Teaching methods
The wise awaken us by bringing our dreams into sharp relief. They do this with the tools of humour, fiction, and fantasy. By skillfully treating the world as a theatre, the world is seen more clearly as the theatre it is. By exposing contradictions in our being and in our behaviour, delusion quickly comes to see itself.
Laughter gives strength. Strength gives confidence to laugh at increasingly dangerous and revealing truths. Before long, penetrating humour reveals a little too much for comfort. It ceases to entertain. The ego begins to see the joke of its own existence. Given fuel, this spark may kindle the spiritual mind.