When you begin your day in laughter and love, your life gets divinely enlivened. True prayer is laughing in the morning both from outside and from deep inside.
Laughter comes from the centre of our Being, from the core of our heart. Our belly is so full of laughter that the laughter permeates every cell in our body. True laughter is true prayer. When you laugh, the whole of nature laughs with you. It echoes and resounds and makes life worthwhile. When things go all right, everybody can laugh, but when everything falls apart, and yet you laugh, that is evolution and growth. Nothing in life is more worthy than your laughter.
Never lose it. Events come and go. Some are pleasant, and others, unpleasant. There is some area deep in you that is left untouched. Hold on to what is untouched. Then you will be able to keep laughing.
Sometimes you laugh just to avoid thinking or to avoid looking at yourself. But when you see and feel within that life is present and intense every moment, nothing can bother you or touch you. That laughter is authentic.
You might have observed babies, six months or one year old. When they laugh, their whole body is jumping and bouncing. Every cell in the body is laughing. That is enlightenment. That laughter is innocent, pure, without inhibitions.
Opinions are the impressions we make on our minds.
If we have one experience repeated four or five times, then, for the rest of our lives we tend to see life through those same experiences. We have not learnt how to retain that innocence so that our minds are not imprinted with definite opinions. We need to be able to see things as they are.
When life's essence blooms from within, there is true laughter akin to godliness. Godliness is a feeling of belonging. We all belong to one another. Laughter opens us up, opens the heart. And anytime we don't feel up to that innocence, what do we do?
"I feel tense, I don't feel that innocent or free. What do I do?"You can attend to several layers of your own existence. First, the body. See if you have rested, eaten, and had some exercise.
Then attend to the breath. Breath has its own rhythm. Every mood of the mind has a definite rhythm in the breath. By attending to the rhythm in the breath, mind and body can be elevated.
Then look at the concepts and opinions that hover in the mind. Good, bad, right, wrong, should do, shouldn't do, all these could bind you. Observe the thoughts. And then observe the feelings. Every thought is associated with some sensation, some feeling. Observe the sensation and feeling in the body.
Observe the rhythm in emotions. We commit the same old mistakes. I never say, "Don't make mistakes". I say, "Make at least some new mistakes". The pattern, the rhythm in emotion is the same; situations are different. It is like hanging the same coat on different hooks. You have the same pattern of emotions but you hang it on different causes, people, circumstances, situations. The peak of any emotion will lead you ultimately to yourself to your centre by helping you take off to space.
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