The laugh button

[saintbryan]

I found this in my (offline) journal from last May, and thought I'd share it:

Biking back from the park, I considered the practice of laughter. It is apparently as good for your health as exercise, so I hear. I began to laugh. Practicing laughter. Forcing laughter. Inducing laughter.

It is funny that we (I) have a belief that one must

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[iamsquid]

The first part is the basis of laughing meditation. Look it iup, its fairly interesting. The first time I tried it I thought it was lame, shortly thereafter I found it to be quite worthwhile.

The second part is something that I think about constantly. The bottom line is: so what? Regardless of physical limitations and physiological processes I am still having this thing called experience. Understanding this better could either be interpreted as spoiling the process or as appreciating it that much more.

[saintbryan]

I like that laughing meditation idea.

With the second part, I totally agree. I liked this old journal entry of mine because what I was experiencing was such a great example of opposites explosively uniting: The total seriousness of existential crisis + indiscriminate laughter.

I am now learning that forms, even if they are "illusions" in relation to a higher plane, are still real forms, or at least "real illusions" on their own plane. Even if you're experiencing a fantasy, it's still a real experience, which has something to say about your true will.

[iamsquid]

Exactly. Whether or not there is anything transcendant piloting the machines of meat and goo is irrelevant. The individual is capable of interactive experience, that is what is relevant. Experience then becomes the medium for what could be the ultimate art.

When we are no longer restricted by the idea that anything matters, so do we shed the restrictions on what subject matter after which we may model our experience - and if we're clever enough (or lucky enough, or some combination thereof), we can sculpt it into something beautiful.