Take It Really Seriously

Joke team at work. Still from Bhagwan - My Dance is Complete (1989)

Joke team at work. Still from Bhagwan - My Dance is Complete (1989)

Joke team at work. Still from Bhagwan - My Dance is Complete (1989)

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)

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

	Take It Really Seriously       cover: A Revolutionary Insight into Jokes title page: A Revolutionary Insight into Jokes // A Backside Book of Jokes Year of publication : 1998-12 Reprint : 1999 (twice) Publisher : Grace Publishing, London, UK ISBN 0-9534-8450-5 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 688 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : First edition. Copyright © 1998 Osho International Foundation. Size : 220 x 176 x 47 mm Compilation and Editing: Sw Anand Vimal Typesetting and Design: Sw Prem Prabhu Photography: Osho Photo Services Production: Sw Prem Prabhu "Laugh heartily both of you, before and after; but don't disturb the neighbors!" OSHO Dedicated to Swami Sardar Gurudayal Singh. The man with the loudest laugh! "The only man in history who laughs before the joke is told. What a trust! You should learn trust from Sardar Gurudayal Singh." OSHO Published by: Grace Publishing, 14, Asylum Road, London, SE15 2RL Printer: Thomson Press (India) Ltd. Introduction: Sw Anand Vimal, Osho Commune, Pune, India Prologue: The psychology of jokes (Hari Om Tat Sat ch.12 q.1) Starter (The Goose Is Out ch.10 q.4) Epilogue: The Gorilla Story (a compilation of several lectures) Page III. Page VI. Page XI. Page XVI. Page 1. Page 678. Epilogue Page 679. The Gorilla Story Page 681. Page 684. On Osho Page 685. Page 686. Jokes compiled from these book titles Page 687. The Joke-team and Sardarji
	Take It Really Seriously . . . cover: A Revolutionary Insight into Jokes title page: A Revolutionary Insight into Jokes // A Backside Book of Jokes Year of publication : 1998 Publisher : Grace Publishing, London, UK ISBN 0-9534-8451-3 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 688 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes :
	Take It Really Seriously . . . cover: A Revolutionary Insight into Jokes title page: A Revolutionary Insight into Jokes // A Backside Book of Jokes Year of publication : 2005 Publisher : Grace Publishing, Gunma, Japan ISBN 0-9534-8450-5 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 688 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : As the 1998 edition, except: Published by: Grace Publishing, 4-10-17 Aramaki, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan 371-0044 Size : 219 x 172 x 55 mm

table of contents

edition 1999 chapter titles		source of the compilation
	Prologue: The Psychology of Jokes	Hari Om Tat Sat ~ 12, q.1 (extract?)
	Starter	The Goose Is Out ~ 10, q.4 (extract?)
1	Jewish	n/a
2	Marriage	n/a
3	Children	n/a
4	Politics	n/a
5	Sex	n/a
6	Religion	n/a
7	Animals	n/a
8	Doctors	n/a
9	Lawyers	n/a
10	Salesmen	n/a
11	Maxims	n/a
12	Nations	n/a
13	Polish	n/a
14	Black	n/a
15	Irish	n/a
16	English	n/a
17	Scots	n/a
18	Cannibals	n/a
19	Cops	n/a
20	Farmers	n/a
21	French	n/a
22	Italian	n/a
23	Greek	n/a
24	Russian	n/a
25	Chinese	n/a
26	Showbiz	n/a
27	Wild West	n/a
28	Nuts and Other Fruit-cakes	n/a
29	Shrinks	n/a
30	The World of Osho	n/a
	Epilogue: The Gorilla Story	n/a