"I have heard about three Chinese mystics, no one knows their names, they are known as" the Three Saints who laughed "because they never did anything else, they just laughed, they went from one city to another, laughing, they stayed in the market square laughing. All the people in the market surrounded them, people came, stores closed, and customers forgot the reason that had brought them in. Those three people were really beautiful, laughing, with their bellies shaking, and it was contagious: the others started. Then the whole market laughed, the atmosphere of the market changed, and if someone said to them, "Talk to us a bit," they would reply, "We have nothing to say. We just laughed and changed the atmosphere. "Just a few moments before it was an unpleasant place where people thought only of money, where they longed for money, where greed reigned, money was the only thing that mattered. three crazy people came and laughed and changed the whole atmosphere of the market, so they all stopped being customers, they forgot they had gone shopping or selling, nobody was covetous, they started to laugh and dance around those three crazy people. For a few seconds a new world was opening.
They traveled all over China, from one place to another, from one town to another, just helping people laugh. The sad, the angry, the greedy, the jealous, all began to laugh with them. And many could perceive the key: you can transform everything.
Then, in one town, it happened that one of the three died. The townspeople got together and said, "Now they will have problems, we'll see if they laugh, their friend is dead, they have to cry." But when they arrived, the two were dancing, laughing and celebrating his death. The people in the town told them, "This is too much, it's bad manners, when a man is dead it's a desecration to laugh and dance." They answered, "You do not know what has happened!" The three of us were always thinking about who would die first, this man has won, he has defeated us, and we laugh with him all his life. laugh, we must enjoy, we must celebrate, this is the only possible God for a man who has laughed all his life, and if we do not laugh, he will laugh at us and think, "You stupid! new to the trap? "For us he is not dead, how can laughter die, how can life die?
When the body was going to be burned, the people of the town said, "We are going to bathe him as prescribed by the ritual." But those two friends answered, "No, our friend said," Do not perform any ritual and do not change my clothes or give me a bath, just place me as I am on the funeral pyre. "So we have to follow his instructions" .
And then, suddenly, something incredible happened. When they placed the body over the fire, that old man had played his last joke. Under his clothes he had hidden fireworks and suddenly, diwali! Then the whole town started to laugh. The two crazy friends started dancing and the whole town started dancing. It was not a death; it was a new life. "Osho, Yoga the Science of the Soul, volume 4.
Look for Osho's meditation methods in the Book of Secrets, which consists of 6 volumes and in the orange book.
Hilarious story. Thank you for sharing :)