Who Is Humourous?

[FirstglimpseOMG]

If I laugh at a movie or joke or a just plain funny real-life situation, is it my higher self that is amused?

If I laugh at an old lady with groceries wiping out on the sidewalk ice is it my little ego that is amused?

Can you split an emotion into different facets like that? Is humour an emotion? 

If I'm understanding that joy and love and peace and contentment and wonder and enthusiasm are all 'devine by default', and hate and loathing and jealousy and irritation and anger and frustration are pretty much all man-made (mind-made?) crap, then where along the spectrum does amusement, a sense of humour, lie? ..& once again, does it depend what you're laughing about?

And for that matter, who is funny? Who is being funny when one's mind is terrifically amused at something hilarious that it came up with all by itself?  

I'm feeling that healthy, not-nasty laughter and a tendency towards being easily amused or amusing falls on the higher self end of experience and creation. (I think..)

What do you think, or do you ponder this?

[Steph1988]

Maybe it is part of a realization that we don't know why we are here and what the hell we are ultimately doing and thus seeing the potential absurdity in everything.

[Loreena]

A person who is havin fun and makes jokes about himself or others or a situation so that everyone can have a fun time is a genuinely humorous person and is trying to make everyone happy, there is nothing wrong in doing it. 

But a person who mocks at others or makes fun for his own entertainment but at the expense of others' distress and despair thus offending them intentionally is not being humorous but rather sadistic. 

Your joy and love should not cause distress to others. If it does, it's not genuine and therefore cannot belong to a higher self !!

 

As Seneca put it

" You must never hurt your friend even in jest !"

Edited March 12, 2017 by Loreena

[FirstglimpseOMG]

@brovakhiin Hiya. I'm not sure of anything really. I'm intensely curious though, and over the last year I've been paying attention to my mind & body more than ever, and have noticed that joy, exhiliaration, love, enthusiasm, bewilderment, wonder, contentment, peacefulness, compassion (all that good positive stuff that makes life "So Freakin' Awesome") seems to arise without thought, without the mind having much of anything to do with those blissful feelings. I've been watching, and have also noticed that anger, frustration, resentment, jealousy, irritation, lack of patience or anxiety, any feelings of lack, etc., etc., have been pretty much 'thought up'.  The more you watch, it seems the more transparent your 'personality' becomes. The way Ekhart puts it, the ego cannot exist under the light of awareness. 

Anyway, if you manage to embrace the more 'being' than 'doing' thang for a while (I've always been lazy, so this comes naturally), you may notice that when love and joy and peace and happiness arise, your mind had very little to do with it. The essence of what we are can seem to spill through us into the world if we just get the frig outa the way and let it.

@Loreena Nicely said and nicely quoted, makes sense, thanks. 

I suppose something like humour can be helpful or hurtful, depending on intent.