WHEN BUDDHA LAUGHS
Pic.: Chetna Shetty S hri Uday Acharya, my good friend, has initiated a FB page and baptized it as ‘Buddha Laughed’. The very first time my eyes fell on this name, my heart just laughed! Strangely, I hadn't even read any content of it... Just the thought that the Buddha – the otherwise a serious holy-man – laughed made my lungs loosen-up a little, and I found my heart just laughing... I think, the idea of the laughing Buddha – with his laid-back hands and pot-belly – has come from the same fact: When you come to understand the simple truth behind the harshest realities of life, you do not have to prompt your heart to laugh... It just laughs. And, that laughter is the laughter of true joy and lightness, true freedom and acceptance. There is no pretense or ridicule. The carelessness has dissolved into carefreeness... The heart ‘knows’; hence laughs... Simply laughs... So, Udayji keeps sharing with us...