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AFTER
60.000 YEARS OF
EXPERIMENTS
FINALLY
WE CAN
CONDENSE
THE WISDOM
OF
THE EAST
AND WEST
INTO A FEW
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IT
CONTAINS NO
MYSTICISMS,
MIRACLES
OR GREAT GURUS
100% RAW AND
NAKED TRUTH
(and
extremely sexy)
PROLOGUE
We
are born, we die, and in-between we get pissed off a lot. There
doesn't seem to be much to be cheerful about... But we have the
fantastic possibility to laugh. And by laughing, we see the world
from a fresh perspective.
We didn't choose our parents, the place where we were born, our
body, but we can choose to laugh. Laughing differentiates us from
animals and machines. Laughing make us equal to the gods.
Life holds a marvellous secret. Life is a question: "What is
the meaning of life?" Laughing is the way to find the answer.
Laughing is the answer.
Humanistic philosophies are divided into two categories. There are
serious philosophers who think that we don't suffer enough and suggest
that we do ourselves a little harm, even on our own. And there are
not-so-serious philosophers who think that spaghetti is pretty good,
but could be improved. There have always been few of these comical
philosophers and serious people have always tried to put them down.
Nevertheless,
their ideas never perished. The Magical Greek Papyri, which have
come down to us, tell that God created the seven planets while laughing.
The teachings of Democritus and Epicurus consider laughing sacred.
The soothsayer Calchas died laughing. In the Eleusinian mysteries,
Demeter, the matriarchal Mother Goddess, having reached Eleusis
accompanied by a cortege of old women, bursts out laughing, in this
way communicating that laughter is a sacred part of ritual.
The priests of the Mysteries of Cybele ended processions by bursting
into merry, uncontrollable laughter. In Rome, the Luperci would
laugh when the priest touched their foreheads with a bloody knife.
There were jolly rabbis among the Jews and the first miracle of
Jesus was changing water into wine. With all that excellent wine,
is it possible that nobody started to tell jokes? It seems also
that when St. Francis talked with birds, he was really making fun
of men who couldn't understand what he was trying to tell them.
There are great teachers such as Tanzan and Kunga Legpa; the first
was famous for his caustic remarks, the second had people snickering
over his scurrilous jokes during his sermons.
Today, finally, no one can deny that laughing is good. But there
are still those who think that serious problems have to be faced
in a serious way.
What a bunch of B.S.!
Anyone who has a serious problem should make it become a problem
worth laughing about. If you act so serious, your problems will
become even more serious. What do you have to gain?
Therefore, first of all, whatever troubles you might have, the first
thing you must do, the most important and decisive thing, is to
try to find what it is laughable about your problem. And if a politician
tells you that he is a serious person, don't vote for him. And if
your doctor doesn't make you laugh, find yourself another doctor.
IS A DISEASE MAKING YOU SUFFER?
DON'T WORRY!!!
YOU
HAVE
FORMIDABLE MEDICINE
IN YOUR HANDS
READING
THESE PAGES
IS ALREADY A CURE!
(a fantastic cure)
FIRST
OF ALL DON'T TAKE THINGS SERIOUSLY.
DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU LAUGH THAT YOU GOT YOURSELF
A DISEASE WITH SUCH A STUPID NAME?
Find
me a disease with an intelligent name if you can.
Diseases hate people who do not take them seriously.
That is why they have chosen such grandiose names for themselves.
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