What is laughter? What are jokes? Osho gives the answer & tells the story of the birth of Zen. "Laughter is the only ordinary experience when you are no longer a mind, and I use it to give you glimpses of no-mind, of meditation, of a transcendence of mind. Perhaps I am the first man in the whole history of mankind who has been using jokes as a preparation for meditation. Jesus would not laugh; Buddha will not laugh; Lao Tzu is not heard to have ever laughed... They were serious people, and they were doing serious work! It will be good to understand a small incident which began the tradition of Zen. Those are the people who understand — the only people on the earth, a small stream who have understood the meaning of laughter because their origin is in laughter..." This video is available for translation as part of the 'OSHO TALKS Video Translation Project'. Join the project as a translator at: www.oshotalks.info OSHO International Foundation - http