While slowed breathing can bring you to enlightenment, so too can uncontrollable laughter.

IN FACT, i have found laughter to literally be the most potent medicine.

If you can dominate your mind enough to trigger pure honest laughter, you can cure the blues, alleviate a stomache or headache, you can shrug off pain and exhaustion under the effects of genuine laughter.

Herein lies a potential connection to the key to happiness thread; laughter.

When you are laughing, you are still breathing, and chances are your lower abdominal muscles are contracting and relaxing very rapidly, which more or less forces your lungs to inhale and exhale at the same frequency.


You have attained enlightenment in stillness and silence, perhaps you might try laughing your way there.

A good way to shed the ego; to help eliminate the " *I* had to be silent because *I* didnt want *anyone else* to hear *me* "
To achieve enlightenment through laughter, right in front of a crowd.


ah... awareness... yes... i love that concept. Awareness, to me, is the very fabric of reality itself, not even quantifyable. awareness, consciousness, perception, all being essentially the same thing are the "programs" that run the universe.

without awareness, or some sort of mental faculty, the unvierse would stand still. even light would not move. essentially, movement, interaction, action, reaction, all are dependant on mental energies.

Light would stand still if not for the idea that it could move, rocks would fall apart at the smallest quantifyable 'component' or "building block". Nothing in the universe would make sense to us if we were to get a glimpse of a universe without awareness, or some sort of mental ability; physics would be alien to us.


Has anyone ever played with the falling sand game or burning sand?

let's say each pixel represents the smallest quantifyable building block of our universe, and the sand program itself is the universe.

WITHOUT the computer there to compute this stuff, the universe would not exist.


Computer represents mind
Burning sand represents the universe or reality
each pixel represents physical matter and energy.


Therefore... i lost it all. i forgot where i was going with this, people startted IMing me and i got caught up in conversations! lol i'll finish this some other time, maybe.