Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 More humor. Increase your face value by smiling ;-) Anat, we will have to agree to disagree on this one. I'd rather keep my smile and be healthy than be an uptight person who is dis-eased from dis-ease. Loose is the opposite of tight... lose is the opposite of win. In my mind, there are no winners or losers in life... it's not a contest. I suppose if you think of winning as a sense of well being, then we can all be winners if we feel good inside. I suspect that once again we are the victims of bad cross-language communication and lack of face to face contact, some of the absurdities of this medium. We are not talking about carelessness when we talk about being relaxed and in good humor. We are not talking about neglect or laziness. If that is how you perceive it, we *do* have a communication problem. It is ALL nonsense, Anat. All of it. And that is the key to enlightenment. Humor does not diminish the sacredness of life, it enhances it. In many traditions there are sacred clowns whose job it is to dramatize how ridiculous we really are. In other traditions, ministers, priests, rabbis, gurus and masters use humor to illustrate the lessons they share. Perhaps one of my favorite teachers is the Zen Master Shih-te, who is often shown in paintings as disheveled, laughing complicitly with nature. http://www.sivananda.org/misc/humor.htm http://www.sacredgarden.org/medicine.html http://www.inspiredinside.com/humor/humor_newage.htm http://newage.about.com/religion/newage/cs/humor_menu/ http://www.tftb.com/deify/newage.htm http://www.ecauldron.com/humor16.php -- Blessings, Crow " Look for Rainbows in the Darkness " -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2001 Report Share Posted May 11, 2001 thanks crow for sharing your ideas and links about humor. i did think we have a communication problem because of language. may be we do not define " seriousness " the same way... my mother language is Hebrew. it's difficult for me to accept that " All Is nonsense " . how come? to me " All has meaning " every thing has magic. and i do laugh a lot . i love to laugh. it's kind of depressing to think that All is nonsense, no? but may be it's pure Ego (seriousness) and i know that i have to learn more and grow. - (this also comes out of seriousness....the drive to improve) wishing you all the best in the world Anat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 12, 2001 Report Share Posted May 12, 2001 I'd never believe in a God who can't laugh or dance! love connie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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