Lessons about Spirituality from Humour

Humour can teach us about spirituality.

In the world of humour, like the spiritual world, an alternative type of logic runs through things that is fundamentally different from the logic of rational analysis. Each world spins with a different structure, nature, and set of laws in terms of what will "fly" and "not fly".

In order to be funny and thrive in Humour Land, similar to being spiritual and thriving in Spiritual Land, one needs to grow in intuitively grasping how to run cooperatively with that world's laws, nature, and nuanced intuition which are different from those in Logical Analysis Land. What works in grasping one plane of reality will not, in and of itself, help in grasping the other.

Even if pure motives are present, one cannot use rationality and scientific logic to grasp spiritual logic, let alone humour-logic (or vice versa). In fact, trying to intellectually dissect a joke to understand it is like dissecting a frog. It will kill it in the process. Simiarly, trying to use one's mental hands to tightly grasp something spiritual, like a paradox (e.g. one needs to give up one's life in order to save it), can end up suffocating a first-hand experience of it.