECOND PLACE, BECAUSE I LIKE TO HEAR A SMART MAN TALK."
   
   
4. The landlord sent a stiff letter to his tenant, Mulla Nasrudin: "My rent is considerably overdue and I must ask you to send on some money."
   
   Mulla Nasrudin's reply was swift: "I don't see why I should pay your rent -- I can't pay my own."
   
   
5. A young mother was looking at a toy for her small child. "Isn't this awfully complicated for him?" she asked Mulla Nasrudin, the salesman.
   
   "That, madam," replied the Mulla, "is an educational toy, designed to prepare the child for life in today's world. Any way he puts it together is wrong."
   
   
6. "And at her request you gave up drinking, Mulla?"
   "Yes."
   "And you stopped smoking, for the same reason?"
   "I did."
   "And it was for her that you gave up dancing, card parties, and billiards?"
   "Absolutely."
   "Then why didn't you marry her?"
   "Well," said Mulla Nasrudin, "After all this reforming I realized I could do better."
   
   
7. Wishing to surprise her husband with a new wig she had just bought, the wife put it on and strolled unannounced into his office. "Do you think you could find a place in your life for a woman like me?" she asked sexily."Not a chance," he replied, "you remind me too much of my wife!"
   
   
8. I heard one day that Mulla Nasrudin had been caught by the police, so I went to see him in the jail. I asked him, "Mulla, how do you happen to be here? What happened?"
   He said, "Housebreaking, and my fault too."
   I asked, "And how was that?"
   He said, "I spent three months getting acquainted with the dog, and then I went and stepped on the cat."