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Joke team at work. Still from Bhagwan - My Dance is Complete (1989)
- A big book with a lot of Osho's jokes told during his discourses. The book has been compiled by Sw Anand Vimal, who was on the team to find the jokes. They were then typed out, a stack given to Osho, and during the discourse Osho would choose. (These were mostly the only notes Osho used.)
- Back cover:
- "... I am introducing laughter as a meditation, because nothing makes you so total as laughter; nothing makes you stop your thinking as laughter does. Just for a moment you are no more a mind. Just for a moment you are no more in time. Just for a moment you have entered into another space where you are total and whole and healed." - (from YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose ch.21 q.1)
- Front and back flap:
- The whole science of the joke is that it takes you toward a certain height of expectation, step by step, and then suddenly there is such a turn that you had never expected. Your whole tension that was gathering explodes into laughter. It will be better to tell you a joke ...
- Danny discovered that his wife was cheating with another guy, so he went to the guy's wife and told her about it.
- "I know what we will do!" she said. "Let us take revenge on them." So they went to a motel and had revenge on them.
- She said, "Let us have more revenge."
- So they kept having revenge and more revenge.
- Finally Danny said, "That's enough revenge. I don't have any more hard feelings."
- If the end comes in such a way that you were not expecting -- you could not have figured out that it will end in such a way -- it brings a sudden laughter. It is a release of tension. - (from The New Dawn ch.23 q.2)
- The whole science of the joke is that it takes you toward a certain height of expectation, step by step, and then suddenly there is such a turn that you had never expected. Your whole tension that was gathering explodes into laughter. It will be better to tell you a joke ...
- Dedication:
- "The sense of humour should be directed towards oneself --
- it is a very great thing to laugh at oneself and he who can laugh at himself
- gradually becomes full of concern and compassion for others.
- In the entire world no event, no subject, invites laughter like oneself. - OSHO (from A Cup of Tea, #43)
- notes
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- (unknown)
- number of discourses/chapters
- 30 + Prologue + Starter + Epilogue
- (see table of contents)
editions
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Take It Really Seriously cover: A Revolutionary Insight into Jokes
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table of contents
| edition 1999 chapter titles |
source of the compilation | |
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| Prologue: The Psychology of Jokes | Hari Om Tat Sat ~ 12, q.1 (extract?) | |
| Starter | The Goose Is Out ~ 10, q.4 (extract?) | |
| 1 | Jewish | unknown |
| 2 | Marriage | unknown |
| 3 | Children | unknown |
| 4 | Politics | unknown |
| 5 | Sex | unknown |
| 6 | Religion | unknown |
| 7 | Animals | unknown |
| 8 | Doctors | unknown |
| 9 | Lawyers | unknown |
| 10 | Salesmen | unknown |
| 11 | Maxims | unknown |
| 12 | Nations | unknown |
| 13 | Polish | unknown |
| 14 | Black | unknown |
| 15 | Irish | unknown |
| 16 | English | unknown |
| 17 | Scots | unknown |
| 18 | Cannibals | unknown |
| 19 | Cops | unknown |
| 20 | Farmers | unknown |
| 21 | French | unknown |
| 22 | Italian | unknown |
| 23 | Greek | unknown |
| 24 | Russian | unknown |
| 25 | Chinese | unknown |
| 26 | Showbiz | unknown |
| 27 | Wild West | unknown |
| 28 | Nuts and Other Fruit-cakes | unknown |
| 29 | Shrinks | unknown |
| 30 | The World of Osho | unknown |
| Epilogue: The Gorilla Story | unknown | |
