Laughter feels like a thin layer between the dual and nondual!

[MarkusSweden]

What is your relationship to laughter? 

For me it feels like something important that I welcome in everyday life, specially in social contexts. 

It unites, lower stress levels, friction between different wants and needs smooths out, people smile to each other etcetera.

When a good joke comes around and everybody cracks, that's almost a non dual happening, like a feeling that we are the same spirit, there is belonging attached to laughter/humour.

It like humour are like a tool to pull duality closer to its non dual source. It puts the ego to rest in some degree.  

However, when I spend time in solitude with deep connection with the source, when I have that meditative feeling, when there is peace and happiness(not a laughing happiness, but a feeling of joy), then I have no interest in humour.  

Then Humour/laughter is more like a stressful thing, like a reminder of duality/ego, a reminder of the absurdity and irregularities of reality. 

And that's disturbing when you are at complete ease and feel like everything is whole, complete and perfect as it is.

Humour/laugher feels like an interruption from the feelings of love/beauty that pure awareness is accompanied by. 

Anyone agree with me, feel free to elaborate.  

 

 

Edited February 14, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[Patang]

2 minutes ago, MarkusSweden said:

What is your relations to laughter? 

laughter is a human reaction to pleasure, while for an enlightened being, it is a way which pure joy is expressed.

[Shin]

[Joseph Maynor]

I think you’re on to something here.  People who don’t laugh enough take things too seriously, evidencing a dense Ego.  Conversely, people who laugh too much are often using humor as an Ego defense-mechanism.  So both extremes are probably dysfunctional — no humor and too much of it.  The most self-realized person likely has drawn a natural mean between these two extremes.

Edited February 14, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[MarkusSweden]

Just now, Joseph Maynor said:

I think you’re in to something here.  People who don’t laugh enough take things to seriously.  People who laugh too much are usually using humor as an Ego defense-mechanism.

Very good point! 

 

[snowleopard]

@MarkusSweden   You gotta be joking !

[Patang]

6 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

I think you’re on to something here.  People who don’t laugh enough take things to seriously.  People who laugh too much are usually using humor as an Ego defense-mechanism.  So both extremes are probably dysfunctional — no humor and too much of it.  The most realized person has likely drawn a natural mean between these two extremes.

for humans, the two extremes for laughter, is between fear and love (as perceived by humans).

[MarkusSweden]

3 minutes ago, snowleopard said:

@MarkusSweden   You gotta be joking !

lol

Now we're talking meta-humor!  

Edited February 14, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[snowleopard]

@MarkusSweden  Seriously though, there is some eliciting of uproarious laughter when the exclusive self-identities lose their grip, once the terror subsides.  But that could be another self-identity, as what else would possibly be laughing? The Cosmic Joker?   Verrry mysterrrious ...

[MarkusSweden]

@snowleopard hm, I was thinking that laughter might be a result when the mind "cracks" so to speak. 

If you think about it, every time when you have an active mind(duality), in a social context for example, you are focusing and concentrating on the world(surrounding)...then if something is said or happening that abrupt the mind in a way that the thought process become discontinued, a little gap in the mind so to speak aka laughter.

If there is no plausible or coherent next thought to a given present thought, the mind might crack for a milli second and get a taste of "no mind" which might result in laughter, that's why we like it so much, because it's a temporarily relief from the state of mind. A millisecond of pure awareness before the mind get what happened/was said.  

On the other hand, when you are already in a "no mind" state, maybe you are just beyond space and time listening to your favourite music with a glas of wine, then laughter might be disturbance for you, because laughter reminds you that it had its origin, its start from a place of mind. 

Is this just mental masturbation and too theoretical, or do you find anything valuable in my gibberish?  

Edited February 14, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[snowleopard]

@MarkusSweden  Again, it's a mystery to me what that's about ... perhaps just the sheer relief of not having to keep up the pretense anymore? Your theory may be as good as any other.

[Torkys]

I started laughing alot in the past weeks.

I realized alot of things, laughter is my reaction to absurdity.

[cetus]

That laugh says it all!

[Slade]

“Laughter is the language of the gods.”

[Shin]

4 minutes ago, Slade said:

“Laughter is the language of the gods.”

Then what is my power ?

Clearly not being able to create 5-meo out of thin air 

[MarkusSweden]

@Shin

[Dodo]

2 hours ago, Shin said:

Then what is my power ?

Clearly not being able to create 5-meo out of thin air 

Wait.. I thought we had it in our brains  and can get activated through meditation 

We're all holding!  

Edited February 14, 2018 by Dodo