{"id":1991,"date":"2013-08-27T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2013-08-27T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:35:57","slug":"bubbles-of-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2013\/08\/27\/bubbles-of-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubbles of Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1879\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/Shri-Mataji-laughs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1879\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1879\" alt=\"Shri Mataji\" src=\"http:\/\/sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/Shri-Mataji-laughs-300x220.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/Shri-Mataji-laughs-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/Shri-Mataji-laughs.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shri Mataji<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>In all humour we should understand what this stupid thing called ego is. In all humour, not in seriousness, for I don&#8217;t want you to again feel guilty&#8230;. This is the art of living. This is the art of living a Sahaja yogi life. It is the art of living it, how with little few things you see how to\u00a0manage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now you must have seen how in my lectures I say quite serious things. But in your bubbles of laughter, it just settles down in your mind. That is how you should do it, because humour is one of the greatest things that push the thing through, makes the people understand, and it does not harm anyone. That is how things improve.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shri Mataji, 14 September, 2002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all humour we should understand what this stupid thing called ego is. In all humour, not in seriousness, for I don&#8217;t want you to again feel guilty&#8230;. This is the art of living. This is the art of living a Sahaja yogi life. It is the art of living it, how with little few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96,14],"tags":[286,312,654],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-96","category-quotes","tag-humour","tag-joy","tag-shri-mataji"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-w7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}