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taken by the society... and that ego is absolutely going to be taken by death. Youwill go as you came: empty-handed you come, empty-handed you go -- the egois just an illusion in between.That ego is afraid of death. Once you understand that you are not going to die --only the ego, only the disease -- you are ready. You are ready for baptism.Question 4YOU SAY THAT SERIOUSNESS IS A DISEASE. WHENEVER I REMEMBERMYSELF I FEEL SERIOUS, SO WHAT SHOULD I DO?Don't get serious about it. Let it be so, and laugh. If you can laugh at yourself,everything is okay. People laugh at others, but never laugh at themselves. It hasto be learned. If you can laugh at yourself, seriousness is already gone. It cannotmake its abode within you if you are capable of laughing at yourself.In Zen monasteries every monk has to laugh. The first thing in the morning to dois to laugh, the very first thing. The moment the monk becomes aware that he isno longer asleep, he has to jump out of bed, stand in a posture like a buffoon, likea circus joker, and start laughing, laughing at himself. There cannot be any betterbeginning of the day.Laughing at oneself kills the ego and you are more transparent, more light, whenyou move in the world. And if you have laughed at yourself, then others'laughter toward you won't disturb you. In fact they are simply cooperating, theyare doing the same thing that you were doing. You will feel happy.To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laughat yourself -- about your seriousness and things like that. You can get seriousabout seriousness. Then instead of one, you have created two diseases. Then youcan get serious about that also, and you can go on and on. There is no end to it; itcan go on AD NAUSEAM.So take hold of it from the very beginning. The moment you feel you are serious,laugh about it and look for where the seriousness is. Laugh, give a good laugh,close the eyes and look for where it is. You will not find it. It exists only in abeing who cannot laugh.A more unfortunate situation cannot be conceived, a poorer being cannot beconceived of, than the man who cannot laugh at himself. So start the morning bylaughing at yourself, and whenever you can find a moment in the day when youhave nothing to do, have a good laugh. For no particular reason -- just becausethe whole world is so absurd, just because the way you are is so absurd. There isno need to find any particular reason, The whole thing is so absurd that one hasto laugh.Let the laughter be a belly laughter, not a head-thing. One can laugh from thehead: then it is dead. From the head everything is dead; the head is absolutelymechanical. You can laugh from the head: then your head will create thelaughter, but it will not go deep in the belly to the HARA. It will not go to yourCome Follow To You Vol 1Osho