Spirituality & humour?

[Geoff-Allen]

Hope you are all well & enjoying your time spent here - there are far worse things you could be up to!

So ...

Do you think of humor when you are considering your spirituality?

I did a quick Google search for - spiritual practice humor -

Here's the first I clicked on -

There are people who believe spiritual practices are serious business. They see them as spiritual disciplines, and are convinced spiritual life needs to be disciplined. Some people almost believe the best spiritual practices for us are nearly painful, filled with struggle. It is almost as if they they think we are not being serious enough if our practices are not painful sacrifices.

I believe in the sacred power of joy and humor.

Too often, we want to be so serious about spiritual life we rob it of its joy. Spiritual life is a celebration, an awareness of the amazing potential of every moment. It does not mean everything is a joke. Our lives are filled with tragedies and injustices. Spiritual life inspires us to continue, to keep seeing the wonder in the midst of struggles and pain.

Comes from this site -

Humor as a Spiritual Practice

All the best!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

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All the best!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

 

[sun rise]

Do you think of humor when you are considering your spirituality?
...I believe in the sacred power of joy and humor.

I do as well. One poem from "Renderings of Hafiz" by Daniel Ladinsky is:

“TRIPPING OVER JOY

What is the difference
Between your experience of Existence
And that of a saint?

The saint knows
That the spiritual path
Is a sublime chess game with God

And that the Beloved
Has just made such a Fantastic Move

That the saint is now continually
Tripping over Joy
And bursting out in Laughter
And saying, “I Surrender!”

Whereas, my dear,
I am afraid you still think
You have a thousand serious moves.”

 

[sun rise]

And

Laughter

What is laughter? What is laughter?
It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!
It is the sun poking its sweet head out
From behind a cloud
You have been carrying too long,
Veiling your eyes and heart.

It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure That is your Real body- called Truth.

It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flight
To embrace everyone and everything in this world.

Laughter is the polestar
Held in the sky by our Beloved,
Who eternally says,

"Yes, dear ones, come this way,
Come this way toward Me and Love!

Come with your tender mouths moving
And your beautiful tongues conducting songs
And with your movements - your magic movements
Of hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!

Know that to God's Eye,
All movement is a Wondrous Language,
And Music - such exquisite, wild Music!"

O what is laughter, Hafiz?
What is this precious love and laughter
Budding in our hearts?

It is the glorious sound
Of a soul waking up!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

What is laughter? What is laughter?
It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!
It is the sun poking its sweet head out
From behind a cloud
You have been carrying too long,
Veiling your eyes and heart.

Thanks for sharing - now if we could just get more people to laugh at their humanness in a non-negative way we'd be cruising!

Cheers!