They talk about three amazing saints. They moved from one city to another and laughed. They usually stopped at the market square and laughed with deep, booming laughter. Their stomachs shook and tears rolled from their eyes. It was so contagious that everyone present also began to laugh.
The fun spread like lightning. People ran towards them from all sides and, just looking at them, began to laugh. It was a real miracle. Just a few minutes ago there was a completely different atmosphere here. Tired people argued and bargained. Everyone was only interested in money. And suddenly everything changed! People forgot that they had come here to buy and sell, they laughed and danced around these three crazy people.
The Laughing Saints traveled all over China, from one place to another, from one village to another, just making people laugh. In a few seconds they opened up a new world to people. Suddenly, in one village, one out of three died.
The villagers thought: “Now they won’t be able to laugh. Their friend died; they must cry." But when they arrived, they saw that these two were dancing, laughing, celebrating. The villagers decided: “Well, this is too much! It's rude. When a person dies, it is obscene to laugh and dance.”
But the two laughing said:
“We wondered among ourselves which of us would die first.” And this man won. All our lives we laughed with him. We cannot see him off on his final journey any other way. We must laugh, we must rejoice and celebrate. Otherwise, he will laugh at us from the other side and think: “What fools! We're trapped again!
And then the unexpected happened. When the body was placed on the funeral pyre and people began to feel sad, colorful firecrackers and fireworks, which were hidden in the clothes of the deceased, suddenly began to explode and pop. These two crazy friends danced, and the whole village danced with them, laughing through their tears. Because death is an illusion, and illusion is death.
A young guy, who never lost heart and laughed very contagiously, also left this village along with the two laughing saints!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru