A Rose Is a Rose
Is a Rose
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   June - July 1976
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
Osho Books — Darshan Diaries

    (A therapy group member says: I laughed a
    lot. I relaxed a lot. I felt some changes...)

    Very good. Changes are easy if you allow.
    Laughter is the most easy thing in the world if
    you allow, but it has become hard.

    People laugh very rarely, and even when they
    laugh it is not true. People laugh as if they are
    obliging somebody, as if they are fulfilling a
    certain duty. Laughter is fun. You are not
    obliging anybody! Just as with love... you are
    not obliging anybody. Love is fun. Laughter is
    fun. Life is fun. But somehow the idea has
    gone very deeply into the mind that you are
    fulfilling duties.

    You see a person and you smile. You smile
    for him. One should smile only for oneself. If
    others share, good. If nobody shares, good.
    But one should smile of one's own accord.
    One should not laugh to make somebody else
    happy, because if you are not happy, you
    cannot make anybody happy.

    Even if you are happy, it is very difficult to
    make somebody else happy because it
    depends on that somebody else as to whether
    he will accept it or not. One should simply
    laugh of one's own accord, and one should
    not wait for reasons to laugh. That too is
    absurd. Why wait for reasons? Life as it is
    should be enough of a reason to laugh...

                                                  – Osho
                     A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose, ch. 1
    A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Meigui shi meigui, jiushi meigui

    Chinese traditional:
    玫瑰是玫瑰，就是玫瑰

    Chinese simplified:
    玫瑰是玫瑰，就是玫瑰